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Associate Professor
Coastal Resilience, School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences
Stony Brook University
Sara is an Associate Professor of Coastal Resilience at Stony Brook University in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. Her specializations are in disaster recovery and community resilience. Sara conducts interdisciplinary research on housing recovery, the dynamics of social vulnerability in recovery, and recovery policy to provide actionable knowledge for reducing disparities in recovery.
Sara's teaching specializations include disaster resilience, environmental planning and policy, planning analytical methods, and urban sustainability. She is an Investigator on several federally funded research projects about community resilience, including the Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning at Colorado State University funded by National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Select Publications
- Motlagh, F., & Hamideh, S. (2025). A decision framework for equitable use of federal funds for voluntary buyout programs. Sustainability 17 (3).
- Hamideh, S., Gillis Peacock, W., & Van Zandt, S. (2021). Housing type matters for pace of recovery: Evidence from Hurricane Ike. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 57.
- Helgeson, J., Hamideh, S., & Sutley, E.J. (Eds.). (2021). Community resilience-focused Technical Investigation of the 2016 Lumberton, NC flood: Community impact and recovery following successive flood events. NIST Special Publication 1230-3.
- Hamideh, S. (2020).Opportunities and challenges of public participation in post-disaster recovery planning: Lessons from Galveston, TX. Natural Hazards Review 21 (4).
- Sutley, E.J., & Hamideh, S. (2020). Postdisaster housing stages: A Markov chain approach to model sequences and duration based on social vulnerability. Risk Analysis 40 (12).
- Sutley, E.J., & Hamideh, S. (2018). An interdisciplinary system dynamics model for post-disaster housing recovery. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure 3 (3).
- Hamideh, S., Gillis Peacock, W., & Van Zandt, S. (2018). Housing recovery after disasters: Primary versus seasonal and vacation housing markets in coastal communities. Natural Hazards Review 19 (2).
- Hamideh, S., & Rongerude, J. (2018). Social vulnerability and participation in disaster recovery decisions: public housing in Galveston after Hurricane Ike. Natural Hazards 93.