Dr. Hendricks is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at the University of Maryland. He is also the Director of the SIRJ Lab and an Affiliated Research Faculty in the Clark School of Engineering’s Center for Disaster Resilience. His primary research interests include stormwater infrastructure planning and management, social vulnerability to disaster, environmental justice, hazard mitigation, sustainable development, public health and the built environment, and participatory action research. He takes a mixed-methods approach to his research that includes both quantitative and qualitative methods such as multiple regression, cross-sectional research, spatial mapping, in-depth interviewing, participatory action research, and different forms of spatial and analytic epidemiology, among others.
Some of Dr. Hendricks’ work on COVID-19:
Transforming Public Safety and Urban Infrastructure to Mitigate Climate and Public Health Disasters
COVIDCalls 7.24.2020 COVID-19, Disasters, & Infrastructure with Marccus Hendricks
While at UMD, Dr. Hendricks has received two early-career awards from both the National Academies of Science Gulf Research Program and The JPB Environmental Health Fellows Program at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. He also participated in a congressional briefing entitled “Addressing the Impact of Climate Change on Public Health and Natural Disasters” on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, and was quoted from his participation in Scientific American. He has also been featured in public media on the local morning show Get Up DC and Grist Magazine discussing the Ellicott City, MD floods. He is a Faculty Research Affiliate with the Clark School of Engineering’s Center for Disaster Resilience, the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, and the Environmental Finance Center.
Dr. Hendricks is a founding fellow of the William Averette Anderson Fund (the first national interdisciplinary organization working to increase the number of underrepresented persons of color in the field of disaster research, practice, and pedagogy) and currently serves as a board member for the Fund. He holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Science and a Master of Public Health, both from Texas A&M University. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of North Texas.