ANDREW RUMBACH Saunders Hall 107F 2424 Maile Way Honolulu, HI 96822 rumbach@hawaii.edu I. EDUCATION PhD City and Regional Planning Cornell University Master of Regional Planning - Cornell University 2007 Bachelor of Arts, Political Science - Reed College 2002 II. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor Department of Planning and Design, University of Colorado Denver Assistant Professor Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa Visiting Lecturer Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University 2013 present - 2013 Fall 2009 III. PUBLICATIONS REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES Rumbach, Andrew and Neema Kudva. Putting People at the Center of Climate Change Adaptation Plans: A Vulnerability Approach. Risk, Hazards, & Crisis in Public Policy 2(4): 1-23. Rumbach, Andrew. Challenges of Disaster Response. In Forrester, John (Ed.) Interface: New Orleans. Planning Theory and Practice 9(4): 517-564. Reardon, Kenneth, Marcel Ionescu- Heroiu, and Andrew Rumbach. Equity Planning in Post-Katrina New Orleans: Lessons from the 9th Ward s ACORN Housing / University Partnership. Cityscapes 10(3): 29-48. 2008 2008 BOOK CHAPTERS Rumbach, Andrew. Cities at Risk. In Miraftab, Faranak and Neema Kudva (Eds). Cities of the Global South Reader. London & New York: Routledge. Hayes, Richard and Andrew Rumbach. Afterword. In Forrester & Reardon (Eds). Learning for a Change: The Story of the People s Plan for Overcoming the Hurricane Katrina Blues. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1
Forester, John, Andrew Rumbach and Ken Reardon. Working Against the Odds: Mobilizing Three University Teams to Collaborate With an Activist Community Organization. In Forrester & Reardon (Eds). Rumbach, Andrew. From Crowbars to Community Recovery: A Planning Education in the Eye of the Storm. In Forrester & Reardon (Eds). Rumbach, Andrew. Planning for Disaster Recovery: Views from New Orleans in Hanley, Lisa (Ed). The United States: Perspectives of the City from Across the Social Sciences. Quito: OLACCHI. PROFESSIONAL REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS Rumbach, Andrew. Natural Gas Drilling in the Marcellus Shale: An Analysis of Potential Impacts on the Tourism Economy of the Finger Lakes Region. Prepared for the Southern Tier Central Planning Board (Corning, New York). Brown, Warren, Susan Christopherson, Yael Levitte, Ned Rightor, and Andrew Rumbach. Building Regional Economies Through Targeted Workforce Development. Prepared for the New York State Association of Counties (NYSAC) and the New York State Department of Labor. Rumbach, Andrew, Akosua Asare, and Neema Kudva. Report on an Urban Needs Assessment of the Informal Settlements of Kampala. Prepared for Mercy Corps, Uganda. Rumbach, Andrew. A Role in Recovery: Reflections on a Rocky Relationship. News03 (A publication of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University). The ACORN Housing/University Partnership. The People s Plan for Overcoming the Hurricane Katrina Blues. Dec 2010 Dec 2008 Feb 2008 Fall 2007 Jan 2007 IV. GRANTS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS EXTERNAL GRANTS Principal Investigator The Ford Foundation and the Planning of Calcutta (1961-1972). Rockefeller Archive Center Grant-in-Aid Program ($3,000) Co-Investigator Capacity Building for Community Resilience: Sustainable Ecosystem and Disaster Resilience at the Village Level, American Samoa. NOAA ($366,000) Principal Investigator Planning for Disaster: The Co-Evolution of Flood Vulnerability and Kolkata s Salt Lake Township. The Clarence S. Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies ($24,000) 2013- - 2013 2009-2
INTERNAL GRANTS Young Upwardly Mobile Professors Grant Program the Center for Faculty Development and the Department of Planning & Design, University of Colorado Denver ($1,000) Professional Development in Research Travel Grant - Social Science Research Institute, University of Hawaii, Manoa ($2,000) 2013, 2012, 203 Graduate School Summer Research Grant, Cornell University ($3,500) 2010 Graduate Research Travel Grant, Cornell University ($1,200-$2,000) 2008, 2009, 2010 FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS Gill Chin-Lim Award for Best Dissertation on International Planning The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning & Global Planning Educator s Interest Group J. William Fulbright Research Fellowship Institute of International Education and the U.S. Department of State (Kolkata, India) National PERIship Award in Hazards, Risk, and Disasters The Natural Hazards Center, Public Entity Risk Institute and Swiss Re (India) Critical Language Scholarship, Hindi Intensive Summer Institute - The U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and The Council of American Overseas Research Centers (Jaipur, India) Graduate Student of the Year Award The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (Central New York Region) Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), Hindi/Urdu - United States Department of Education Kermit C. Parsons and Janet I. Parsons Scholarship for Public Service College of Art, Architecture, and Planning (Cornell University) 2009-2010 2009-2010 2009 2009 2006-2008 2007 V: LECTURES, CONFERENCES AND PAPER PRESENTATIONS INVITED LECTURES AND TALKS Invited Paper Disaster Governance in Small Urban Places Issues, Trends and Concerns. Disaster Governance: the Urban Transition in Asia. National University of Singapore (Singapore). Invited Panelist Emerging Issues in Environmental Planning, Urban Services and the Role of Citizenry. Hawaii chapter of the American Planning Association (Honolulu, Hawaii). November 2013 May 2013 3
