Larysa Murray, a doctoral candidate in emergency management at Jacksonville State University, will spend the next six months in town conducting research for her dissertation, which uses Haines’s response to the December 2020 landslide as a case study for disaster management in rural and remote communities.
Murray hopes to defend her dissertation this May. Her research is centered around two broad questions: 1) how do remote communities adapt and innovate in disaster management? And 2)…