Hurricane Katrina Research Bibliography - Colorado State University

Social Science Research Council 

Task Force on Katrina and Rebuilding the Gulf Coast 

Hurricane Katrina Research Bibliography 

Kai Erikson, Ph.D. 

Chair, SSRC Task Force on Katrina 

203-481-1450 

k.erikson@sbcglobal.net 

Lori Peek, Ph.D. 

Associate Chair, SSRC Task Force on Katrina 

970-491-6777 

lori.peek@colostate.edu 

July 2011

Hurricane Katrina Research Bibliography 

This bibliography includes reference information for reports, journal articles, book chapters, and 

books that explore the human effects of Hurricane Katrina. Citations are organized according to 

the following subject areas: children and schools; culture, tradition, and history; displaced 

persons; economic effects and employment; elderly; emergency preparedness, evacuation, and 

response; environmental effects; gender; health and health care; housing; media; post-disaster 

recovery; race and class; and research methods and ethical issues. The bibliography also includes 

authored books that discuss Katrina in general, edited books that cover a range of subjects related 

to the storm, reviews of books and films, special issues of scholarly journals, documentary films, 

and websites dedicated to Katrina. 

Contents: 

I. Children and Schools ............................................................................ 3 

II. Culture, Tradition, and History ........................................................... 16 

III. Displaced Persons ............................................................................... 18 

IV. Economic Effects and Employment .................................................... 23 

V. Elderly ................................................................................................. 26 

VI. Emergency Preparedness, Evacuation, and Response ........................ 28 

VII. Environmental Effects ......................................................................... 42 

VIII. Gender ................................................................................................. 45 

IX. Health and Health Care ....................................................................... 49 

X. Housing .............................................................................................. 65 

XI. Media ................................................................................................. 67 

XII. Post-Disaster Recovery ....................................................................... 71 

XIII. Race and Class .................................................................................... 82 

XIV. Research Methods and Ethical Issues ................................................. 94 

XV. General Books/Edited Volumes/Overview Articles ........................... 96 

XVI. Reviews ............................................................................................. 102 

XVII. Special Issues of Journals .................................................................. 103 

XVIII. Documentary Films ........................................................................... 104 

XIX. Select Websites ................................................................................. 107 

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Children and Schools 

Abramson, David and Richard Garfield. 2006. On the Edge: Children and Families Displaced by 

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Face a Looming Medical and Mental Health Crisis. A 

Report of the Louisiana Child and Family Health Study. New York: National Center for 

Disaster Preparedness and Operation Assist, Columbia University Mailman School of 

Public Health. http://www.ncdp.mailman.columbia.edu/files/On%20the%20Edge%20L- 

CAFH%20Final%20Report_Columbia%20University.pdf 

Abramson, David, Richard Garfield, and Irwin Redlener. 2007. The Recovery Divide: Poverty 

and the Widening Gap among Mississippi Children and Families Affected by Hurricane 

Katrina. A Report of the Mississippi Child and Family Health Study. New York: 

National Center for Disaster Preparedness and the Children’s Health Fund, Columbia 

University Mailman School of Public Health. 

http://www.ncdp.mailman.columbia.edu/files/recovery_divide.pdf 

Abramson, David M., Yoon Soo Park, Tasha Stehling-Ariza, and Irwin Redlener. 2010. 

“Children as Bellwethers of Recovery: Dysfunctional Systems and the Effects of Parents, 

Households, and Neighborhoods on Serious Emotional Disturbance in Children after 

Hurricane Katrina.” Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 4(1): S17-S27. 

Abramson, David, Irwin Redlener, Tasha Stehling-Ariza, and Elizabeth Fuller. 2007. The Legacy 

of Katrina’s Children: Estimating the Numbers of Hurricane-Related At-Risk Children in 

the Gulf Coast States of Louisiana and Mississippi. A Research Brief prepared by the 

National Center for Disaster Preparedness in collaboration with the Children’s Health 

Fund. New York: Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. 

http://www.ncdp.mailman.columbia.edu/files/legacy_katrina_children.pdf 

Adamo, Ralph. 2007. “Squeezing Public Education: History and Ideology Gang Up on New 

Orleans.” Dissent 54(3): 44-51. 

Barrett, Edith J., Maria Martinez-Cosio, Carrie Y. Barron Ausbrooks. 2008. “The School as a 

Source of Support for Katrina-Evacuated Youth.” Children, Youth and Environments 

18(1): 202-236. 

Bascetta, Cynthia A. 2009. “Hurricane Katrina: Barriers to Mental Health Services for Children 

Persist in Greater New Orleans, Although Federal Grants Are Helping to Address Them.” 

GAO-09-563. Washington, DC: GAO. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09563.pdf. 

Blaze, John T. and David W. Shwalb. 2010. “Resource Loss and Relocation: A Follow-Up Study 

of Adolescents Two Years after Hurricane Katrina.” Psychological Trauma: Theory, 

Research, Practice, and Policy 1(4): 312-322. 

Brandenburg, Mark A., Mary Beth Ogle, Beth A. Washington, Mike J. Gerner, Sue A. Watkins, 

and Karin L. Brandenburg. 2006. “‘Operation Child-Safe’: A Strategy for Preventing 

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Unintentional Pediatric Injuries at a Hurricane Katrina Evacuee Shelter.” Prehospital and 

Disaster Medicine 21(5): 359-365. 

Brandenburg, Mark A., Sue M. Watkins, Karin L. Brandenburg, and Christoph Schieche. 2007. 

“Operation Child-ID: Reunifying Children with their Legal Guardians after Hurricane 

Katrina.” Disasters 31(3): 277-287. 

Brown, Christia Spears, Rashmita S. Mistry, and Rebecca S. Bigler. 2007. “Hurricane Katrina: 

African American Children’s Perceptions of Race, Class, and Government Involvement 

Amid a National Crisis.” Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy 7(1): 191-208. 

Brown II, M. Christopher, T. Elon Dancy II, and James Earl Davis. 2007. “Drowning Beneath 

the Rising Tide: The Common Plight of Public Schools, Disadvantaged Students, and 

African American Males.” Pp. 54-72 in The Children Hurricane Katrina Left Behind: 

Schooling Context, Professional Preparation, and Community Politics, edited by S. P. 

Robinson and M. C. Brown II. New York: Peter Lang. 

Buchanan, Teresa K., Renee M. Casbergue, and Jennifer J. Baumgartner. 2010. “Consequences 

for Classroom Environments and School Personnel: Evaluating Katrina’s Effect on 

Schools and System Response.” Pp. 117-139 in Helping Families and Communities 

Recover from Disaster: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath, 

edited by R. P. Kilmer, V. Gil-Rivas, R. G. Tedeschi, and L. G. Calhoun. Washington, 

DC: American Psychological Association. 

Burnham, Joy J. 2009. “Contemporary Fears of Children and Adolescents: Coping and 

Resiliency in the 21st Century.” Journal of Counseling and Development 87(1): 28-35. 

Cain, Daphne S., Carol A. Plummer, Rakinzie M. Fisher, and Toni Q. Bankston. 2010. 

“Weathering the Storm: Persistent Effects and Psychological First Aid with Children 

Displaced by Hurricane Katrina.” Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma 3(4): 330- 

343. 

