Waugh, William L., Jr. 1948–

PERSONAL:

Born April 16, 1948, in Warrior, AL; son of William L., Sr. (a military officer) and Frances (a homemaker) Waugh; married Deborah McCorkle (a tax accountant), September 11, 1974. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: Attended University of Maryland in Munich West Germany, and at College Park, 1966-68; University of North Alabama, A.B., 1973; Auburn University, M.A., 1976; University of Mississippi, Ph.D., 1980. Politics: Democrat. Hobbies and other interests: Travel, beer brewing, hiking.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Decatur, GA. Office—Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302-3992; fax: 404-413-0104. E-mail—wwaugh@gsu.edu.

CAREER:

Mississippi State University, Starkville, instructor in political science, 1979; Kansas State University, Manhattan, assistant professor of political science, 1980-85; Georgia State University, Atlanta, professor of public administration, 1985—. Emergency Management Accreditation Program Commission, member, 2003—; Family Assistance Foundation, member of board of directors, 1999—; City of Decatur, member of local planning commission. Military service: U.S. Army, Infantry, 1970-71; served in Korea.

MEMBER:

International Association of Emergency Managers, International Research Society for Public Management, International Research Committee on Disasters, International Public Management Network, Humanitarian Practice Network, American Political Science Association, American Society for Public Administration, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), Veterans of Foreign Wars, Amnesty International, Sierra Club.

WRITINGS:

International Terrorism: How Nations Respond to Terrorists, Documentary Publications (Salisbury, NC), 1982.

(Editor, with Ronald John Hy) Handbook of Emergency Management: Programs and Policies Dealing with Major Hazards and Disasters, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1990.

Terrorism and Emergency Management: Policy and Administration, Marcel Dekker (New York, NY), 1990.

(Editor, with Richard T. Sylves) Cities and Disaster: North American Studies in Emergency Management, C.C. Thomas (Springfield, IL), 1990, 2nd edition published as Disaster Management in the U.S. and Canada: The Politics, Policymaking, Administration, and Analysis of Emergency Management, 1996.

(With Ronald John Hy) State and Local Tax Policies: A Comparative Handbook, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1995.

Living with Hazards, Dealing with Disasters: An Introduction to Emergency Management, M.E. Sharpe (Armonk, NY), 2000.

(Editor) Shelter from the Storm: Repairing the National Emergency Management System after Hurricane Katrina, Sage Publications (Thousand Oaks, CA), 2006.

(Editor) The Future of Emergency Management, Federal Emergency Management Agency (Emmitsburg, MD), 2006.

(Editor, with Kathleen Tierney) Emergency Management: Principles and Practice for Local Government, 2nd edition, ICMA Press (Washington, DC), 2007.

SIDELIGHTS:

William L. Waugh, Jr., told CA: "I enjoy getting involved in things that I find important. I serve on the City of Decatur Planning Commission because I am concerned about the quality of life in my community. I work with emergency managers, including serving on the Emergency Management Accreditation Program Commission that sets standards for and accredits state and local emergency management programs, because I believe in the profession and its critical role in American society. There should be no boundaries between academia and the rest of the world.

"Writing is cathartic. It is a solitary process, and finding uninterrupted time is difficult. The real challenge is to understand the reader as well as the subject matter. I try to capture ideas as they are found, string them together late at night, and edit between innings at baseball games and on the train ride to and from the office."