Elaina Sutley

- Associate Dean for Impact and Belonging
- Associate Professor
- Ph.D., P.E.
Contact Info
Eaton, Suite 1B2
Education —
Research —
Community Resilience
Natural Hazards and Disasters
Long-Term Housing Recovery
Interdisciplinary Methodologies
Manufactured and Site-Built Houses
Teaching —
First Year as Faculty at KU: 2015
CE 461: Structural Analysis
CE 768: Design of Timber Structures
CE 895: Principles of Sustainability and Resilience
Selected Publications —
Badmus, A.and Sutley, E.J. (2025). “State-of-the-Art Review on Reducing Residential Buildings' Risk to Tornado Hazards.” Frontiers in the Built Environment Wind Engineering and Science, 11: 1543800, DOI: 10.3389/fbuil.2025.1543800.
Mazumder, R.K., and Sutley, E.J. (2024). “A Multi-Step Framework for Measuring Post-Earthquake Recovery: Integrating Essential Infrastructure System’s Serviceability in Building Functionality.’ Elsevier International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 114: 104929, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104929.
Enderami, S.A., Sutley, E.J., Helgeson, J., van de Lindt, J., Duenas-Osorio, L., and Watson, M. (2024). “Measuring Post-Disaster Accessibility to Essential Goods and Services: Proximity, Availability, Adequacy, and Acceptability Dimensions.” Springer NatureJournal of Infrastructure Preservation and Resilience, DOI: 10.1186/s43065-024-00104-0.
Mazumder, R.K., Enderami, S.A., Rosenheim, N., Sutley, E.J., Stanley, M., and Meyer, M. (2023). “Estimating Long-term Homeless K-12 Students after a Catastrophic Flood Disaster.” Elsevier Resilience Cities and Structures, 2(2), 82-92, DOI: 10.1016/j.rcns.2023.07.005.
Enderami, S.A., Sutley, E.J., Mazumder, R.K., and Dumler*, M. (2023). “Virtual Testbeds for Community Resilience Analysis: Step-by-Step Development Procedure and Future Orientation.” Elsevier Resilience Cities and Structures, 2(2), 42-56, DOI: 10.1016/j.rcns.2023.07.002.
Sutley, E.J., and Lyles, L.W. (2023). “Theory of Change: Community Engagement as an Intervention to Create Disaster Resilience.” Frontiers of the Built Environment, Special Collection Technology Transfer from the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI), 9,DOI: 10.3389/fbuil.2023.1172659.
Lakhina, S., Sutley, E.J., and Wilson, J. (2021). “How do we actually do convergence? For disaster resilience: Cases from Australia and the United States.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 12, 299-311, DOI: 10.1007/s13753-021-00340-y.
Sutley, E.J., and Hamideh, S. (2020). “Post-Disaster Housing Stages: A Markov Chain Approach to Model Sequences and Duration Based on Social Vulnerability.” Wiley Risk Analysis, 40(12), 2675-2695, DOI: 10.1111/risa.13576.
Kim, J.H., Moraveg, M.*, Sutley, E.J., Chowdhury, A., and Dao, T. (2020). “Observations and Analysis of Wind Pressures on the Floor Underside of Elevated Buildings.” Elsevier Engineering Structures, 221, 111101, DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2020.111101.
Awards & Honors —
2025 University Scholarly Achievement Award, University of Kansas
2024 Graduate School Centennial Scholar Award, University of Alabama
2024 School of Engineering Bellows Faculty Scholar Award, University of Kansas
2021 School of Engineering Miller Faculty Scholar Award, University of Kansas
2019 Early Career Research Fellow, Gulf Research Program, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
2019 Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award, National Science Foundation
2016 American Society of Civil Engineering Excellence in Civil Engineering Education Fellow