Английская Википедия:Havidán Rodríguez

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Havidán Rodríguez (born February 24, 1959, in Arecibo, Puerto Rico) is an American sociologist and university administrator. He is currently the president of the University at Albany, SUNY. He earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Education

Rodríguez earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park, his master's degree in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee,[1] and his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1991.[2] His Ph.D. field of specialization was demography, an area in which he continues to publish, along with his interdisciplinary work.

Career

Rodríguez was named the 20th president of the University at Albany, SUNY by the State University of New York Board of Trustees on June 21, 2017,[3] a position he assumed in September 2017. He is the first Latino president of a SUNY campus.[4] Prior to this position, Rodríguez served as founding provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, interim president of University of Texas–Pan American, and deputy provost at University of Delaware. His first academic position after earning his Ph.D. was at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.

Rodríguez has been featured in The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education,[5] the January/February 2018 issue of Latino Leaders Magazine, The Minority Report. He was interviewed about Puerto Rico's economic crisis by El Nuevo Día in June 2018, and included as a "trailblazer" in the December 2017 American Way.[6]

Research and scholarship

Rodríguez has published prolifically in the social science aspects of disasters (including the vulnerability and resiliency to disasters), and socioeconomic well-being among minorities, particularly Latinx, in the United States (including the migration, education, and socioeconomic mobility among Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico and the Contiguous United States). He has led and participated in a number of field research projects, including trips to Honduras, following Hurricane Mitch, India and Sri Lanka following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, and the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina. He has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, Rodríguez is co-author (with Marie T. Mora and Alberto Dávila) of Population, Migration, and Socioeconomic Outcomes among Island and Mainland Puerto Ricans: La Crisis Boricua (Lexington Books, November 2017).[7] He is also the co-editor of Handbook of Disaster Research (with Quarantelli and Dynes, Springer, 2006);[8] Handbook of Disaster Research, 2nd Edition (with Trainor and Donner, Springer, 2018);[9] and Latinas/os in the United States: Changing the Face of América (with Rogelio Sáenz and Menjívar, Springer, 2008).[10]

Honors and awards

References

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