Elaina Sutley


Elaina Sutley
  • Associate Dean for Impact and Belonging
  • Associate Professor
  • Ph.D., P.E.

Contact Info

Engineering Dean's Office
Eaton, Suite 1B2

Education

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Colorado State University
M.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Alabama
B.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Alabama

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