Bernard A. Jones, DSc

Dr. Jones comes to St. John’s University as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Criminal Justice, Legal Studies, and Homeland Security. He is a certified business continuity and disaster recovery professional with more than 20 years of experience with the review, implementation, and management of enterprise business continuity, disaster recovery, and emergency management programs. His research and teaching interests focus on organizational resilience, disaster preparedness, and emergency management. His research agenda focuses on how organizations quantify their resilience posture, allowing them to work toward addressing their organizational resilience weaknesses and, in turn, enhancing their disaster preparedness.

Additionally, his research interests are shaped by the re-occurrence of disasters and how organizations, communities, and individuals implement enhanced resilience, to best respond to and recover from those disaster events. Serving as emergency management, disaster recovery, and business continuity practitioner for the past 20 years, he has become all too familiar with disasters, which caused significant impacts to organizations, communities, and individuals. His role over the years has centered on how to help impart a culture of disaster preparedness, serving as a means toward enhanced “resilience.” Of primary focus has been researching organizational resilience in other countries around the world, who have faced repeated disaster events like severe weather. One of his overarching goals has been to assist organizations, small and large, public and private, to develop a culture of disaster preparedness through the adaption of enhanced organizational resilience.

Dr. Jones earned a D. Sc. degree from New Jersey City University in the area of civil security leadership, management and policy, an M.S. degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology in Emergency Management – Business Continuity, an M.S. degree from Kean University in Management Information Systems and a B.S. degree from the University of Phoenix in Management Information Systems.

Emergency Management
Homeland Security
Communication, Collaboration & Cooperation
Critical Infrastructure Resource Protection
Crisis Communication & Coordination
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Planning

Organizational Resilience
Disaster & Emergency Management
Business Continuity Metrics & Data Visualization
Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Disaster Preparedness & Response
Critical Infrastructure Resource Resilience

Courses Taught