Gary R. Webb
Dr. Gary Webb

Associate Professor
Ph.D.: University of Delaware, 1998

Contact Information:
Phone: (405) 744-6127
Fax: (405) 744-5780
Office: 013 CLB

E-mail: gary.webb@okstate.edu

Personal Web Page

Research Interests: Sociology of Disaster, Crime and Deviance, Organizational Deviance, and Research Methods.

Gary R. Webb, Associate Professor, specializes in the sociology of disaster. He is currently working on two research projects funded by the National Science Foundation. One project involves a study of improvisation among first responders to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 2001 World Trade Center attacks. The other project examines the governmental response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, focusing on organizational and structural barriers in using the Incident Command System. Additionally, he is conducting research on the role of public and private sector organizations in the production and concealment of environmental risks.

At the undergraduate level, he regularly teaches courses in Social Research Methods and Criminology, and at the graduate level, he offers seminars in Organizational Deviance and the Sociology of Disaster.

He serves as Chair of the Arts and Sciences Faculty Council at OSU and as the Secretary/Treasurer of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Disasters.

 
     
   
 
Oklahoma State University
Sociology Department, CLB 006
Stillwater, OK 74078-4062
Phone: (405) 744-6105 • Fax: (405) 744-5780