Ming Xie | The Conversation
Assistant Professor of Emergency Management and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyMing Xie is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Emergency and Disaster Health Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Ming was an Assistant Professor and the Emergency Management Administration Program Director at the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice at West Texas A&M University from 2020 to 2024. She earned her Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Nebraska-Omaha and a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her research interests focus on vulnerable communities' disaster preparedness and resilience, nonprofit and public management, organizational communication, civil society, intercultural communication, and information technology.
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FEMA was created in 1979 with the job of coordinating national responses to disasters, but the federal government has played important roles in disaster relief since the 1800s.
