Ann Bostrom
Ann Bostrom
Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1990
Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 327
abostrom@u.washington.edu
206.685.8198
Areas of Specialization:
Risk Perception, Communication, and Management; Environmental Policy and Management
Ann Bostrom joined the Evans School faculty in 2007. Her research focuses on risk perception, communication, and management; and environmental policy and decision making.
Bostrom previously served on the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) from 1992-2007, where she most recently was Associate Dean for Research at the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and Professor in the School of Public Policy.
She has authored or contributed to numerous publications, including Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Risk Assessment, Modeling and Decision Support: Strategic Directions (Berlin: Springer, 2008), and National Academy, U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board, and U.S. EPA Board of Scientific Counselors reports.
She has also served as an editor and/or reviewer for numerous technical journals, including Risk Analysis, the Journal of Risk Research, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, Psychological Science, Environmental Science & Technology, and the National Political Science Review.
Much of Bostrom's research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
She is the recipient of several assistantships and fellowships, including: the 1991-92 American Statistical Association/ National Science Foundation/Bureau of Labor Statistics Research Associateship; 1989-90 Fulbright Graduate Research Fellowship and Lois Roth Endowment Fund grant for studies at the University of Stockholm; and the 1988-89 Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon. She is also the recipient of the 1997 Chauncey Starr award for a young risk analyst from the Society For Risk Analysis for her work on mental models of hazardous processes.
Bostrom worked as director of the Decision Risk and Management Science Program at the National Science Foundation from 1999-2001. While in this position she organized, participated in and made presentations at national and international meetings on research and science policy, including but not limited to the Subcommittee on Natural Disaster Reduction and the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program.
Bostrom is a member of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Society for Risk Analysis, American Statistical Association, and American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Bostrom holds a Ph.D. in public policy analysis from Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA from Western Washington University, and a BA in English from the University of Washington.
Curriculum Vitae (1.65MB PDF)
Publications & Links
Books and Reports
- Risk Assessment, Modeling and Decision Support: Strategic Directions, A Bostrom, S French, and S Gottlieb (Eds). (Berlin: Springer, 2008)
- Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach, MG Morgan, B Fischhoff, A Bostrom, and CJ Atman (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
- Seafood Choices: Balancing Benefits and Risks, Committee on Nutrient Relationships in Seafood: Selections to Balance Benefits and Risks, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, MC Nesheim and A Yaktine (Eds) (National Academy Press, 2007)
- "Weather it's Climate Change?" A. Bostrom and D. Lashof, in Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change, SC Moser and L Dilling (Eds) (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Journals and Associations
