Havidan Rodriguez

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.

Havidán Rodríguez
20th President of the
University at Albany, SUNY
Assumed office
September 11, 2017
Preceded byRobert J. Jones
Personal details
Born (1959-02-24) February 24, 1959
Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Spouse(s)Rosy Lopez
ResidenceAlbany, New York, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Maryland, College Park (BA)
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (MS)
University of Wisconsin–Madison (PhD)
Academic background
ThesisHousehold composition, employment patterns and economic well-being: Puerto Ricans in the United States and Puerto Rico, 1970-1980 (1991)
Doctoral advisor 
Academic work
DisciplineSociology
Institutions

Education

Dr. Havidán Rodríguez earned his 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 any 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 Latinos/as, 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
  1. Rodriguez, Havidan (1986). Puerto Rican female youth: labor force participation in the continental United States (M.S.). University of Wisconsin-Madison. OCLC 15072119.
  2. Rodriguez, Havidan (1991). Household composition, employment patterns and economic well-being: Puerto Ricans in the United States and Puerto Rico, 1970-1980 (Ph.D.). University of Wisconsin-Madison. OCLC 49216510 – via ProQuest.
  3. http://www.albany.edu/news/79681.php
  4. http://www.timesunion.com/7day-breaking/article/Watch-live-at-1-30-p-m-SUNY-trustees-appoint-11232768.php
  5. https://www.hispanicoutlook.com/education-magazine/june-issue-2015#undefined%2F6
  6. http://americanway.ink-live.com/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=75b9cd88-2cc4-494e-9cca-6910da109b30
  7. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498516877/Population-Migration-and-Socioeconomic-Outcomes-among-Island-and-Mainland-Puerto-Ricans-La-Crisis-Boricua
  8. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9780387323312
  9. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319632537
  10. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9780387719412
  11. http://nylprw.org/events/
  12. https://www.nationaldiversitycouncil.org/2017-top-latino-leaders-to-be-honored-at-3rd-annual-latino-leadership-conference/
  13. http://www.insightintodiversity.com/wp-content/media/issues/september2017.pdf
  14. http://www.aaaed.org/aaaed/Awards.asp , http://www.utrgv.edu/en-us/about-utrgv/news/press-releases/2016/june-03-utrgv-provost-receives-national-award-for-advocacy-of-workers-rights-humanitarian-issues/index.htm
  15. http://aahhe.org/Awards/alfredosantos.aspx , https://www.utrgv.edu/en-us/about-utrgv/news/press-releases/2015/april-17-dr-havidan-rodriguez-award/index.htm
  16. http://www.utrgv.edu/en-us/about-utrgv/news/press-releases/2015/june-17-dr-havidan-rodriguez-featured-on-national-magazine-cover/index.htm
  17. "Vice provost receives Delaware Hispanic of the Year award". Udel.edu. 2007-10-24. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Robert J. Jones		 President of University at Albany, SUNY
2017 – present		 Incumbent
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