Frances L. Edwards, Ph.D., CEM is Associate Professor in the Department. Dr. Edwards is an active researcher and writer. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Public Administration Review (PAR). She is co-author with Friedrich Steinhausler of the first book in the NATO Science Series on first responders and terrorism threats, and with Brian Jenkins of Saving City Lifelines: Lessons Learned in the 9-11 Terrorist Attacks, and has contributed chapters to First to Respond published by MIT Press in 2003, Weapons of Mass Destruction: An Encyclopedia of Worldwide Policy, Technology and History in 2005, and Legal Issues in Emergency Management in 2005. Dr. Edwards has written two chapters and co-authored a third in the Handbook of Crisis and Disaster Management, a chapter in The Hoover Institution’s The New Terror: Facing the Threat of Biological and Chemical Weapons, and chapters in emergency management textbooks. She is an on-line columnist for the ASPA web-based newsletter, and was invited to write a reflection piece on the 9/11 tragedy for the PA Times which has been widely reprinted, and Op-Ed pieces on earthquakes and homeland security funding for the San Jose Mercury News. She has written more than 25 professional journal articles, including “When Government Works: Collaborating to Save Lives” about the MMTF in the May 2002 edition of Leader to Leader Magazine. She is a member of the Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness at Harvard, the Bioterrorism Working Group at Stanford, the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on weapons of mass destruction and the NATO Expert Panel on Nuclear Terrorism. She has served on the MMRS Evaluating Committee of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, and is currently on the MMTF/MMRS National Policy Committee and Region IX Advisory Committee.

Dr. Edwards was the Director of Emergency Preparedness for the City of San Jose, tenth largest city in the United States, for fourteen years. She was responsible for the development of citywide emergency plans, the City’s Emergency Operations Center, and the City’s 140 amateur radio volunteers and over 2000 CERT program members. She was named one of the Silicon Valley Power 100 by San Jose Magazine, and was Governing Magazine’s Public Official of the Year in 2002. Dr. Edwards was Director of the San Jose Metropolitan Medical Task Force (MMTF), the terrorism response unit that has been featured in national publications including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times from 1997-2005. She was also lead staff for the San Jose Urban Area Security Initiative, the federal program to provide homeland security funding to the nation’s largest cities with the highest threat of terrorism, from its inception in 2003 until her transition to San Jose State University.

Dr. Edwards is a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops around the world. She represented emergency management on ABC’s Nightline with Ted Kopple five night “Bio War” series in October, 1999. Most recently she spoke on community based disaster preparedness in Hamamoto, Japan, on the logistical needs of first responders in terrorism events at NATO in Stuttgart, Germany, and on the impact of homeland security programs on local governments at the Natural Hazards Conference at Boulder, Colorado. At the 2002 Hurricane Andrew/Higher Education Conference she spoke on the “Emergency Manager of the Future.” She is also an instructor and research associate at the Mineta Transportation Institute of SJSU. She was a founding faculty member of the Emergency Management Certificate Program at University of California, Irvine and University of California, Santa Cruz, and is part of a steering committee at San Jose State University developing an emergency management emphasis within the Master of Public Administration program.

Dr. Edwards has also worked on social science issues in emergency management. She has served on the review committee for the FEMA-sponsored book on vulnerable populations in disasters, and serves on the Vulnerable Populations Committee of the Santa Clara County Emergency Managers Association, and the Board of Directors of the Volunteer Center of Silicon Valley. She is the current convener for the Santa Clara Valley Collaborating Agencies Disaster Response Effort (CADRE). She is vice chair of the Board of Directors of the Collaborative for Disaster Mitigation, a town/gown cooperative research and application effort.

Dr. Edwards has a Ph.D. in public administration, and a master of urban planning degree from New York University; a MA degree in political science/international relations from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey; and a Certificate in Hazardous Materials Management from University of California, Irvine.

Political Science 114 Syllabus Fall 2006

Political Science 210 Syllabus Fall 2006

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