Residence Edinburg, TX, USA Spouse(s) Rosy Lopez | Occupation Administrator Name Havidan Rodriguez | |
Born February 24, 1959 (age 65) ( 1959-02-24 ) Arecibo, Puerto Rico,
USA Alma mater University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, University of Maryland, College Park |
A Message from UAlbany President-elect Havidán Rodríguez
Havidan Rodriguez (born February 24, 1959) is the President Ad-Interim of The University of Texas–Pan American (UTPA). This announcement was made by The University of Texas System Chancellor on July 25, 2014. Prior to this position, Rodriguez served as the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and a tenured professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at UTPA. He has a distinguished career in educational leadership, teaching, research, and community service.
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- A Message from UAlbany President elect Havidn Rodrguez
- Education
- Administrative appointments
- Teaching appointments
- Fellowships honors and awards
- Research interests
- References
Before his arrival at UTPA, Rodriguez served as Deputy Provost at University of Delaware (UD), where he also was a professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and former Director of the Disaster Research Center, the oldest and one of the leading social science disaster research centers in the world.
Prior to working at UD, Rodriguez, who obtained his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, held a faculty position and several administrative positions at the University of Puerto Rico–Mayaguez for over a decade and served from 1995 to 1998 as Director of the Minority Affairs Program for the American Sociological Association. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan's Population Fellow's Program (Summers, 2001-2003); was selected as the Frey Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (Spring, 2002); received a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) Outstanding Achievement Award (2004); and was recognized as one of the Hispanics of the Year in the State of Delaware, for which he received the Professional Achievement Award (2007). Rodriguez has served on a number of committees for the National Academies of Sciences and on review panels for the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation, and was the chair of the Latina/o Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.
Education
Rodriguez earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Maryland, his master's degree in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His Ph.D. field of specialization was demography.
Administrative appointments
Teaching appointments
Fellowships, honors and awards
Research interests
Rodriguez's research interests include not only the study of socio-economic impact of disasters, but also the vulnerability and resiliency to disasters. He is one of the editors of the "Handbook of Disaster Research" ISBN 978-0-387-32353-4.
He has published on economic well-being among minorities in the United States, and also on the migration, education, and economic mobility among Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico and the United States Mainland.