![A.J Faas](https://blogs.sjsu.edu/experts/files/2022/03/20211001-091-67030_A_J_Faas_Portrait_RCBain_.jpg)
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, the Organizational Studies Program, a member of the Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center. (Photo by: Robert C. Bain/San José State University)
A.J. Faas is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, the Organizational Studies Program and a member of the Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center. His research addresses disasters and environmental crises, with attention to cooperation, reciprocity and mutual aid; postcolonialism and the anthropology of the state; humanitarianism; and displacement and resettlement. Faas’s research includes an ongoing longitudinal study of disaster recovery and resettlement in the Ecuadorian highlands; a collaborative study of COVID-19 and the cumulative effects of successive disasters; and participatory action research projects on disaster preparedness, vulnerability and community-based leadership in San José, California. He holds a doctorate degree in anthropology from the University of South Florida.