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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 Impact 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 advances community disaster resilience and long-term housing recovery using experimental, field-based and computational research methods that pull from engineering, computing and social science fields. Her research aims to identify disparities in impact and recovery processes during and after disasters, identifying systematic barriers, and develop engineering and policy-driven solutions that target resources and address the needs of those with the greatest needs.
Sutley is also PI 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 infrastructure resilience. She also serves as the social science Editor-in-Chief for the ASCE journal Natural Hazards Review.
Select Publications
- Rashid, M.S., & Sutley, E.J. (2026). Managed retreat in the face of sea level rise: A multi-dimensional framework for climate resilience. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 132
- 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.