Dr. Shaw Bonds earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Indiana University, where her dissertation research focused on the hurricane recovery processes of Gulf Coast postsecondary institutions. In studying how higher education institutions respond to moments of crisis and tragedy, her research has focused on the role, function, and process of institutional change along the post-disaster recovery pathway.
For the past 8 years, Mahauganee has developed and instructed courses and modules on emergency management and organizational leadership, led workshops and trainings in these areas, and disseminated her research findings through keynote addresses, publications, and presentations. She has given more than 60 presentations focused on these topics to diverse audiences of student affairs professionals spanning functional areas and levels, educational researchers, graduate admission professionals, emergency managers in different industries, and campus planners and architects. While crises are often considered unpredictable events that happen to a community, Mahauganee asserts that crises of varying levels are highly predictable if we focus on the proper indicators.
As the 2017-18 Fellow for the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) , she undertook a project that examined the decision-making processes involved in the erection of permanent memorial structures, as well as the purposes and intended functions of those memorials. This is an extension of previous research that examined the role memorials play in helping a community move past tragedy. Other ongoing research focuses on the overexposure of HBCUs and communities of color to disasters, pedagogical methods for teaching crisis management skills to educators, and the historical nature of contemporary vulnerabilities to weather and climate hazards.
For the past 8 years, Mahauganee has developed and instructed courses and modules on emergency management and organizational leadership, led workshops and trainings in these areas, and disseminated her research findings through keynote addresses, publications, and presentations. She has given more than 60 presentations focused on these topics to diverse audiences of student affairs professionals spanning functional areas and levels, educational researchers, graduate admission professionals, emergency managers in different industries, and campus planners and architects. While crises are often considered unpredictable events that happen to a community, Mahauganee asserts that crises of varying levels are highly predictable if we focus on the proper indicators.
As the 2017-18 Fellow for the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) , she undertook a project that examined the decision-making processes involved in the erection of permanent memorial structures, as well as the purposes and intended functions of those memorials. This is an extension of previous research that examined the role memorials play in helping a community move past tragedy. Other ongoing research focuses on the overexposure of HBCUs and communities of color to disasters, pedagogical methods for teaching crisis management skills to educators, and the historical nature of contemporary vulnerabilities to weather and climate hazards.
