Patrick S. Roberts

 Patrick S. Roberts is a professor in the Center for Public Administration & Policy in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech in Arlington, Virginia. He specializes in public management, democratic accountability, and the governance of disasters and emergencies. For 2017-2018, he served as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in Nuclear Security at the State Department. Patrick holds a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Virginia, and he spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow, one at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and another at the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University. He spent 2010-11 as the Ghaemian Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Heidelberg Center for American Studies in Germany. He has also been a reporter for the Associated Press. Patrick has published in a variety of scholarly and popular journals, and his research has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Korean KHRIS research institute, and the Social Science Research Council. He is the author of the book Disasters and the American State: How Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Public Prepare for the Unexpected.