Committees and Councils
Executive Committee
- Brian D Williams PhD, MSG(Ret)
Executive Director
Center of Resiliency
Email: bwilliams9@lamar.edu
Research interests:
Understanding the knowledge gap between practice and research for Emergency Management; specifically, the implications of social vulnerability to community resilience through social, political, and economic policy.
- Dr. Ginger Gummelt
Department: Social Work
Email: vgummelt@lamar.edu
Associate Professor, Director of Social Work Program
Research interests:
- Children and violence
- Mental health issues for athletes
- Vulnerable populations
- Sexual abuse and sexual assault
- Women's issues
- Dr. Matt Pyne
Department: Biology
Email: mpyne@lamar.edu
Associate Professor
Research interests: Understanding the relationship between the distribution of aquatic organisms and the structure, climate, and hydrology of freshwater aquatic systems.
- Dr. James Slaydon
Department: Finance
Email: slaydonjl@lamar.edu
Professor and Director, New Programs Initiatives
Research interests:
- Resiliency after natural disasters
- Regional economic development
- Real estate.
- Dr. Jill E. Killough
Department: Nutrition, Hospitality & Human Services
Email: jekillough@lamar.edu
Department Chair
Research interests:
- Community-based participatory research to food disparities and insecurity
- Quality improvement processes in nutrition and dietetics practice
- Dr. Berna Tokgoz
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Email: btokgoz@lamar.edu
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Resilience Engineering
- Risk Analysis
- Systems Engineering
- Complex Systems
- Dr. Jeannette Fresne
Department: College of Fine Arts & Communication
Email: jfresne@lamar.edu
Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts & Communication
Professor of Music
Research interests:
External Advisory Council
- Chair - Carman Apple
TDEM (Texas Divisoin of Emergency Management)
- Vice-Chair - Miguel Pavon
TWDB (Texas Water Development Board)
- Jonathan Brazzell
NWS (National Weather Service) Lake Charles
- Shanna Burke
SETRPC (Southeast Texas Regional Planning Commission)
- David Gorsich
ExxonMobil
- Gabriel Gross
Jefferson County GIS
- Scott Hall
LNVA (Lower Neches Valley Authority)
- Andrew Lee
TxDOT (Texas Department of Transportation)
- Jennifer Ren
Water Center - Texas A&M University, Kingsville
- Flozelle Roberts
Director - Port Arthur Department of Public Works
- Frank Shannon
Entergy
- Billy Ted Smith
Jasper Emergency Management
- Michelle Tubbleville
Orange County Disaster Recovery
- Michelle Brewer
Jefferson County Disaster Recovery
- Tim White
Resident Engineer - USACE (US Army Corps of Engineers), Port Arthur