Invited Lecture Water Bodies, Vulnerable Bodies: Shifting Landscapes of Risk in Peri-Urban Kolkata. International Cultural Studies Certificate Program (ICSCP) Speaker Series, University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu, Hawaii). Invited Speaker, with Dolores Foley (UH Manoa) Building Resilient Communities Lessons from American Samoa. NOAA Pacific Services Center (Honolulu, Hawaii). Invited Lecture Plan Making and the Making of Modern Disaster. Department of Geography Lecture Series, University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu, Hawaii). Invited Lecture The Family, the Fale, and the Village: Planning for Disaster Resilience in American Samoa. The International Studies in Planning Lecture Series, Cornell University (Ithaca, New York). Invited Lecture Building Resilient Communities: Stories from the United States, India, and Uganda. The East West Center Lecture Series (Honolulu, Hawaii). Invited Speaker The City Vulnerable: New Town Planning, Informality and the Geography of Disaster in Kolkata. The South Asia Water Conference (Ithaca, New York). Invited Speaker Community-University Partnerships in Disaster Risk Reduction Lessons from New Orleans and Uganda. Seminar on Sustainability and Landslide Disaster Management (Kalimpong, India). Invited Paper The Importance of Urban Heritage Studies in Disaster Recovery Planning: The Case of New Orleans, Louisiana. National Conference on Conservation of Architectural and Urban Heritage (Kolkata, India). Invited Lecture Only by the Grace of God The Political Ecology of Urban Disasters. The Department of Design Criticism at the School of Visual Arts - Spring Lecture Series (New York City, New York). Invited Speaker New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina: Lessons for Urban Risk Reduction. Oxfam E-Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation. Oct 2012 June 2012 April 2012 March 2012 Feb 2012 April May 2010 Feb 2010 Mar 2009 Feb 2009 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Paper Presentation A House of (Concrete) Cards: Small Cities and the Future of Disaster Risk in Asia. Urban Affairs Association (San Francisco, California). Paper Presentation Family, Faith and the Fale: Tsunami Recovery and Community Resilience in American Samoa. ACSP annual conference (Cincinnati, Ohio). Invited Discussant Planning Practice and Everyday Urbanism. ACSP annual conference (Salt Lake City, Utah). April 2013 Nov 2012 Oct 4
Paper Presentation The Politics of Planning in Post-Independence Calcutta. ACSP annual conference (Salt Lake City, Utah). Paper Presentation Disaster, Uncertainty, and the Role of Participatory Planning. The International Disaster and Risk Conference (Davos, Switzerland). Paper Presentation The Vulnerable City: The Role of Planning in Urban Disaster Studies. Planners Network Conference (New Orleans, Louisiana). Oct Aug 2008 June 2007 VI. TEACHING GRADUATE COURSES Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Recovery Planning in Developing Countries Planning History Research Design (Cornell) Resilience: Theory & Practice UNDERGRADUATE COURSES Building Community Resilience The American City (Cornell TA & Section Instructor) The Global City (Cornell TA & Section Instructor) Disaster and the Modern City (Cornell) PROFESSIONAL COURSES Coastal Community Resilience Social Media for Disaster Recovery and Response NDPTC & FEMA VII. SERVICE SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT MURP curriculum committee MURP & PhD admissions committee Planning Accreditation Board (PAB) accreditation renewal committee MURP capstone requirements ad-hoc committee -2012 Tenure track faculty search committee -2012 5
SERVICE TO THE COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY College of Social Sciences curriculum committee Core Faculty Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance Certificate Program Affiliate Faculty Center for South Asian Studies & The Public Policy Center 2012 - present SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY & PROFESSION Panel Discussant ACSP annual meeting 2012 Course instructor and subject matter expert FEMA National Disaster Preparedness Training Center (Honolulu, HI) Founding member Reed College Switchboard (social media driven platform for networking and career services). Advisory board member - Reed College Public Policy Lecture Series Invited speaker Cities and Disasters. World Town Planning Day, hosted by the Hawaii chapter of the American Planning Association External Thesis Advisor School for Visual Arts (SVA), Department of Design Criticism 2009-2010 Member, Organizing Committee - Planners Network Conference 2007 ADVISING MURP committee chair (1) MURP committee member (9) PhD committee member (4) DMHA capstone advisor (7) JOURNAL AND MANUSCRIPT REVIEW Disasters Sage Publications International Planning Development Review 2012 present 2013 - present 6