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Associate Professor & Associate Dean, Impact & Belonging
Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, School of Engineering
University of Kansas
Elaina is the Associate Dean for Inclusion and Belonging in the School of Engineering and an Associate Professor in Structural Engineering at the University of Kansas. Elaina is the Lead U.S. Co-investigator for Retreating from Risk.
Elaina's research focuses on analyzing inequity in communities before disasters, and disparities in impact and recovery processes during and after disasters, identifying systematic barriers, and developing engineering solutions that target resources and address the needs of underserved community members.
As part of a National Institute of Standards and Technology Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning, Sutley is leading a longitudinal field study documenting the seven-year recovery trajectory of a low-income, diverse community faced with two catastrophic flood disasters during the study period. Sutley is also the research co-lead on the Adaptive and Resilient Infrastructures Driven by Social Equity (ARISE) project, performing community engaged research across the state of Kansas on equitable climate adaptation and resilience.
Select Publications
- Rashid, M.S., & Sutley, E.J. (2025). Managed retreat in the face of sea level rise: A multi-dimensional framework for climate resilience. SSRN - Pre-print.
- Armin Enderami, S., Sutley, E.J., & Hofmeyer, S.L. (2022). Defining organizational functionality for evaluation of post-disaster community resilience. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure.
- Sutley, E.J., Dillard, M., & van de Lindt, J.W. (2021). Community resilience-focused technical investigation of the 2016 Lumberton, North Carolina flood: Community recovery one year later. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
- Kim, J.H., & Sutley, E.J. (2021). Implementation of social equity metrics in an engineering-based framework for distributing disaster resources. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
- Sutley, E.J., & Hamideh, S. (2020). Postdisaster housing stages: A Markov Chain Approach to model sequences and duration based on social vulnerability. Risk Analysis.
- van de Lindt, J.W., Peacock, W.G., Mitrani-Reiser, J., Rosenheim, N., Deniz, D., ... Sutley, E., Hamideh, S., et al. (2020). Community resilience-focused technical investigation of the 2016 Lumberton, North Carolina, flood: An interdisciplinary approach. Natural Hazards Review.
- Sutley, E.J., Hamideh, S., Dillard, M.K., Gu, D., Seong, K., & van de Lindt, J.W. (2019). Integrative modeling of housing recovery as a physical, economic, and social process. 13th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering.
- Deniz, D., Sutley, E.J., van de Lindt, J.W., Peacock, W.G., Rosenheim, N., Gu, D., Mitrani-Reiser, J., Dillard, M., Koliou, M., & Hamideh, S. (2019). Flood performance and dislocation assessment for Lumberton homes after Hurricane Matthew. 13th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering.
- Sutley, E.J., & Hamideh, S. (2017). An interdisciplinary system dynamics model for post-disaster housing recovery. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure.
- Sutley, E.J., van de Lindt, J.W., & Peek, L. (2017). Multihazard analysis: Integrated engineering and social science approach. Journal of Structural Engineering.
- Sutley, E.J., van de Lindt, J.W., & Peek, L. (2016). Community-level framework for seismic resilience. I: Coupling socioeconomic characteristics and engineering building systems. Natural Hazards Review.
- Sutley, E.J., van de Lindt, J.W., & Peek, L. (2016). Community-level framework for seismic resilience. II: Multiobjective optimization and illustrative examples. Natural Hazards Review.