Casserly, Michael. 2006. “Double Jeopardy: Public Education in New Orleans before and after 

the Storm.” Pp. 197-214 in There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class, 

and Hurricane Katrina, edited by C. Hartman and G. D. Squires. New York: Routledge. 

Children’s Defense Fund. 2006. Katrina’s Children: A Call to Conscience and Action. 

Washington, DC: Children’s Defense Fund. 

http://cdf.convio.net/site/DocServer/KatrinaReport.pdf?docID=1421 

Children’s Defense Fund. 2007. Katrina’s Children: Still Waiting. Washington, DC: Children’s 

Defense Fund. 

Cohen, Judith A., Lisa H. Jaycox, Douglas W. Walker, Anthony P. Mannarino, Audra K. 

Langley, and Jennifer L. DuClos. 2009. “Treating Traumatized Children after Hurricane 

Katrina: Project Fleur-de-Lis.” Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review 12: 55–64. 

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Costa, Natalie M., Carl F. Weems, and Armando A. Pina. 2009. “Hurricane Katrina and Youth 

Anxiety: The Role of Perceived Attachment Beliefs and Parenting Behaviors.” Journal of 

Anxiety Disorders 23: 935-941. 

Dean, Kristen L., Audra K. Langley, Sheryl H. Kataoka, Lisa H. Jaycox, Marleen Wong, and 

Bradley D. Stein. 2008. “School-Based Disaster Mental Health Services: Clinical, Policy, 

and Community Challenges.” Professional Psychology: Research and Practice 39(1): 

52–57. 

Distad, Linda Schaak. 2007. “Leadership for the New Normal.” Pp. 119-128 in The Children 

Hurricane Katrina Left Behind: Schooling Context, Professional Preparation, and 

Community Politics, edited by S. P. Robinson and M. C. Brown II. New York: Peter 

Lang. 

Dolan, Margaret A. and Steven E. Krug. 2006. “Pediatric Disaster Preparedness in the Wake of 

Katrina: Lessons to be Learned.” Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine 7(1): 59-66. 

Dolch, Norman A., Daniel L. Meyer, and Angel V. Huval. 2008. “Hurricane Disaster Response 

by School-Based Health Centers.” Children, Youth and Environments 18(1): 422-434. 

Dugan, Erin M., Marilyn S. Snow, and Sindy R. Crowe. 2010. “Working with Children Affected 

by Hurricane Katrina: Two Case Studies in Play Therapy.” Child and Adolescent Mental 

Health 15(1): 52-55. 

Ensor, Maria. 2008. “Displaced Once Again: Honduran Migrant Children in the Path of 

Katrina.” Children, Youth and Environments 18(1): 280-302. 

Esmail, Ashraf M., Lisa A. Eargle, and Shyamal K. Das. 2007. “Hurricane Katrina and Its 

Impact on Education.” Pp. 191-202 in The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a 

Modern Catastrophe, edited by D. L. Brunsma, D. Overfelt, and J. S. Picou. Lanham, 

MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 

Felber, Dietmar. 2010. “At Lafayette School after Hurricane Katrina: An American Ghost 

Story.” Mississippi Quarterly 63(3-4): 571-591. 

Fleener, M. Jayne, Jerry Willis, Sister Judith Brun, and Kristy Hebert. 2007. “Post-Katrina 

Educational Contexts: Breaking the Rules.” Pp. 104-118 in The Children Hurricane 

Katrina Left Behind: Schooling Context, Professional Preparation, and Community 

Politics, edited by S. P. Robinson and M. C. Brown II. New York: Peter Lang. 

Foster, Kevin Michael. 2008. “Are They Katrina’s Kids or Ours? The Experience of Displaced 

New Orleans Students in Their New Schools and Communities.” Pp. 295-302 in Seeking 

Higher Ground: The Hurricane Katrina Crisis, Race, and Public Policy Reader, edited 

by M. Marable and K. Clarke. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 

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Fothergill, Alice and Lori Peek. 2006. “Surviving Catastrophe: A Study of Children in Hurricane 

Katrina.” Pp. 97-129 in Learning from Catastrophe: Quick Response Research in the 

Wake of Hurricane Katrina, edited by the Natural Hazards Center. Boulder: Institute of 

Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder. 

Freeman, Kassie. 2007. “Crossing the Waters: Katrina and the Other Great Migration – Lessons 

for African American K-12 Students’ Education.” Pp. 3-13 in The Children Hurricane 



Futrell, Mary Hatwood. 2007. “Can You Hear Me Now? Transforming Today’s Challenges to 

Position America for the Future.” Pp. 181-189 in The Children Hurricane Katrina Left 

Behind: Schooling Context, Professional Preparation, and Community Politics, edited by 

S. P. Robinson and M. C. Brown II. New York: Peter Lang. 

Gadsen, Vivian L. and Susan Fuhrman. 2007. “Reflections on Educational Equity in Post- 

Katrina New Orleans.” Pp. 73-85 in The Children Hurricane Katrina Left Behind: 



Gaffney, Donna A. 2006. “The Aftermath of Disaster: Children in Crisis.” Journal of Clinical 

Psychology 62(8): 1001-1016. 

Garrett, Andrew L., Roy Grant, Paula Madrid, Arturo Brito, David Abramson, and Irwin 

Redlener. 2007. “Children and Megadisasters: Lessons Learned in the New Millennium.” 

Advances in Pediatrics 54: 189-214. 

Gil-Rivas, Virginia, Ryan P. Kilmer, Annada W. Hypes, Katherine A. Roof, Richard G. 

Tedeschi, and Lawrence G. Calhoun. 2010. “The Caregiver-Child Relationship and 

Children’s Adjustment Following Hurricane Katrina.” Pp. 55-76 in Helping Families and 

Communities Recover from Disaster: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina and Its 

Aftermath, edited by R. P. Kilmer, V. Gil-Rivas, R. G. Tedeschi, and L. G. Calhoun. 

Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. 

Golden, Olivia. 2006. Young Children after Katrina: A Proposal to Heal the Damage and Create 

Opportunity in New Orleans. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute. 

http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/900920_young_children.pdf 

Grady, Dudley, Anitra Matlock, Donnanice Newman, Josef Pons, Will Powell, Shannon Taylor, 

and Drynisha Wright. 2006. From the Second Line. New Orleans: The Katrina Writing 

Project. 

Greenman, Jim. 2005. What Happened to MY World: Helping Children Cope with Natural 

Disaster and Catastrophe. Watertown, MA: Comfort for Kids. 

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Hensley, Lauren and R. Enrique Varela. 2008. “PTSD Symptoms and Somatic Complaints 

following Hurricane Katrina: The Role of Trait Anxiety and Anxiety Sensitivity.” 

Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 37(3): 542-552. 

Hensley-Maloney, Lauren and R. Enrique Varela. 2009. “The Influence of Hurricane Exposure 

and Anxiety Sensitivity on Panic Symptoms.” Child and Youth Care Forum 38(3): 135- 

149. 

Hill, Paul and Jane Hannaway. 2006. The Future of Public Education in New Orleans. 

Washington, DC: The Urban Institute. 

http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/900913_public_education.pdf 

Irvine, Jacqueline Jordan. 2007. “What Hurricane Katrina Uncovered About Schooling in 

America.” Pp. 21-28 in The Children Hurricane Katrina Left Behind: Schooling Context, 

Professional Preparation, and Community Politics, edited by S. P. Robinson and M. C. 

