Professor and Head of the Department of Emergency Management

DANIEL J. KLENOW, Ph.D.

Professor and Head of the Department of Emergency Management

North Dakota State University

Fargo, North Dakota

Dr. Daniel J. Klenow is currently a Full Professor and Head of the Department of Emergency Management at North Dakota State University (NDSU). He first became involved in disaster research in 1979 as a participating researcher in a study of a tornado disaster in Wichita Falls, Texas.

As Department Head, Dr. Klenow is involved in program administration, curriculum development, faculty recruiting, and program growth for the department. He is also co-director of the Center for Disaster Studies and Emergency Management at NDSU. He facilitated the transition of the Emergency Management Program from a joint department with Sociology and Anthropology to a freestanding administrative department in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Currently, he serves as the coordinator for the Emergency and Disaster Preparedness Track in the new Master’s of Public Health program offered in collaboration with NDSU’s College of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Allied Health Sciences and the University of North Dakota School of Medicine.

Dr. Klenow is interested in the areas of preparedness; response and recovery; emergency management theory/methods; and emergency management curriculum development. His research has appeared in Social Science and Medicine; International Journal of Aging and Human Development; Pharmacy Management; Omega: The Journal of Death and Dying; Death Studies; Sociological Symposium; Psychotherapy; and the Journal of General Education. He is the author of numerous book chapters, and he has also served as a principal investigator or association investigator on grants from the National Science Foundation; Department of Education; Federal Emergency Management Agency; Alex Stern Foundation; Natural Hazards Center; Maternal and Child Health Division; North Dakota Department of Public Health; and Traffic Safety Programs Division.

Dr. Klenow holds a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and teaches a variety of courses including: International Disasters; Socio-Behavioral Foundations of Emergency Management; Emergency Management Theory; Disaster Case Studies; Research Methods in Emergency Management; Emergency Management Capstone; and a number of related courses.

At the conference, Dr. Klenow is participating in the sessions on “Maintaining and Improving Emergency Management Programs,” “University Politics–Survival and Success,” and “How Emergency Management Research Builds the Base of the Discipline and Serves the Practitioner Community.”

May 1, 2012