Lloyd Rogler, the Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York, has a full schedule of activities planned for his week-long visiting Libra Professorship for Diversity at the University of Maine, Nov. 5-9, [2001]

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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Special Collections 10-31-2001 Visiting Libra Professor Lloyd Rogler to Present Week-long Program on Cultural Diversity Gladys Ganiel University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/social_justice  Part of the Higher Education Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, and the United States History Commons Repository Citation Ganiel, Gladys, "Visiting Libra Professor Lloyd Rogler to Present Week-long Program on Cultural Diversity" (2001). Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. 284. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/social_justice/284 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact um.library.technical.services@maine.edu. The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20040119042904/http://www.umaine.edu:80/news/Arch…University of MaineNewsVisiting Libra Professor Lloyd Rogler to Present Week-long Program on Cultural DiversityOct. 31, 2001 Media contact: Gladys Ganiel at (207) 581-3756ORONO – Lloyd Rogler, the Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities at FordhamUniversity in the Bronx, New York, has a full schedule of activities planned for his week-longvisiting Libra Professorship for Diversity at the University of Maine, Nov. 5-9.A public lecture, “The Dictatorship of the Questionnaire: Cultural Explorations in MentalHealth Research,” highlights Rogler’s program. It is set for Monday, Nov. 5 from 7-8:30 p.m.at the University Club at Fogler Library.The goals of the Libra Professorship include increasing the diversity of students and facultyand preparing graduates to understand and appreciate differences in a global society. It alsoseeks to provide students with outstanding faculty models for teaching, research and publicservice.Rogler’s talk will describe how the research methodologies of American social scientists donot work effectively when they are applied without cultural modification. It will draw onRogler’s research in Puerto Rico.“Top-flight American social scientists came to the island to do research, and they were soconcerned with methodologies that they didn’t take Puerto Rican culture into account.Knowing methods is not a substitute for not knowing cultures,” Rogler says.Rogler’s other activities will emphasize the importance of cultural factors in health andillness, culture and health care delivery and culture and the social services in general.He will lecture in eight sociology, psychology, social work and human development classes.He will conduct a workshop and luncheon, “Getting Money for Research: What I learnedfrom Developing the Hispanic Research Center at Fordham University,” on Wednesday, Nov.6 from 12:30-2:30 p.m. in the Mahogany Room at the Wells Conference Center; and acolloquium and reception, “Methodological Sources of Cultural Insensitivity in Mental HealthResearch,” Friday, Nov. 9 from 2:30-4 p.m. in 204 Fernald Hall.Rogler, a native of Puerto Rico, says the growth of different cultures in the United States andincreased international interaction make it important to understand a variety of cultures.“The issue of cultural sensitivity in research is very important, both domestically andinternationally,” he says.Rogler has enjoyed a distinguished 40-year career in sociology and interdisciplinary studies inanthropology, psychology, psychiatry and history.Before his 1974 appointment at Fordham, he held posts at the University of Puerto Rico, Yaleand Case Western Reserve. He founded the Hispanic Research Center at Fordham in 1977 andhas taught or lectured at Columbia University, the New York University/Bellevue Center andthe Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences at Cornell University, HarvardUniversity and the University of Michigan.Even before accepting the Libra Professorship, Maine had long been a part of Rogler’s life.He first visited the state in 1961 and has maintained a cottage in Baileyville, on the St. CroixRiver and the Canadian border, for over 20 years. He uses it as a retreat – for writing and forfishing – during the summer months.“I do all my writing up here. God only knows this is a good place to write. It’s quiet,” Roglersays.Rogler developed academic relationships with colleagues in UMaine’s sociology department,and it was due to those contacts that his appointment as a Libra Professor occurred. He sayshe is looking forward to contributing to academic life in Maine.“I consider it part of my identity to be a Mainer. And it’s not just because I wear Dextershoes,” he says.Rogler’s published works include: “Hispanics and Mental Health: A Framework forResearch,” with L.H. Malgady and O. Rodriguez (1989); “Puerto Rican Families in NewYork City: Intergenerational Processes,” with Rosemary Santana Cooney, a study of howintergenerational processes affect the migration experience (1985); “Migrant in the City: theLife of a Puerto Rican Action Group,” a study of how minority groups develop organizationsto represent their interests (1972); and “Trapped: Families and Schizophrenia,” with AugustB. Hollingshead, a study of how families living in the slums of San Juan coped with mentalillness (1965). From 1993 to 1997 his publications were cited more than once a week, on theaverage, in professional journals in the United States, Australia, Canada, Denmark, France,Germany, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Yugoslavia. 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