Brown II. New York: Peter Lang. 

Jaycox, Lisa H., Judith A. Cohen, Anthony P. Mannarino, Douglas W. Walker, Audra K. 

Langley, Kate L. Gegenheimer, Molly Scott, and Matthias Schonlau. 2010. “Children’s 

Mental Health Care Following Hurricane Katrina: A Field Trial of Trauma-Focused 

Psychotherapies.” Journal of Traumatic Stress 23(2): 223-231. 

Jaycox, Lisa H., Lindsey K. Morse, Terri Tanielian, and Bradley D. Stein. 2006. How Schools 

Can Help Students Recover from Traumatic Experiences: A Tool Kit for Supporting 

Long-Term Recovery. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. 

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2006/RAND_TR413.pdf 

Kalra, Nidhi, John F. Pane, Daniel F. McCaffrey, and Annie J. Zhou. 2008. “Effects of Student 

Displacement in Louisiana during the First Academic Year after the Hurricanes of 

2005.” Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk 13(2-3): 168-211. 

Kataoka, Sheryl H., Erum Nadeem, Marleen Wong, Audra K. Langley, Lisa H. Jaycox, 

Bradley D. Stein, and Phillip Young. 2009. “Improving Disaster Mental Health 

Care in Schools: A Community-Partnered Approach.” American Journal of Preventative 

Medicine 37(6): 225-229. 

Kelley, Mary Lou, Jennette L. Palcic, Julia F. Vigna, Jing Wang, Annie W. Spell, Angie 

Pellegrin, Karen L. Davidson, Shannon Self-Brown, and Kenneth J. Ruggiero. 2010. 

“The Effects of Parenting Behavior on Children’s Mental Health after Hurricane Katrina: 

Preliminary Findings.” Pp. 77-96 in Helping Families and Communities Recover from 

Disaster: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath., edited by R. P. 

Kilmer, V. Gil-Rivas, R. G. Tedeschi, and L. G. Calhoun. Washington, DC: American 

Psychological Association. 

Kelley, Mary Lou, Shannon Self-Brown, Brenda Le, Julia Vigna Bosson, Brittany C. Hernandez, 

and Arlene T. Gordon. 2010. “Predicting Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Children 

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Following Hurricane Katrina: A Prospective Analysis of the Effect of Parental Distress 

and Parenting Practices.” Journal of Traumatic Stress 23(5): 582-590. 

Kilmer, Ryan P. and Virginia Gil-Rivas. 2010. “Exploring Posttraumatic Growth in Children 

Impacted by Hurricane Katrina: Correlates of the Phenomenon and Developmental 

Considerations.” Child Development 81(4): 1211-1227. 

Kilmer, Ryan P. and Virginia Gil-Rivas. 2010. “Responding to the Needs of Children and 

Families after a Disaster: Linkages between Unmet Needs and Caregiver Functioning.” 

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 80(1): 135-142. 

Kilmer, Ryan P., Virginia Gil-Rivas, and Jacqueline MacDonald. 2010. “Implications of Major 

Disaster for Educators, Administrators, and School-Based Mental Health Professionals: 

Needs, Actions, and the Example of Mayfair Elementary.” Pp. 167-191 in Helping 

Families and Communities Recover from Disaster: Lessons Learned from Hurricane 

Katrina and Its Aftermath, edited by R. P. Kilmer, V. Gil-Rivas, R. G. Tedeschi, and L. 

G. Calhoun. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. 

Kirschke, Jennifer and Willem van Vliet. 2005. “How Can They Look So Happy? 

Reconstructing the Place of Children after Hurricane Katrina: Images and Reflections.” 

Children, Youth and Environments 15(2): 378-391. 

Kronenberg, Mindy E., Tonya Cross Hansel, Adrianne M. Brennan, Howard J. Osofsky, Joy D. 

Osofsky, and Beverly Lawrason. 2010. “Children of Katrina: Lessons Learned About 

Postdisaster Symptoms and Recovery Patterns.” Child Development 81(4): 1241-1259. 

Ladson-Billings, Gloria. 2007. “Now They’re Wet: Hurricane Katrina as Metaphor for Social 

and Educational Neglect.” Pp. 14-20 in The Children Hurricane Katrina Left Behind: 



LaRock, J. D. 2005. “Katrina and Rita: What Can the United States Learn from International 

Experiences with Education in Displacement?” Harvard Educational Review 75:357-363. 

Lauten, Anne Westbrook and Kimberly Lietz. 2008. “A Look at the Standards Gap: Comparing 

Child Protection Responses in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Indian Ocean 

Tsunami.” Children, Youth and Environments 18(1): 158-201. 

Leonard, Jacqueline. 2007. “Hurricane Katrina: Catastrophe or Opportunity?” Pp. 29-39 in The 

Children Hurricane Katrina Left Behind: Schooling Context, Professional Preparation, 

and Community Politics, edited by S. P. Robinson and M. C. Brown II. New York: Peter 

Lang. 

Levine, Arthur E. 2007. “Tikkun Olam.” Pp. 165-171 in The Children Hurricane Katrina Left 



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Lit, Ira and Jon Snyder. 2007. “Disastrous Opportunity.” Pp. 89-103 in The Children Hurricane 



Looman, Wendy Sue. 2006. “A Developmental Approach to Understanding Drawing and 

Narratives from Children Displaced by Hurricane Katrina.” Journal of Pediatric Health 

Care 20(3): 158-166. 

Madrid, Paula A., Richard Garfield, Parham Jaberi, Maureen Daly, Georgina Richard, and Roy 

Grant. 2008. “Mental Health Services in Louisiana: School-Based Health Centers Post- 

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.” Professional Psychology: Research and Practice 39(1): 

45-51. 

Madrid, Paula A., Roy Grant, Michael J. Reilly, and Neil B. Redlener. 2006. “Challenges in 

Meeting Immediate Emotional Needs: Short-Term Impact of a Major Disaster on 

Children’s Mental Health: Building Resiliency in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.” 

Pediatrics 117: 448-453. 

Marsee, Monica A. 2008. “Reactive Aggression and Posttraumatic Stress in Adolescents 

Affected by Hurricane Katrina.” Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 

37(3): 519-529. 

Mattai, P. Rudy and Jacqueline M. Williams. 2007. “Benign Neglect or Deliberate Exclusion? 

Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina.” Pp. 129-140 in The Children Hurricane 



McLaughlin, Katie A., John A. Fairbank, Michael J. Gruber, Russell T. Jones, Matthew D. 

Lakoma, Betty J. Pfefferbaum, Nancy A. Sampson, and Ronald C. Kessler. 2009. 

“Serious Emotional Disturbance among Youths Exposed to Hurricane Katrina 2 Years 

Postdisaster.” Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 

48(11):1069-1078. 

Meier, Kenneth, Laurence J. O’Toole, and Alisa Hicklin. 2010. “I’ve Seen Fire and I’ve Seen 

Rain: Public Management and Performance after a Natural Disaster.” Administration and 

Society 41(8): 979-1003. 

Mercer, Charmaine, Richard N. Apling, Paul Irwin, Ann Lordeman, Rebecca R. Skinner, and 

David P. Smole. 2005. Education and Training Issues Related to Major Disasters. Order 

Code RL33089. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service. 

www.library.dau.mil/CRS_RL33089.pdf 

Miron, Luis. 2008. “The Urban School Crisis in New Orleans: Pre- and Post-Katrina 

Perspectives.” Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk 13(2-3): 238-258. 

