Tracy Kijewski-Correa

Tracy Kijewski-Correa is the William J. Pulte Director of the Pulte Institute for Global Development in the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, where she was the founding Academic Director of the School’s Integration Lab (i-Lab). A fellow with a number of campus institutes, she also serves as a member of advisory bodies to Notre Dame’s Poverty and Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiatives. As a professor of Civil Engineering and Global Affairs, her research seeks to enhance the resilience and sustainability of hazard-exposed communities, with particular emphasis on climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction. She currently serves as the inaugural director of NSF’s Structural Extreme Event Reconnaissance (StEER) network mobilizing networks of engineers to assess disaster impacts globally. This complements her interdisciplinary work on household recovery from disasters, which most recently focused on compounding disasters along the US Gulf Coast and Haiti. She has received awards from the American Society of Civil Engineering, American Political Science Association, the UK’s Institution of Civil Engineers, American Association of Wind Engineering and the International Association for Wind Engineering, among others. Kijewski-Correa is formally trained as a Civil Engineer, earning her Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and PhD from the University of Notre Dame.