Biographical Sketch

Lloyd H. Rogler, Ph.D.
Albert Schweitzer Professor Emeritus
Fordham University
9 Round Hill Road, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
(914) 693-1765, FAX: (914) 478-2486, E-mail: rogler@fordham.edu

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Professor Lloyd H. Rogler began his research career as a sociologist studying how families living in the economically impoverished neighborhoods of San Juan coped with mental illness. Through exacting research and experimentation, he has helped achieve legitimacy for the field of cultural psychiatry that it never had when he launched his career more than 40 years ago after receiving a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Iowa. He has had academic appointments at several universities, including the University of Puerto Rico, Yale, and Case Western Reserve. In 1974, Fordham University appointed him the Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities, a Chair established by the Regents of the State of New York. He continued to teach and conduct research, founding the Hispanic Research Center at Fordham University in 1977 and directing it until 1990. He has also taught at Columbia University and at the New York University/Bellevue Center, and has lectured at Harvard and at the Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University.

Dr. Rogler's approach to research is interdisciplinary and covers anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and history. This diversity is reflected in his numerous publications (taking up about half of his 14-page vita), which have appeared in sociology, psychology and psychiatry journals. In the year 2000, he had 80 citations to his work in professional journals and books. The journals represent 31 disciplines or sub-disciplines. The following are among the eight books and monographs he has authored: Trapped: Families and Schizophrenia, with August B. Hollingshead, a study of how families living in the impoverished neighborhoods of San Juan coped with mental illness, published in 1965; Migrant in the City: The Life of a Puerto Rican Action Group, a study of how minority groups develop organizations to represent their interests, published in 1972; Puerto Rican Families in New City: Intergenerational Processes, with Rosemary Santana Cooney, a study of how intergenerational processes affect the migration experience, published in 1985.

Dr. Rogler has been appointed to serve on national and local public service committees for the formulation and execution of public policy affecting issues of mental health and minority groups. He served in the National Advisory Mental Health Council of the National Institute of Mental Health (1972-76), and in New York City's Mayor's Commission on Science and Technology (1984-86). His contributions have been recognized by numerous honors and awards, among them the New York Society of Clinical Psychologists’ Eugenio Maria de Hostos and Jose Marti Award, 1981; Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 1990; American Psychiatric Association's 1996 Simon Bolivar Award for "...outstanding contributions to education, research, and your overall achievement in psychiatry"; and in 2002, the American Sociological Association awarded him the Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology. In 2006, research health economists from Columbia University designated Rogler a “Superstar” in medical research.