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Mitchell, Tom, Katharine Haynes, Nick Hall, Wei Choong, and Katie Oven. 2008. “The Roles of 

Children and Youth in Communicating Disaster Risk.” Children, Youth and 

Environments 18(1): 254-279. 

Moore, Kathryn W. and R. Enrique Varela. 2010. “Correlates of Long-Term Posttraumatic Stress 

Symptoms in Children Following Hurricane Katrina.” Child Psychiatry & Human 

Development 41(2): 239-250. 

Nsuami, M. J., S. N. Taylor, B. S. Smith, and D. H. Martin. 2009. “Increases in Gonorrhea 

among High School Students Following Hurricane Katrina.” Sexually Transmitted 

Infections 85(3): 194-198. 

Olteanu, Alina, Ruth Arnberger, Roy Grant, Caroline Davis, David Abramson, and Jaya Asola. 

2011. “Persistence of Mental Health Needs among Children Affected by Hurricane 

Katrina in New Orleans.” Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 26(1): 3-6. 

Operation Assist. 2006. Responding to an Emerging Humanitarian Crisis in Louisiana and 

Mississippi: Urgent Need for a Health Care “Marshall Plan.” New York: Operation 

Assist, the Children’s Health Fund, and Columbia University Mailman School of Public 

Health. http://www.ncdp.mailman.columbia.edu/files/marshall_plan.pdf 

Osofsky, Joy D., Howard J. Osofsky, and William W. Harris. 2007. “Katrina’s Children: Social 

Policy Considerations for Children in Disasters.” Social Policy Report 21: 3-18. 

Osofsky, Howard J., Joy D. Osofsky, Mindy E. Kronenberg, Adrianne M. Brennan, and Tonya 

Cross Hansel. 2009. “Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Children after Hurricane 

Katrina: Predicting the Need for Mental Health Services.” American Journal of 

Orthopsychiatry 79(2): 212-220. 

Overstreet, Stacy, Alison Salloum, and Christal Badour. 2010. “A School-Based Assessment of 

Secondary Stressors and Adolescent Mental Health 18 Months Post-Katrina.” Journal of 

School Psychology 48(5): 413-431. 

Pane, John F., Daniel F. McCaffrey, Nidhi Kalra, and Annie J. Zhou. 2008. “Effects of Student 

Displacement in Louisiana during the First Academic Year after the Hurricanes of 2005.” 

Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk 13(2-3): 168-211. 

Pane, John F., Daniel F. McCaffrey, Shannah Tharp-Taylor, Gary J. Asmus, and Billy R. Stokes. 

2006. Student Displacement in Louisiana after the Hurricanes of 2005: Experiences of 

Public Schools and Their Students. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. 

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2006/RAND_TR430.pdf 

Peek, Lori. 2008. “Children and Disasters: Understanding Vulnerability, Developing Capacities, 

and Promoting Resilience.” Children, Youth and Environments 18(1): 1-29. 

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Peek, Lori and Alice Fothergill. 2006. “Reconstructing Childhood: An Exploratory Study of 

Children in Hurricane Katrina.” Quick Response Report #186. Boulder: Natural Hazards 

Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado. 

http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/research/qr/qr186/qr186.pdf 

Peek, Lori, Bridget Morrissey, and Holly Marlatt. 2011. “Disaster Hits Home: A Model of 

Displaced Family Adjustment after Hurricane Katrina.” Journal of Family Issues. 

Peek, Lori and Krista Richardson. 2010. “In Their Own Words: Displaced Children’s 

Educational Recovery Needs after Hurricane Katrina.” Disaster Medicine and Public 

Health Preparedness 4(1): S63-S70. 

Pfefferbaum, Betty, J. Brian Houston, Karen Fraser Wyche, Richard L. Van Horn, Gilbert Reyes, 

Haekyung Jeon-Slaughter, and Carol S. North. 2008. “Children Displaced by Hurricane 

Katrina: A Focus Group Study.” Journal of Loss and Trauma 13: 303-318. 

Pina, Armando A., Ian K. Villalta, Claudio D. Ortiz, Amanda C. Gottschall, Natalie M. Costa, 

and Carl F. Weems. 2008. “Social Support, Perceived Discrimination, and Coping as 

Predictors of Posttraumatic Stress Reactions in Youth Survivors of Hurricane Katrina.” 

Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 37(3): 564-574. 

Picou, J. Steven and Brent K. Marshall. 2007. “Social Impacts of Hurricane Katrina on 

Displaced K-12 Students and Educational Institutions in Coastal Alabama Counties: 

Some Preliminary Observations.” Sociological Spectrum 27(6): 767-780. 

Rath, Barbara, Jessica Donato, Alyson Duggan, Keith Perrin, Daniel R. Bronfin, Raoult Ratard, 

Russell VanDyke, and Manya Magnus. 2007. “Adverse Health Outcomes after Hurricane 

Katrina among Children and Adolescents with Chronic Conditions.” Journal of Health 

Care for the Poor and Underserved 18(2): 405-417. 

Reich, Jennifer A. and Martha Wadsworth. 2008. “Out of the Floodwaters, but Not Yet on Dry 

Ground: Experiences of Displacement and Adjustment in Adolescents and Their Parents 

Following Hurricane Katrina.” Children, Youth and Environments 18(1): 354-370. 

Reyes, Augustina H. 2010. “The Immigrant Children of Katrina.” Peabody Journal of Education 

85(4): 443-468. 

Roberts, Yvonne Humenay, Monica J. Mitchell, Marjorie Witman, and Craig Taffaro. 2010. 

“Mental Health Symptoms in Youth Affected by Hurricane Katrina.” Professional 

Psychology: Research and Practice 41(1): 10-18. 

Robertson, Angela A., David T. Morse, and Connie Baird-Thomas. 2009. “Hurricane Katrina’s 

Impact on the Mental Health of Adolescent Female Offenders.” Anxiety, Stress, and 

Coping 22(4): 433-448. 

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Robertson, Angela R., Judith A. Stein, and Lacey Schaefer-Rohleder. 2010. “Effects of 

Hurricane Katrina and Other Adverse Life Events on Adolescent Female Offenders: A 

Test of General Strain Theory.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 47(4): 

469-495. 

Robertson, Clyde C. and Joyce E. King. 2007. “Bo Feerey: A Teaching and Learning 

Methodology for Healing the Wounds of Distance, Displacement, and Loss Caused by 

Hurricane Katrina.” Journal of Black Studies 37(4): 469-481. 

Robinson, Sharon Porter and Penny Engel. 2007. “Creating World-Class Teachers: Prospects for 

Katrina Recovery and Beyond.” Pp. 152-162 in The Children Hurricane Katrina Left 



Rowe, Cynthia L., Annette M. La Greca, and Anders Alexandersson. 2010. “Family and 

Individual Factors Associated with Substance Involvement and PTS Symptoms among 

Adolescents in Greater New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.” Journal of Consulting and 

Clinical Psychology 78(6): 806-817. 

Salloum, Alison, Laura W. Garfield, C. Louis Irwin, Adrian D. Anderson, and Anita Francois. 

