Dr. Susan Cutter is a Carolina Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of
South Carolina. She is also the Director of the Hazards Research Lab, a research and
training center that integrates geographical information processing techniques with
hazards analysis and management. She is the co-founding editor of an interdisciplinary
journal, Environmental Hazards, published by Elsevier.

Dr. Cutter has been working in the risk and hazards fields for more than twenty-five
years and is a nationally recognized scholar in this field. She has authored or edited
eight books and more than 50 peer-reviewed articles. Her most recent book, American
Hazardscapes, for the Joseph Henry Press/National Academy of Sciences, chronicles
the increasing hazard vulnerability to natural disaster events in the United States during
the last thirty years.

In 1999, Dr. Cutter was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS), a testimonial to her research accomplishments in
the field. Her stature within the discipline of geography was recognized by her election
as President of the Association of American Geographers in 1999-2000.

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Recent Publications:
Susan L. Cutter (editor), 2001. American Hazardscapes: The Regionalization of
Hazards and Disasters. Washington D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, forthcoming.

Susan L. Cutter, Deborah S.K. Thomas, Micah Cutler, Michael S. Scott, and Jerry T.
Mitchell, 1999. South Carolina Atlas of Environmental Risks and Hazards. Columbia,
SC: University of South Carolina Press, CD-ROM.

Susan L. Cutter and William H. Renwick, 1999. Exploitation, Conservation,
Preservation: A Geographic Perspective on Natural Resource Use, Third Edition.
New York: John Wiley & Sons. 391 pp.

Susan L. Cutter (ed.), 1994. Environmental Risks and Hazards.
Englewood Cliffs:Prentice-Hall. 413 pp.

Susan L. Cutter, 1993. Living with Risk. London: Edward Arnold. 214 pp.

Cutter, S.L., M. E. Hodgson, and K. Dow, 2001. "Subsidized Inequities: The Spatial
Patterning of Environmental Risks and Federally-Assisted Housing", Urban Geography
22 (1): 29-53.

Cutter, S.L., J.T. Mitchell, and M.S. Scott, 2000. "Revealing the Vulnerability of People
and Places: A Case Study of Georgetown County, South Carolina," Annals of the
Association of American Geographers 90 (4):713-737.

Mitchell, J.T., D.S.K. Thomas, A.A. Hill, and S.L. Cutter, 2000. "Catastrophe in Reel
Life versus Real Life: Perpetuating Disaster Myth Through Hollywood Films,"
International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 18 (3): 383-402.

S.L. Cutter, 2000. "Environmental Disasters" in C. Kramarae and D. Spender (eds.),
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and
Knowledge, Volume 2. New York: Routledge, pp. 606-608.

D.S.K. Thomas, J.T. Mitchell, M.S. Scott, and S.L. Cutter, 1999. "Developing a Digital
Atlas of Environmental Risks and Hazards," Journal of Geography 98: 201-207.

Mitchell, J.T., D.S.K. Thomas, and S.L. Cutter, 1999. "Dumping in Dixie Revisited:
The Evolution of Environmental Injustices in South Carolina", Social Sciences
Quarterly 80 (2): 229-243.

Dow, K. and S.L. Cutter, 1998. "Crying Wolf: Repeat Responses to Hurricane
Evacuation Orders", Coastal Management 26: 237-252.

M. S. Scott and S.L. Cutter, 1997. "Using Relative Risk Indicators to Disclose Toxic
Hazard Information to Communities", Cartography and Geographic Information Systems
24 (3): 158-171.

S.L. Cutter and M. Ji, 1997. "Trends in U.S. Hazardous Materials Transportation
Spills," Professional Geographer 49 (3): 318-331.

M. Scott* S.L. Cutter, C. Menzel M. Ji and D. Wagner, 1997. "Spatial Accuracy of the
EPA's Environmental Hazards Databases and Their Use in Environmental Equity
Analyses," Applied Geographic Studies 1(1): 45-61.

S.L. Cutter, 1996. "Societal Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards," International
Social Science Journal 47 (4): 525-536.