Emina Herovic, Ph.D., is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Risk Communication and Resilience and joins the University of Maryland after six years of social science research and university teaching. Her research focuses on the social implications of risk, crisis, disaster, and war. Dr. Herovic has worked on grants from the Department of Homeland Security, the National Center for Food Protection and Defense, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. Prior to joining the UMD, she worked on several concurrent projects focusing on building resilience to large scale catastophes at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She has taught a variety of university classes both domestically and abroad including teaching at the University of Kentucky, Kings College Hampstead, Shanghai University, and Tianjin Foreign Studies University. Her work has been published in Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Argumentation and Advocacy, Communication Education, Communication, Culture, and Critique, and Western Journal of Communication. Dr. Herovic earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Kentucky and her B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from Western Kentucky University.