2009. “Grief and Trauma Group Therapy with Children after Hurricane Katrina.” Social 

Work with Groups 32(1-2): 67-79. 

Salloum, Alison and Stacy Overstreet. 2008. “Evaluation of Individual and Group Grief and 

Trauma Interventions for Children Post Disaster.” Journal of Clinical Child and 

Adolescent Psychology 37(3): 495-507. 

Salloum, Alison and Marva L. Lewis. 2010. “An Exploratory Study of African American Parent- 

Child Coping Strategies Post-Hurricane Katrina.” Traumatology 16(1): 31-41. 

Salloum, Alison, Paulette Carter, Berre Burch, Abbe Garfinkel, and Stacy Overstreet. 2011. 

“Impact of Exposure to Community Violence, Hurricane Katrina, and Hurricane Gustav 

on Posttraumatic Stress and Depressive Symptoms among School Age Children.” Anxiety 

Stress and Coping 24(1): 27-42. 

Scaramella, Laura V., Sara L. Sohr-Preston, Kristin L. Callahan, and Scott P. Mirabile. 2008. “A 

Test of the Family Stress Model on Toddler-Aged Children’s Adjustment among 

Hurricane Katrina Impacted and Non-Impacted Low Income Families.” Journal of 

Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 37(3): 530-541. 

Scheeringa, Michael S., Alison Salloum, Ruth A. Arnberger, Carl F. Weems, Lisa Amaya- 

Jackson, and Judith Cohen. 2007. “Feasibility and Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral 

Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Preschool Children: Two Case Reports.” 

Journal of Traumatic Stress 20: 631-636. 

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Health and Health Care 

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Housing 

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Media 

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Antoine, Rebecca, ed. 2008. Voices Rising: Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project. New 

Orleans, LA: University of New Orleans Press. 

Bates, Kristin A. and Richelle S. Swan, eds. 2007. Through the Eye of Katrina: Social Justice in 

the United States. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. 

Bates, Kristin A. and Richelle S. Swan, eds. 2010. Through the Eye of Katrina: Social Justice in 

the United States. 2nd edition. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. 

Baum, Dan. 2009. Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans. New York: Spiegel and Grau. 

Bergal, Jenni, Sara Shipley Hiles, Frank Koughan, John McQuaid, Jim Morris, Katy Reckdahl, 

and Curtis Wilkie. 2007. City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Katrina. Baton 

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Wilma. Baltimore, MD: The John Hopkins University Press. 

Brinkley, Douglas. 2006. The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the 

Mississippi Gulf Coast. New York: William Morrow. 

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Carey, Bill. 2006. Leave No One Behind: Hurricane Katrina and the Rescue of Tulane Hospital. 

Arlington Heights, IL: Clearbrook Press. 

Chamlee_Wright, Emily and Virgil Henry Storr. 2010. The Political Economy of Hurricane 

Katrina and Community Rebound. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. 

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and Other Storms. New York: Springer. 

Childs, John Brown, ed. 2007. Hurricane Katrina: Response and Responsibilities. Santa Cruz, 

CA: New Pacific Press. 

Clark, Joshua. 2007. Heart like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone. New 

York: Free Press. 

Colten, Craig E. 2009. Perilous Place, Powerful Storms: Hurricane Protection in Coastal 

Louisiana. Jackson: Mississippi University Press. 

Cooper, Christopher and Robert Block. 2006. Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of 

Homeland Security. New York: Times Books. 

Dallas Morning News. 2006. Eyes of the Storm: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: The Photographic 

Story. Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing. 

Daniels, Ronald J., Donald F. Kettl, and Howard Kunreuther, eds. 2006. On Risk and Disaster: 


Danna, Denise and Sandra Cordray. 2009. Nursing in the Storm: Voices from Hurricane Katrina. 

New York: Springer Publishing Company. 

Dass-Brailsford, Priscilla. 2009. Crisis and Disaster Counseling: Lessons Learned from 

Hurricane Katrina and Other Disasters. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. 

Dawn, Laura and C. B. Smith. 2006. It Takes a Nation: How Strangers Became Family in the 

Wake of Hurricane Katrina. San Rafael, CA: Earth Aware. 

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Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Health and Education: Voices of the Children. New 

York: Edwin Mellen Press. 

Dyson, Michael Eric. 2006. Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of 

Disaster. New York: Basic Books. 

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Espinoza, Cholene. 2006. Through the Eye of the Storm: A Book Dedicated to Rebuilding What 

Katrina Washed Away. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing. 

Forman, Sally. 2007. Eye of the Storm: Inside City Hall during Katrina. Bloomington, IN: 

AuthorHouse. 

Freudenburg, William R., Robert Gramling, Shirley Laska, and Kai Erikson. 2009. Catastrophe 

in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow. Washington 

DC: Island Press. 

Giroux, Henry A. 2006. Stormy Weather: Katrina and the Politics of Disposability. Boulder, CO: 

Paradigm Publishers. 

Hackler, M. B. 2010. Culture after the Hurricanes: Rhetoric and Reinvention on the Gulf Coast. 

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. 

Harris, Paul A. 2008. Diary from the Dome: Reflections on Fear and Privilege during Katrina. 

New York: Vantage Press. 

Hart, Phillip S. 2007. African-Americans and the Future of New Orleans: Rebirth, Renewal and 

Rebuilding: An American Dilemma. Phoenix, AZ: Amber Communications Group, Inc. 

Hartman, Chester and Gregory Squires, eds. 2006. There is No Such Thing as a Natural 

Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina. New York: Routledge. 

Hidalgo, Danielle Antoinette and Kristen Barber, eds. 2007. Narrating the Storm: Sociological 

Stories of Hurricane Katrina. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars 

Publishing. 

Horne, Jed. 2006. Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American 

City. New York: Random House. 

Inglese, Demaree with Diana G. Gallagher. 2007. No Ordinary Heroes: 8 Doctors, 30 Nurses, 

7,000 Prisoners and a Category 5 Hurricane. Emeryville, CA: Citadel. 

Kilmer, Ryan P., Virginia Gil-Rivas, Richard G. Tedeschi, and Lawrence G. Calhoun, eds. 2009. 

Helping Families and Communities Recover from Disaster: Lessons Learned from 

Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath (Specific Approaches and Populations). 

Washington DC: American Psychological Association. 

Levitt, Jeremy I. and Matthew C. Whitaker, eds. 2009. Hurricane Katrina: America’s Unnatural 

Disaster. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 

Malloy, Robin Paul. 2009. Law and Recovery from Disaster: Hurricane Katrina. Surrey, UK: 

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Marable, Manning and Kristen Clarke, eds. 2008. Seeking Higher Ground: The Hurricane 

Katrina Crisis, Race, and Public Policy Reader. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 

McCarthy, Kevin F. 2006. The Repopulation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Santa 

Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. 

McNulty, Ian. 2008. A Season of Night: New Orleans after Katrina. Jackson: Mississippi 

University Press. 

McQuaid, John and Mark Schleifstein. 2006. Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New 

Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms. New York: Little, Brown, and Company. 

Miller, DeMond and Jason Rivera. 2008. Hurricane Katrina and the Redefinition of Landscape. 


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Hurricane Katrina. New York: Atria Books. 

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the Eye of the Storm. Roseburg, OR: Spotlight Press. 

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Wake of Hurricane Katrina. Boulder: Institute of Behavioral Science, University of 

Colorado at Boulder. 

Neff, Thomas. 2007. Holding Out and Hanging On: Surviving Hurricane Katrina. Columbia: 

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Negra, Diane. 2010. Old and New Media after Katrina. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 

Neufeld, Josh. 2009. A.D.: New Orleans after the Deluge. New York: Pantheon Books. 

Nine Times Social and Pleasure Club. 2007. Coming Out the Door for the Ninth Ward. New 

Orleans: The Neighborhood Story Project. 

Olasky, Marvin N. 2006. The Politics of Disaster: Katrina, Big Government, and a New Strategy 

for Future Crises. Nashville, TN: W Publishing Group. 

Penner, D’Ann R. and Keith C. Ferdinand. 2009. Overcoming Katrina: African American Voices 

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Petterson, John S., Laura D. Stanley, Edward Glazier, and James Philipp. 2006. “A Preliminary 

Assessment of Social and Economic Impacts Associated with Hurricane Katrina.” 


Pfister, Sally, ed. 2007. Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember. Jackson: University Press of 

Mississippi. 

Picou, J.Steven and David Brunsma. 2009. “Disasters in the Twenty-First Century: Modern 

Destruction and Future Instruction.” Social Forces 87: 983-991. 

Potter, Hillary, ed. 2007. Racing the Storm: Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from 

Hurricane Katrina. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 

Pratt, Lloyd. 2008. “In the Event: An Introduction.” Differences. 19(2):1-8. 

Quigley, William P. 2008. Storms Still Raging: Katrina, New Orleans, and Social Justice. New 

York: BookSurge Publishing. 

Reed, Betsy, ed. 2006. Unnatural Disaster: The Nation on Hurricane Katrina. New York: 

Nation Books. 

Richardson, Harry W., Peter Gordon, and James E. Moore, II, eds. 2008. Natural Disaster 

Analysis after Hurricane Katrina: Risk Assessment, Economic Impacts, and Social 

Implications. Northamptom, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. 

Robinson, Sharon P. and M. Christopher Brown II, eds. 2007. The Children Hurricane Katrina 

Left Behind: Schooling Context, Professional Preparation, and Community Politics. New 

York: Peter Lang. 

Rose, Chris. 2007. 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina. New York: Simon and Schuster. 

Schaefer, Mikel. 2007. Lost in Katrina. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing. 

Sothern, Billy. 2007. Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City. Berkeley: 

University of California Press. 

South End Press Collective, eds. 2007. What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the 

Nation. Cambridge, MA: South End Press. 

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Orleans Photographer. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 

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TIME Magazine. 2005. Hurricane Katrina: The Storm that Changed America. New York: Time. 

The Times-Picayune. 2006. Katrina: The Ruin and Recovery of New Orleans. Roseburg, OR: 

Spotlight Press. 

Troutt, David Dante, ed. 2006. After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of 

Hurricane Katrina. New York: New Press. 

Van Heerden, Ivor and Mike Bryan. 2006. The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why during 

Hurricane Katrina – The Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist. New York: Viking. 

Vollen, Lola and Chris Ying. 2006. Voices from the Storm: The People of New Orleans on 

Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath. Brooklyn, NY: McSweeney’s. 

Wells, Ken. 2008. The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous: Fighting to Save a Way of Life in 

the Wake of Hurricane Katrina. Harrisonburg, VA: R.R. Donnelley. 

Wailoo, Keith, Karen M. O’Neill, Jeffrey Dowd, and Roland V. Anglin, eds. 2010. Katrina’s 

Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 

Woods, Clyde. 2010. In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: New Paradigms and Social Visions. 

Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press. 

Zakin, Susan, Bill McKibben, and Chris Jordan. 2006. In Katrina’s Wake: Portraits of Loss from 

an Unnatural Disaster. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. 

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Reviews 

Browne, Kate. 2008. “From the Filmmaker, Still Waiting: Life After Katrina.” National Women’s 

Studies Association Journal 20(3): 196-199. 

Enarson, Elaine. 2008. “Still Waiting: Life After Katrina (review).” National Women’s Studies 


Luft, Rachel E. 2008. “After Katrina: A Second Generation of Books.” Sociological Inquiry 

78(2): 258-263. 

Picou, J. Steven. 2009. “Review Essay: The Shifting Sands of Post-Katrina Disaster Sociology.” 

Sociological Spectrum 29: 431-438. 

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Special Issues of Journals 

Academic Psychiatry. 2007. “Hurricane Katrina: Disasters Teach Us and We Must Learn.” 31(3). 

http://ap.psychiatryonline.org/content/vol31/issue3/index.dtl 

Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. 2009. 

“Innovations in Disaster Mental Health Services and Evaluation: National, State, and 

Local Responses to Hurricane Katrina.” 36(3). 

http://www.springerlink.com/content/0894-587x/36/3/ 

American Anthropologist. 2006. “The Impact of the Hurricanes of 2005 on New Orleans and the 

Gulf Coast of the United States.” 108(4). 

American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 2008. “Indigenous Locations Post-Katrina: 

Beyond Invisibility and Disaster.” 32(2). http://aisc.metapress.com/ 

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. 2006. “Special Issue on Katrina.” 6(1). 

http://www.asap-spssi.org/vol6i1b.htm 

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 2006. “Shelter from the Storm: 

Repairing the National Management System after Hurricane Katrina.” 604(1). 

http://ann.sagepub.com/content/vol604/issue1/ 

Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research. 2008. “Design and Disaster: Higher 

Education Responds to Hurricane Katrina.” 10(3). 

http://www.huduser.org/periodicals/cityscpe/vol10num3/index.html 

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 2010. “Recovery Research, Katrina’s Fifth 

Anniversary, and Lessons Learned.” 4(Supplement 1). 

Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. 2006. “Special Issue on Katrina.” 3(1). 

Journal of American History. 2007. “Through the Eye of Katrina: The Past as Prologue?” 94. 

Journal of American Studies. 2010. “Hurricane Katrina: Five Years After.” 44(3). 

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=AMS&volumeId=44&seriesId=0& 

issueId=03 

Journal of Applied Communication Research. 2007. “2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season.” 35(1). 

Journal of Black Studies. 2007. “Katrina: Race, Class, and Poverty.” 37(4). 

http://jbs.sagepub.com/content/vol37/issue4/ 

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 2007. “Public Health Implications of 

Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma.” 18(2). 

http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_health_care_for_the_poor_and_underserved/ 

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Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences. 2007. “Katrina Special Edition.” 52(4). 

http://www.msacad.org/currentjournal.html 

Journal of Public Management and Social Policy. 2006. “Natural Disasters: How Do They 

Impact the Environment, Economy, and People?” 12(1). 

National Women’s Studies Association Journal. 2008. “New Orleans: A Special Issue on 

Gender, the Meaning of Place, and the Politics of Displacement.” 20(3). 

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nwsa_journal/toc/nwsa.20.3.html 

Organization & Environment. 2009. “Social Organization of Demographic Responses to 

Disaster.” 22(4). http://oae.sagepub.com/content/22/4.toc 

Population and Environment. 2010. “Demographic Dynamics and Natural Disasters: Learning 

from Katrina and Rita.” 31(1-3) http://www.springerlink.com/content/0199-0039/31/1-3/ 

Race, Gender, and Class. 2007. “Race, Gender, and Class Conference: Hurricane Katrina.” 

