And in 2009, the American Sociological Association Section on Children and Youth honored her with the Early Career Award for Outstanding Scholarship. In 2016, Peek received honorable mention for the Leo Goodman Award for Outstanding Contributions to Sociological Methodology from the American Sociological Association Section on Methodology. In 2021, she and Mithra Moezzi received the Best Paper Award from Risk Analysis. Her work has appeared in a variety of scholarly outlets including Nature, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Child Development, Sociological Inquiry, Qualitative Research, and Disasters, among others. Geological Survey funded project on earthquake early warning systems in schools, and she is principal investigator for a recently funded project on reducing social vulnerability to disasters.
Peek is co-principal investigator for an NSF-effort focused on advancing interdisciplinary methods and approaches for hazards and disaster research. She also leads the NSF-supported Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER) and Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Extreme Events Research (ISEEER) networks. Peek is the principal investigator for the NSF-funded CONVERGE facility, which is dedicated to improving research coordination and advancing the ethical conduct and scientific rigor of disaster research.
Congress on the topic of Ensuring Equity in Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. She has conducted field investigations in the aftermath of several major disasters and recently testified before members of the U.S. Peek’s research is currently funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Senate to serve on the Board of the National Institute of Building Sciences. In 2021, she was nominated by President Joseph Biden and approved by the U.S. Peek also helped develop and write school safety guidance for the nation, which resulted in the publication of FEMA P-1000, Safer, Stronger, Smarter: A Guide to Improving School Natural Hazard Safety. She wrote the award-winning book Behind the Backlash: Muslim Americans after 9/11, co-edited Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora and the Handbook of Environmental Sociology, and co-authored Children of Katrina and The Continuing Storm. She is recipient of the Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award for Environmental Sociology. Lori Peek is director of the Natural Hazards Center and professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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