Meredith A. Kleykamp - About

 

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I am an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Center for Research on Military Organization at the University of Maryland.  I received a PhD in Sociology from Princeton University in 2007. My research examines the determinants and consequences of military service in the U.S., focusing on differences by race/ethnicity and gender.  I am also working on several projects on public opinion towards veterans, and public discourse around veterans. My research interests include social inequality and stratification, social demography, military sociology and quantitative methodology.  Some of my work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Armed Forces & Society, Social Forces, Social Science Quarterly, Political Analysis, and Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.

I also teach undergraduate and graduate courses on military sociology, veterans in American society, diversity in the military, institutions and the life course, and statistics. 

In early November, I will be launching a blog "Veteran Scholars."  Visit the site for discussions of new research, tips on conducting research on veterans and military populations, and more. 

My CV:

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Contact information

Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology
University of Maryland
2112 Art-Sociology Bldg.
College Park, MD 20742
301.405.6409 (voice)
301.314.6892 (fax)
kleykamp@umd.edu

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Recent news and media coverage
 

Read about our new project (with CRMO post-doctoral fellow Tom Crosbie), "The Revolution in Military Professionalism" recently funded by the Army Research Institute to update Morris Janowitz's The Professional Soldier study. Story here.

Military spouses are often under-employed.  NPR's marketplace looks at why.

The "un-bootcamp" for military women. Listen to NPR's Marketplace story for a few of my thoughts.

"Lost Unions and Lost Ground" OpEd in the Los Angeles Times (with Jake Rosenfeld)

I presented a talk at the Department of Labor's Symposium on Women Veterans: Skills Matter. You can view the slides here.

My article with Jake Rosenfeld, “Organized Labor and Racial Wage Inequality in the United States.” in the American Journal of Sociology was awarded the best published paper in 2012 from the Labor and Labor Movements section of the ASA.

The Institute of Medicine released "Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan: Readjustment Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families."

I appeared on CSPAN's Washington Journal May 25, 2012 to talk about veterans' issues.Link to show