Daniel P. Aldrich (born 1974) is an academic in the fields of

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

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and

Asian studies Asian studies is the term used usually in North America and Australia for what in Europe is known as Oriental studies. The field is concerned with the Asian people, their cultures, languages, history and politics. Within the Asian sphere, Asian ...

. He is currently professor of political science and public policy at Northeastern University and was a Fulbright Specialist in Trinidad-Tobago in 2018, a

Fulbright research fellow The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people o ...

at the University of Tokyo's Economic's Department for the 2012–2013 academic year, and a IIE Fulbright Dissertation Fellow in 2002–2003. His research, prompted in part by his own family's experience of

Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina was a destructive Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused over 1,800 fatalities and $125 billion in damage in late August 2005, especially in the city of New Orleans and the surrounding areas. It was at the time the cost ...

, explores how communities around the world respond to and recover from disaster. Much of Aldrich's research has explored the interaction between social networks, public policy, and the environment. His research interests include comparative politics, nuclear power, disaster recovery, and countering

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. One of his main contributions has been the argument that

social capital Social capital is "the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively". It involves the effective functioning of social groups through interpersonal relationships ...

serves as the critical engine for post-disaster recovery and that these ties are more important than factors such as damage from the event, wealth, or investment in physical infrastructure. His work has been cited by organizations such as Facebook, the Red Cross, NYC Emergency Management, the Legal Services Corporation, and the City Club of Portland in their focus on the role of social ties during disaster. He has also worked extensively on interactions between civil society, social networks, and the state, especially in the siting of controversial facilities. Aldrich's earlier research focused on Japan's nuclear power program. He has been interviewed extensively in the press as an expert on this subject. Aldrich's ongoing work includes a focus on social infrastructure, that is, the facilities and places that help people meet, build trust and create and maintain social capital

Early life and education

Aldrich, after graduating from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, completed his B.A. (1996) at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

as a

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(highest honors,

Phi Beta Kappa The Phi Beta Kappa Society () is the oldest academic honor society in the United States, and the most prestigious, due in part to its long history and academic selectivity. Phi Beta Kappa aims to promote and advocate excellence in the liberal a ...

). He earned an M.A. in Asian Studies from the

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant univ ...

in 1998 and then received his M.A. (2001) and Ph.D. (2005) from the Government Department at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

where Susan Pharr was his main adviser.

Career

In 2005 Aldrich became assistant professor at

Tulane University Tulane University, officially the Tulane University of Louisiana, is a private university, private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by seven young medical doctors, it turned into ...

in New Orleans, Louisiana, but the university was suspended for the Fall semester because of

. He resumed at Tulane in Spring 2006, and then became an Advanced Research Fellow at Harvard University's Program on U.S.-Japan Relations in the fall of 2006. In the Fall of 2007 he became an Abe Research Professor at the

University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...

where he researched the role of social networks in disaster recovery. In the fall of 2008 he began work as an assistant professor of political science at

Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money ...

in West Lafayette, Indiana. He earned tenure in the spring of 2011, and then went on leave from Purdue, heading first to the

East West Center East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fac ...

in Honolulu, Hawaii as a visiting fellow, and then to become a Science and Technology Fellow through the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...

(AAAS) at the

United States Agency for International Development The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance. With a budget of over $27 bi ...

(USAID). In the fall of 2012 he moved to

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

, Japan on a Fulbright research fellowship to study the recovery from the 3/11 compound disaster in Tohoku, Japan. He returned to Purdue in the fall of 2013, becoming full professor in the spring of 2015.

Selected works

Aldrich is the author or co-author of five books and more than 70 peer-reviewed articles. His citation rate has been sufficient to place him in the Political Science 400, a list of the most-cited scholars in the field. He has also written news and opinion pieces for various news outlets and magazines.

Books

*''Black Wave: How Connections and Governance Shaped Japan's 3/11 Disasters''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2019) inner, Japan NPO Research Association Award for Outstanding Book*''Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery.'' Chicago:

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(2012). Japanese translation from Minerva (2014). apan NPO Research Association Award for Outstanding Book * ''Site Fights: Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West.'' Ithaca and London:

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, (first edition) 2008, (second edition) 2010. Japanese translation from Sekaishisōsha (2012).Dobson, Hugo
"Book Review: GOVERNMENTS AND THEORIES OF GOVERNANCE Daniel P. Aldrich, Site Fights: Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West"
''Millennium Journal of Asian Studies''. *''Asian Disasters: Community Ties, Market Mechanisms, and Governance.'' New York: Springer Press (with Sothea Oum and Yasuyuki Sawada)(2014) *
Healthy, Resilient, and Sustainable Communities after Disasters: Strategies, Opportunities, and Planning for Recovery
'' Institute of Medicine and National Academies of Science (2015).

Selected articles

* "Capturing Bonding, Bridging, and Linking Social Capital through Publicly Available Data," ''Risks, Hazards, and Crises in Public Policy'', 11(1): 61–86 with Dean Kyne 2020 * "Substitute or complement? How social capital, age and socioeconomic status interacted to impact mortality in Japan's 3/11 tsunami," ''SSM – Population Health'' Vol 7 with Maoxin Ye 2019 * “The Power of People: Social Capital’s Role in Recovery from the 1995 Kobe Earthquake,” ''Natural Hazards'', Vol. 56 No. 3 2011 pp. 595–611 * “Strong Civil Society as a Double-Edged Sword: Siting Trailers in Post-Katrina New Orleans,” ''Political Research Quarterly'', Volume 61, No. 3, September 2008, pp. 379–389 (with Kevin Crook) * “Fixing Recovery: Social Capital in Post-Crisis Resilience,” ''Journal of Homeland Security'', Volume 6, June 2010, pp. 1– 10 * “The Externalities of Social Capital: Post-Tsunami Recovery in Southeast India,” ''Journal of Civil Society'', Vol. 8 No. 1 2011 pp. 81–99 * “Mars and Venus at Twilight: A Critical Investigation of Moralism, Age Effects, and Sex Differences,” ''Political Psychology'', Volume 24, March 2003, pp. 23–40 (with Rieko Kage * “Social, Not Physical, Infrastructure: The Critical Role of Civil Society in Disaster Recovery,” ''Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management'' Vol. 36 Issue 3 July 2012 pp. 398–419 . Winner, Best Paper Award, APSA Public Policy Section.

Early life and education

Career

Selected works

Books

Selected articles

References

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