14(1). http://www.suno.edu/sunorgc/journal%202003.htm#Vol%2014 

Social Studies of Science. 2007. “Special Issue on Katrina.” 37(1). 

http://sss.sagepub.com/content/vol37/issue1/ 

Sociological Spectrum. 2007. “Disaster Research and Hurricane Katrina.” 27(6). 

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02732173.asp 

Space and Culture. 2006. “Disastrous Social Theory – Lessons from New Orleans.” 9(1). 

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Documentary Films 

The Axe in the Attic. Ed Pincus and Lucia Small. (110 minutes) http://www.theaxeintheattic.com/ 

Big Easy to Big Empty: The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans. Greg Palast. Palast 

Productions. (90 minutes) http://www.gregpalast.com/big-easy-to-big-empty-the-untold-story-ofthe-drowning-of-new-orleans/ 

Desert Bayou. Alex LeMay. (92 minutes) http://www.amazon.com/Desert- 

Bayou/dp/B002UXDL92 

Faubourg Tremé. Serendipity Films. (68 minutes) http://www.tremedoc.com/ 

Hell and High Water. (73 minutes) http://www.amazon.com/Hell-and-High- 

Water/dp/B000FGZMHU 

Hurricane Katrina: Battle at the Beachfront. (76 minutes) http://www.amazon.com/Hurricane- 

Katrina-Battle-at-Beachfront/dp/B000ICLRX4 

Hurricane Katrina: The Storm that Drowned a City. NOVA, Public Broadcasting Service. (56 

minutes) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/orleans/ 

Kamp Katrina. Carnivalesque Films. (74 minutes) 

http://www.carnivalesquefilms.com/kamp_katrina.html 

Katrina: The Response. NOW. Public Broadcasting Service. (60 minutes) 

http://www.pbs.org/now/society/katrina.html 

Katrina’s Children. Laura Belsey. John McLean Media. (83 minutes) 

http://www.katrinaschildren.com/ 

The Old Man and the Storm. Frontline. Public Broadcasting Service. (60 minutes) 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/katrina/ 

Right to Return: New Home Movies from the Lower 9 th Ward. Jonathan Demme. Public 

Broadcasting Service. http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/special/righttoreturn.html 

Still Standing: An EVC Documentary on Hurricane Katrina. Ric Burns. New York: Educational 

Video Center. 

http://www.soros.org/resources/multimedia/katrina/projects/StillStanding/story_StillStanding.ph 

p 

Still Waiting: Life after Katrina. Kate Browne and Ginny Martin. Public Broadcasting Service. 

http://www.stillwaiting.colostate.edu/ 

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The Storm. Frontline. Public Broadcasting Service. (60 minutes) 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/storm/ 

Trouble the Water. Tia Lessin and Carl Deal. Zeitgeist Films. (93 minutes) 

http://troublethewaterfilm.com/ 

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. Spike Lee. HBO Documentary Films. (240 

minutes) http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/whentheleveesbroke/ 

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Select Websites 

ACORN 

http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=9703 

ACORN is a community organization that aims to win power for low- and moderate-income 

families. This site includes a summary of ACORN’s Katrina relief work, as well as links to 

reports that detail ACORN’s efforts to help recover and rebuild New Orleans. 

America Speaks 

http://www.americaspeaks.org/ 

This organization designs and facilitates large-scale town meetings on public policy issues. On 

December 2, 2006, America Speaks convened “Community Congress II,” a one-day community 

meeting that took place in 21 cities. The meeting focused on updating New Orleans residents on 

recovery efforts, creating a public dialogue to identify rebuilding priorities, and strengthening 

public awareness for continued recovery and rebuilding efforts. 

Appleseed 

http://www.appleseeds.net/ 

Appleseed is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a just society. This site includes a 

report on the conditions in New Orleans, as well as separate reports on how host cities cared for 

hurricane survivors who were displaced to Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Birmingham, Houston, and 

San Antonio. Each report details a variety of interdependent issues in five key areas: housing, 

healthcare, education, employment, and legal services. 

The Brookings Institution: Katrina Reading Room 

www.brookings.edu/metro/katrina.htm 

This site offers links to work in the following areas: progress on Katrina recovery; rebuilding the 

Gulf Coast; emergency housing assistance; other emergency response; overall disaster response; 

and facts about New Orleans and the Gulf before Katrina. 

Center for Social Inclusion 

http://www.centerforsocialinclusion.org/ 

The Center for Social Inclusion (CSI) has been working to help coordinate and connect national 

and local groups that are working to help rebuild the Gulf Coast. According to the list compiled 

and posted on the CSI website, there are currently over 140 organizations (mostly not-for-profit, 

social justice organizations) working in some capacity to help with the recovery efforts. This site 

also offers a link to the CSI-published report, The Race to Rebuild: The Color of Opportunity 

and the Future of New Orleans. 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Recovery from Katrina and Other 2005 Hurricanes 

http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/katrina_2005.asp 

This page contains information on the CDC response to Hurricane Katrina, health information 

for workers and evacuees, and information from CDC, EPA, and other federal agencies on 

testing environmental exposures including air, water, mold, and sediment. 

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Common Ground 

http://www.commongroundrelief.org/ 

Common Ground is a grassroots organization formed in the aftermath of Katrina. Its mission is 

to provide short-term relief for victims and long-term support in rebuilding the communities 

affected in the New Orleans area. This site summarizes the latest activities and news from the 

organization. 

Coordinated Assistance Network 

http://www.can.org/ 

The Coordinate Assistance Network (CAN) is a multi-organizational partnership among some of 

the nation’s leading nonprofit disaster relief organizations. New Orleans is one of the “pilot 

communities” where the ability of CAN to coordinate multiple disaster response and relief 

agencies is being tested. This site describes how CAN works and offers specific information 

regarding post-Katrina and Rita deployments. 

Federal Emergency Management Agency: Hurricane Katrina Two Years Later 

www.fema.gov/hazard/hurricane/2005katrina/ 

This site is devoted to matters of recovery from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The site offers 

information on the progress being made in the region, news and statistics, the latest reports, 

interactive maps, important phone numbers, and guidelines on preparedness and mitigation. 

Gender and Disaster Network 

http://www.gdnonline.org/ 

This site includes a number of resources related to women’s issues in disasters, and offers a free 

download of the Gender and Disaster Sourcebook. 

Greater New Orleans Community Data Center: Population and Housing Estimates and Maps 

www.gnocdc.org/ 

This site offers data, maps, and reports to help support nonprofit grant writing, advocacy, 

planning, and decision-making in post-Katrina New Orleans. 

Harvard Medical School: Hurricane Katrina Community Advisory Group 

http://hurricanekatrina.med.harvard.edu/ 

The research team at Harvard is monitoring, over time, a group of 3,000 people who represent 

those affected by Hurricane Katrina. Over 300 oral histories, links to relevant publications, and 

additional information on the study are available via the website. 

Hurricane Digital Memory Bank 

http://hurricanearchive.org/ 

This site contains collections of oral histories, photos, videos, objects, first person narrative 

accounts (submitted electronically by individuals), blog postings, and pod casts related to 

Hurricane Katrina. 

