Steven D. Stehr earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. He is currently an Associate Professor and the Graduate Studies Director. His primary teaching and research areas are Public Administration, Public Policy, and Disasters and Emergency Management. His research has appeared in Public Administration Review, Urban Affairs Review, Public Administration Quarterly, The Journal of the American Planning Association, Review of Public Personnel Administration, among other scholarly outlets. He also contributed a chapter to the recently published Handbook of Crisis and Emergency Management. Dr. Stehr is currently doing research on the social and organizational processes undertaken in victim identification and assistance programs following the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers.