Jen Ziemke

Background

Associate Professor of Political Science (International Relations), Co-Founder of the International Network of Crisis Mappers and ICCM Conference Series, 911 Paramedic, EMS Instructor & current nursing student (RN/BSN)

Areas of Expertise

International Relations, Conflict and Security, Disasters and Emergency Response, 911 EMS data analysis

911 Paramedic for Lorain County at Lifecare Ambulance. 2019-Present.

EMS Instructor: BLS, ACLS and PALS

Education Currently in process: EMS-I, RN/BSN

Co-Founder and Co-Director of the International Network of Crisis Mappers (www.crisismappers.net/) and conference series:

ICCM 2016 (Manila), sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation

ICCM 2014 (New York), sponsored by Google Crisis Response

ICCM 2013 (Nairobi), UN-Habitat, Spatial Collective, USAID, ESRI

ICCM 2012 (Washington, DC), at the World Bank and GWU

ICCM 2011 (Geneva), hosted by Swiss Confederation and European Commission.

ICCM 2010 (Boston), hosted by Harvard, Tufts and JCU

ICCM 2009 (Cleveland), hosted by JCU and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

Research Interests

What explains the variation in the amount of time it takes both 911 dispatch and responding emergency medical teams to begin responding to an emergency? Using the national registry of patient care reports routed to EMS in the United States (NEMSIS), I analyze over 350 million reports to help understand the variation in response times to emergency calls. Do squad chute times vary by day of the week, time of day, age or gender of the patient, or call type as dispatched? We uncover a latent rank ordering of call types by severity. When the system is clogged with nonurgent calls that could have found treatment elsewhere, and when frequent fliers overuse and abuse the system, overwhelmed emergency teams change response patterns as a result.

Education

The University of Wisconsin-Madison

• PhD-Political Science, 2008.

• Fields: International Relations, Comparative Politics
  Minor: Formal and Quantitative Methodology.

• Archival analysis and event data, conflict event early warning, crisis mapping analytics, spatial econometrics.

Dissertation: From battles to massacres.

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• BA-International Relations, 1997.

Cuyahoga Community College

• EMT-Basic, 2019 - EMT-Paramedic, 2021

Courses Taught

Publications

Ziemke, J., Jayamaha, B., and Jahn, M. (2021, March 25). Crisis mapping and crowdsourcing in complex emergencies. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press.

“Turn and Burn: Loss Dynamics and Civilian Targeting in the Angolan War,” Journal of Economics and Politics. Volume 20(1). Akron, OH: December 2012. Article received the Journal of Economics and Politics’ Young Scholar Award for publications in 2012.

“From Cultures of Participation to the Rise of Crisis Mapping in a Networked World,” with Sophia Liu. In A. Delwiche and J. Henderson, eds. The Participatory Cultures Handbook. Routledge: London. July 2012.

“Crisis Mapping: The Construction of a New Interdisciplinary Field?” Journal of Map and Geography Libraries: Advances in Geospatial Information, Collections and Archives 8(2): 101-117: 9 May 2012.

“Sharing sensitive data on forced migrants,” with Prisca Benelli and Alessandro Guarino. Forced Migration Review: Technology and Communication. Issue 38: Oct. 2011.

Jayamaha, Buddhika, Jen Ziemke, and Molly Jahn. “Criminalized Security and State Capture: Life on the Edge in the Sahel.” Future of Great Power Competition and Conflict. ViTTa. Joint Chiefs of Staff-Department of Defense, Strategic Multilayer Assessment. 2019.

Jayamaha, Buddhika, Jen Ziemke, and Molly Jahn. “Defending the Realm in an Age of Interstitial Warfare.” Future of Great Power Competition and Conflict. ViTTa. Joint Staff-Department of Defense, Strategic Multilayer Assessment. 2019.

Executive Summary. SMA CENTCOM Reach-back Reports. Part V: Sources of Extremism. January 2017. Pentagon.

Executive Summary. Smart Phones for Propaganda. SMA CENTCOM Reach-back Reports. January 2017.

Adagio…crescendo… catastrophe….adagio. SMA CENTCOM Reach-back Reports. Part V: Sources of Extremism. January 2017.

“Conflict Mapping 3.0,” The Magazine of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent. 2014.

“Crisis Mapping: An approach for the empirical analysis of conflict patterns,” Harvard Humanitarian initiative. Working Paper Series.

“What Can Live Crisis Maps tell us about patterns and processes in violent conflicts and war?” In: The Changing Face of Warfare in the 21st Century. International Humanitarian Law Magazine. Australian Red Cross. April 2012.

“Geospatial and Information Communication Technologies Applied to the Health-Security Interface: The Crisis Mappers Revolution: Volunteered Geographic Data and the Applicability of Web 2.0 Technologies to Mass Gatherings,” World Health Organization: Interdisciplinary group on Mass Gatherings. VIAG #18, January 2012.

“The International Network of Crisis Mappers,” in Robert Backhaus, Lorant Czaran, Natalie Epler, Michael Leitgab, David Stevens, Joerg Szarzynski (Eds.): The 4C-Challenge: Communication - Coordination - Cooperation - Capacity Development. Selected contributions to the Fourth United Nations International UN-SPIDER Bonn Workshop on Disaster Management and Space Technology, 2011.

“Crowd-generated Crisis Maps Revolutionize Humanitarian Response.” Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network (JUHAN) Guest Blog Post. October 10, 2011.

“Disaster Relief 2.0 Blog Series: Collaborating for Effective Response”. UN Dispatch: March 28, 2011.

Review of Stathis N. Kalyvas, 2006. The Logic of Violence in Civil War. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Journal of Peace Research, 44(2): March 2007.

Review of Robert Lyons and Scott Straus. Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide. Zone Books, New York: 2006. Journal of Peace Research, 43(6): November 2006.

Peace Brief: “Lessons from Haiti and Beyond: Report from the 2010 International Conference on Crisis Mapping” United States Institute of Peace. With Jessica Heinzelman, D. Roz Sewell and Patrick Meier. March 7, 2011.

Prepared real-time reports and analysis for the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Disaster Simulation Table Top Exercise: Earthquake in Colombia as part of the Crisis Mappers Standby Taskforce Analytic Team. November 15-16, 2010.

Special Report: International Conference on Crisis Mapping,” United States Institute of Peace. 2010.

With Atkeson, Lonna et. al. “Outcomes and Lessons Learned from Polling Voters during election 2004,” Election Science Institute: 2005.

“The Democratic Republic of the Congo” in Countries and their Cultures, Volume 4, Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember: 2001