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Katrina Information Network 

http://www.katrinaaction.org/ 

The Katrina Information Network (KIN) is a collaboration of groups in the Gulf Coast and 

across the country working to initiate social change. This site summarizes KIN’s efforts on 

behalf of those still struggling to recover from Katrina, including e-advocacy actions, grassroots 

pressure, local actions, resolutions, and selective buying campaigns. 

Katrina Research Project on Equity 

http://www.katrinaresearch.org/ 

The Katrina Research Project on Equity (KRPE) is a clearinghouse and network for research on 

the role of race and class in the post-Katrina recovery process in the Gulf Coast and in displaced 

communities. KRPE facilitates communication and collaboration among researchers, volunteers, 

and community groups interested in research on race and class disparities in reconstruction 

programs. The goal of is to encourage community-directed research that promotes a just and 

equitable society. 

Journey to Trauma Recovery 

http://katrina.vast.uccs.edu/ 

Journey to Trauma Recovery is a free, self-help service designed to help survivors of recent 

trauma learn more about post-traumatic stress and cope more effectively with the effects of 

trauma. 

Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals – Hurricane Katrina 

http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/offices/?ID=192 

This site contains information about people who are believed to be missing or who perished 

following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. 

Louisiana Recovery Authority: Governor’s Planning and Coordinating Body 

www.lra.louisiana.gov/ 

The Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA) is the planning and coordinating body that was created 

in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita by Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco to plan 

for the recovery and rebuilding of Louisiana. This site offers information on the mission, goals, 

and activities of the LRA. 

Louisiana State University: Hurricane Katrina and Rita Clearinghouse Cooperative 

www.katrina.lsu.edu/ 

This is a GIS clearinghouse that was established at the Louisiana State University to facilitate the 

collection, dissemination, and archiving of data related to Hurricane Katrina and Rita. 

Louisiana State University Public Policy Research Lab: Post-Hurricane Research 

http://www.survey.lsu.edu/posthurricaneresearch.html 

Several government agencies, non-profit organizations, and local chambers of commerce have 

conducted research in the wake of the 2005 hurricanes. In cooperation with the Louisiana 

Department of Labor and the Louisiana Recovery Authority, the LSU Public Policy Research 

Lab has compiled a list of those projects, including research on business, demographics, 

government, tourism, and healthcare. 

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Mississippi Renewal Forum: Governor’s Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding, and Renewal 

http://www.mississippirenewal.com/ 

Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi founded the Commission after Hurricane Katrina to give 

people the chance to express their ideas about rebuilding. This site offers information on the 

mission, goals, and activities of the Commission. The site also includes links to a number of 

reports that summarize the rebuilding efforts in various locations in Mississippi. 

http://www.mississippirenewal.com/info/plansReports.html 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Hurricane Katrina Web Portal 

www.katrina.noaa.gov/ 

This site includes links to images and maps of Katrina, as well as reports that assess the 

environmental impacts of the storm. 

Natural Hazards Center: Hurricane Katrina Resources 

http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/library/katrina.html 

This page provides a list of useful resources that examine various aspects of the Hurricane 

Katrina disaster. 

RAND Gulf States Policy Institute 

http://www.rand.org/rgspi/ 

The RAND Gulf States Policy Institute (RGSPI) was created in the wake of the 2005 hurricane 

season with the mission to provide a long-term capacity to develop informed public policy in 

Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. The institute is engaged in policy research on the critical 

issues affecting the Gulf states: improving health care systems, financing public education, 

building affordable housing, strengthening the performance of public safety agencies, and 

weighing the costs and benefits of different levels of flood control, hurricane protection, and 

wetlands restoration. The site includes detailed project descriptions and several reports that have 

been published by RGSPI. 

Social Science Research Council: Hurricane Katrina Research Hub 

http://katrinaresearchhub.ssrc.org/ 

The Hurricane Katrina Research Hub offers a platform for sharing information and promoting 

collaboration among social scientists working on issues surrounding Katrina and its aftermath. 

The hub includes a wide array of information related to Hurricane Katrina, including current 

social science research, events, funding opportunities, news coverage, and other resources. 

Individuals who are conducting research on Hurricane Katrina are encouraged to create a profile 

online and contribute to the hub. 

Social Science Research Council: Understanding Katrina – Perspectives from the Social 

Sciences 

http://understandingkatrina.ssrc.org/ 

Essays on this site, which were written by leading social science scholars, address the social, 

political, and economic implications of Hurricane Katrina. 

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Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston 

http://www.katrinaandrita.org/ 

This site includes information on the Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston project, which is the 

first large-scale project in which the survivors of a major disaster have taken the lead in 

documenting it. Since August 2005, participants have recorded approximately 300 interviews. 

Teaching the Levees 

http://www.teachingthelevees.org/ 

This site provides free curriculum for high school and college teachers wishing to use Spike 

Lee’s documentary film When the Levees Broke in the classroom. The site includes maps, a 

timeline of the disaster, and key facts. Teachers can also share their lesson plans online. 

Team Louisiana Documents 

http://www.dotd.louisiana.gov/administration/teamlouisiana/ 

Following the failure of the federal levee system around New Orleans, federal agencies and 

national organizations mounted investigations into the causes behind the failures. This site 

contains reports from a team of Louisiana scientists (“Team Louisiana”) that gathered and 

documented all available data relevant to the failures. 

U.S. Census Bureau: Hurricane Katrina 

http://www.census.gov/newsroom/emergencies/hurricane_katrina.html 

This site offers links to vital statistics related to the people affected by Katrina and the economic, 

transportation, and housing impacts. 

U.S. Department of Homeland Security: Hurricane Katrina: What Government Is Doing 

www.dhs.gov/katrina 

This site provides an overview of DHS’s activities to help rebuild communities, repair and 

strengthen infrastructure, rebuild the economy and protect workers, restore the environment, 

provide healthcare and other vital social services, fight crime, and prepare for future storms. 

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Katrina Accomplishments – One Year 

Later 

www.hud.gov/news/katrina05response.cfm 

This site details HUD’s activities to aid households in reestablishing housing post-Katrina. 

Voices from the Gulf 

http://voicesfromthegulf.com/ 

Voices from the Gulf is a site where survivors of Hurricane Katrina can tell their stories, 

unfiltered, for the world to hear and see. Anyone can participate – by signing up to videotape 

someone’s story, or signing up to tell their own. The goal is to help people from all walks of life 

connect with those stories, in a real and direct way. 

White House Speeches and News Releases: Hurricane Katrina – Rebuilding the Gulf Coast 

Region 

www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/katrina/ 

This site includes links to speeches and news releases from the White House. 

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Contact Information 

If you have comments or suggestions for additional materials that should be included in this 

bibliography, please contact Kai Erikson (k.erikson@sbcglobal.net) or Lori Peek 

(lori.peek@colostate.edu). 

Acknowledgements 

We would like to thank Sara Gill, Clark Niemeyer-Thomas, Brock Rauzi, Laura Ridenour, and 

Jennifer Tobin-Gurley for their assistance with literature searches for this bibliography and we 

owe Michelle Lueck a special debt of gratitude for her many significant contributions. We also 

appreciate the thoughtful suggestions and feedback provided by the members of the SSRC 

Advisory Board for the Task Force on Katrina and the members of the SSRC Research Network 

on Persons Displaced by Katrina. 

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