DANIEL G. BARBEE, Ph.D.
Professor of Public Administration
The University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Pembroke, North Carolina
Dr. Daniel G. Barbee is a Professor of Public Administration at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP). He also directs the Project on Crisis & Emergency Leadership dealing with training, technical assistance, exercise design and conduct, and applied research. Dr. Barbee teaches in UNCP’s Master’s of Public Administration (MPA) Program, including graduate courses in emergency management. He led the establishment and design of the MPA concentration in Emergency Management.
Dr. Barbee has worked professionally in emergency management for more than 30 years. His experience includes work in research and training (primarily instructional development, exercise design and conduct, and technical assistance). In the exercise arena, he has worked in all exercise categories from tabletops, to functional, to full-scale, including multijurisdictional. Including his work with public entities such as the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and many local governments, Dr. Barbee has engaged in a very wide array of exercise situations, from specific functions such as health and medical, to animal protection and sheltering. He has served as exercise director, controller, evaluator, and subject matter expert in a number of areas of concern in the emergency management field. Dr. Barbee serves as adjunct faculty for FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute in the Integrated Emergency Management Course area, and in the Master Exercise Practitioner Program.
A matter of interest is that Dr. Barbee is a certified mediator and Master Exercise Practitioner. He earned an undergraduate degree in political science from Catawba College, a master of government from Lehigh University, and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Barbee’s current research focuses on the actions of policy-level officials (elected and appointed) in crisis and emergency situations (response and recovery). He also has an expanding interest in the politics of sustainable recovery and mitigation.
June 3, 2011