Greg Bankoff, Prof. Dr.

University of Hull
Email: G.Bankoff@hull.ac.uk

Fellow der Forschungsgruppe

Qualifications

Aug 1984 - Oct. 1990	Ph.D. Murdoch University, Western Australia (awarded February 1991), thesis topic: 'Crime, Society & the State in the Nineteenth Century Philippines'.
July 1983 - July 1984	Diploma in Education, Murdoch University, Western Australia (Social Studies & English).
1977 - 1981	B.A. Honours Latin American Studies, Portsmouth University UK. [1978-79 spent in Paraguay].

Present Appointment

July 2007 – present	Chair of Modern History, Department of History, University of Hull, United Kingdom
Jan. 2008 – present	Visiting Professor of Asian Studies, Department of Modern Languages & Cultures, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Sep. 2007 – present	Honorary Research Associate, School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Career

Feb. 2002 – June 2007	Associate-Professor Southeast Asia, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
July 2004 – 2006	Professor (Visiting) of Disaster Management, School of Science & Environment, Coventry University, United Kingdom
Sep. 2003- June 2004	Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar, Netherlands
July 2002 – July 2003	Research Fellow, Disaster Studies, Landbouw-universiteit Wageningen, Wageningen, Netherlands
Feb. 1998 – Jan 2002	Senior Lecturer Southeast Asia, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Jan. 1994 – Jan 1998	Lecturer Southeast Asia, History, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
May 1993 - Dec 1993	Lecturer Asian Studies, Australian Catholic University, Mitchelton, Brisbane, Qld. 4053, Australia.
July 1991 - May 1993	Research Officer/Fellow, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Perth WA 6150, Australia
Jan. 1991 - July 1991	Lecturer Asian Studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Perth WA 6150, Australia

Recent relevant Publications (selection)

Willie Smith, Christian Davies-Colley, Alec Mackay, and Greg Bankoff, 'The Social Impact of the 2004 Manawatu Floods and the "Hollowing-out" of Rural New Zealand', Disasters, forthcoming 2011.
Greg Bankoff, 'There are No Such Things as "Natural Disasters"; That is Why We Had to Invent Them', Harvard International Review, forthcoming 2010.
Greg Bankoff and Dorothea Hilhorst, 'The Politics of Risk in the Philippines: Comparing State and NGO Perceptions of Disaster Management', Disasters, 33, 4, 2009, pp. 686-704.
Greg Bankoff, 'Fire and Quake in the Construction of Old Manila', Medieval History Journal, 10, 1/2, 2007, pp.411-427.
Greg Bankoff, 'Comparing Vulnerabilities: Toward Charting an Historical Trajectory of Disasters', Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung, 32, 3, 2007, pp.103-114.
Greg Bankoff, 'Cultures of Coping: Adaptation to Hazard and Living with Disaster in the Philippines', Philippine Sociological Review, 51, 1/4, 2003 [published 2006], pp.1-16.
Greg Bankoff, 'Time is of the Essence: Disasters, Vulnerability and History', International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 22, 3, 2004, pp.23-42.
Greg Bankoff, Georg Frerks and Thea Hilhorst (eds.), Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters, Development and People, London: Earthscan, 2004
Greg Bankoff, Cultures of Disaster. Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines, London: RoutledgeCurzon Press, 2003.
Greg Bankoff, 'Discoursing Disasters: Paradigms of Risk and Coping', Trialog A Journal for Planning and Building in the Third World, 73, II, 2002, pp.3-7.
Greg Bankoff, 'Disasters: A Question of History?' in Ben Wisner, Jean-Christophe Gaillard and Ilan Kelman (eds.) Handbook of Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction, London and New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2011.
Greg Bankoff, 'Vorzeichen für das neue Jahrhundert? Der Tsunami im Indischen Ozean 2004 und der Hurrikan Katrina im Golf von Mexiko 2005'(The Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004 and Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico 2005: Portends of the New Century?) in Gerrit Jasper Schenk (ed.) Katastrophen: Vom Untergang Pompejis bis zum Klimawandel, Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2009, pp.191-204.