The Risk and Disaster Topical Interest Group (TIG) is once again organizing a large cluster of panels for the 2015 Annual Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) in Pittsburgh. In the last two years, there has been an upward trend in the number of disaster-related papers and panels at the SfAA meetings. This year’s conference theme, Continuity and Change, lends itself well to maintaining this momentum and constitutes a particularly fitting topic around which we are organizing and considering the anthropology and applied social science of risk and disasters.