I am currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology 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 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, diversity in the military, and statistics.
I also teach undergraduate and graduate courses on military sociology, diversity in the military, and statistics.
My CV:
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Contact information
Assistant 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
University of Maryland
2112 Art-Sociology Bldg.
College Park, MD 20742
301.405.6409 (voice)
301.314.6892 (fax)
kleykamp@umd.edu
Recent news
A paper with Jake Rosenfeld entitled “Organized Labor and Racial Wage Inequality in the United States.” will be out in 2012 in the American Journal of Sociology.
My paper , "A Great Place to Start? The Effect of Prior Military Service on Hiring" published in Armed Forces and Society in 2009 was awarded the Best Published paper award form the Peace, War and Social Conflict section of the American Sociological Association.
In June 2010, Meredith joined the faculty in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland.
Meredith was awarded a $120,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation for her project "Finding Work after War: The Role of Military Experience in Civilian Hiring" (NSF award #0818337) to examine how employers shape the post-military employment outcomes of veterans.
