Prof. Daniel Aldrich is a full professor and Director of the Security and Resilience Studies program at Northeastern University. He specializes in Japanese politics, nuclear power, NIMBY politics, and disaster recovery. Previously at Purdue University, during the 2012-2013 academic year he was a Fulbright research professor at Tokyo University and during the 2011-2012 academic year he was an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow at USAID. His first book project, called SITE FIGHTS: Controversial Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West, focused on how states handle conflict over controversial facilities like nuclear power plants, airports, and dams. His second book BUILDING RESILIENCE (2012 from the University of Chicago) investigated how social capital facilitates recovery following disasters.
