His areas of expertise include the social demographics of hazard epidemiology, environmental sociology, sociology of risk and risk perception, quantitative research methods, social inequality, and social theory. Havidán Rodríguez is provost and vice president for Academic Affairs for the University of Texas-Pan American. He previously was at the University of Delaware, where he was deputy provost and director of the Disaster Research Center, the oldest and one of the world’s leading social science centers in this field. References