Professor Robert Sellers
Area: Personality and Social Contexts
Research Interests: My research interests include ethnicity, racial and ethnic identity, personality and health, athletic participation and personality.
What has been your proudest moment?
I’ve had a lot of proud moments, but probably the proudest would be when I
watched my first group of doctoral students walk across the stage at their graduation.
That’s the closest I’ve ever come to feeling like a proud parent; at that moment, it was
an incredible feeling to see them succeed after having gone through the hard times
with them–through all the blood, sweat and tears–and that it was 99.99% them and
about 0.01% me.
What has been your most humbling experience?
Getting married. At our wedding, I saw so many people whose paths I have
crossed in life; it was incredibly humbling to have them come and share such a wonderful
moment with us.
What do you wish you had known at the start of your career?
I wish I had known that it is okay to not know stuff . So many have the feeling
that you have to have an answer for everything, but along the way I’ve learned that it
is really okay to not know things.
What is one thing that most people don’t know about you?
I spent a summer reading the encyclopedia.
If you had to choose another career, what
would it be?
As a kid, I always wanted to be an
architect, but then I sat next to my best friend in
algebra class and learned no algebra. Then, for
a while, I wanted to be a pro football player. If I
had to choose another path now, I’d probably be
a high school history teacher and football coach.
"Five Minutes With..." Features
Rob Sellers | Cathy Lord | Patti Reuter-Lorenz | Monique Ward
Chris Peterson | Bill McKeachie | Margaret Shih | Cindy Lustig
On Our Minds 2005 Homepage
