Brittany “Brie” Haupt, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness Department. Within the public administration and emergency and crisis management enterprise, Dr. Haupt focuses on cultural competence development; crisis communication along with conceptualization, planning and response strategies; educational competencies; and community resilience. Her body of work includes over 21 peer-reviewed journal articles, numerous conference presentations, and grant funding.

Her work can be seen in Administrative Theory & Praxis; International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters; International Journal of Public Sector Management; Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management; Journal of Emergency Management; Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management; Journal of International Risk and Crisis Communication; Journal of Public Affairs Education; Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs; Journal of Security, Intelligence, and Resilience; Natural Hazards Review; Nonprofit Management and Leadership; Public Administration Review; Public Integrity; Risk, Hazards and Crises in Public Policy; Sustainability; Teaching Public Administration, and more.  

Dr. Haupt also received the 2024 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs and the 2024 Outstanding Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Award sponsored by the University of Central Florida from Federal Emergency Management Agency Higher Education Symposium.

Haupt's first award-winning book with Dr. Claire Connolly Knox on Cultural Competence for Emergency and Crisis Management: Concepts, Theories, and Case Studies is available for purchase. This text offers educators a roadmap for successfully engaging participants in various aspects of cultural competency knowledge, skills, and abilities. This text received the American Society of Public Administration's Section on Democracy and Social Justice's 2021 Book of the Year Award. 

Haupt’s second award-winning book, with Dr. Lauren Azevedo, Crisis Communication Planning and Strategies for Nonprofit Leaders is available for purchase. This text fills a gap within the nonprofit literature concerning crisis communication planning by discussing the evolution of crisis communication planning, the unique position of nonprofit organizations and the crises they face, along with provision of conceptual and theoretical frameworks to generate effective crisis communication plans for nonprofit organizations to utilize. In 2023, this book received the inaugural Outstanding Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award by the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs and Administration (NASPAA).