Marie T. Mora is Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri - St. Louis.

Alberto Dávila is Dean of the Harrison College of Business & Computing and Professor of Economics at Southeast Missouri State University.

Havidán Rodríguez is President and Professor of Sociology of the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY).

Bringing together scholars in fields ranging from economics and sociology to psychology, education, and political science, this volume represents one of the first interdisciplinary studies to analyze the effects of Hurricane Maria, including the slow response and recovery, on island and stateside Puerto Ricans.

Chapter 1: Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico: Context and Ramifications by Marie T. Mora,

Havidán Rodríguez, and Alberto Dávila

Chapter 2: Employment and Wages in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria by María E.

Enchautegui

Chapter 3: Hurricane Maria's Impact on Puerto Rico's Labor Market: Job Losses, Wage Changes

and Recovery of Municipalities Close to the Epicenter by Zadia M. Feliciano

Chapter 4: Hurricane Effects on Industry Employment: Evidence from Puerto Rico by José

Caraballo-Cueto

Chapter 5: Understanding Hurricane Maria: Disaster Response as Transition Management by

Marla D. Pérez-Lugo, Cecilio Ortiz-García, and Didier Valdés

Chapter 6: Health and Healthcare Delivery in Puerto Rico Before and After Hurricane Maria by

Jose M. Fernandez

Chapter 7: The Health Profile of Puerto Ricans Before and After Hurricane Maria by Fernando I.

Rivera, Rebecca Sanchez, Valeria Quiñones, Veronica Arroyo Rodriguez, and Adriana

Solla

Chapter 8: Expected Impacts and Consequences of Hurricane Maria and Power Outages on

Mental Health and Other Morbidity in Puerto Rico: Current Status and Lessons Learned

from the Past by Amy Nitza and Shao Lin

Chapter 9: Facing Disaster in a Complex System: Mental Health Initiatives within the Puerto

Rico Department of Education Post-Hurricane Maria by María Rolón-Martínez, Joy Lynn

Suárez-Kindy, and Rosaura Orengo-Aguayo

Chapter 10: Puerto Rican Visual Art as Social Catharsis: What Post-Hurricane-Maria Art Is

Saying through the Frame of Disaster by Carlos Rivera Santana and Bettina Pérez-

Martínez

Chapter 11: Voter Registration and Turnout among Island-Born and Mainland-Born Puerto

Ricans in the 2018 U.S. Congressional Elections by Mark Hugo Lopez, Antonio Flores,

and Jens Manuel Krogstad

Chapter 12: New York Stands with Puerto Rico: A Case Study of the State University of New

York (SUNY) Response to Hurricane Maria by Havidán Rodríguez, Mark Lichtenstein,

Sally Crimmins Villela, and Michael A. Alfultis

Chapter 13: A Perfect Storm and Then Maria by Alberto Dávila, Marie T. Mora, and Havidán

Rodríguez