Broadly, my research interests include social inequality, military sociology, social demography, race and ethnicity, quantitative methodology, and public policy. Below are links to some of my recent papers.
My grants and awards are listed here.
My grants and awards are listed here.
Research Monographs
Asch, Beth, Christopher Buck, Jacob Klerman, Meredith Kleykamp, and David Loughran. 2009. Military Enlistment of Hispanic Youth: Obstacles and Opportunities. Santa Monica:RAND Corporation. 222 pp.
Journal Articles
Kleykamp, Meredith, Sidra Montgomery, Alexis Pang, & Kristin Schrader. in press. “Military Identity and Planning for the Transition out of the Military.” Military Psychology.
MacLean, Alair and Meredith Kleykamp. 2021. “Generations of Veterans: Socioeconomic Attainment from World War II to the Contemporary Era.” Social Science History 45(1):83-110.
Crosbie, Thomas and Meredith Kleykamp. 2020. “Military Systems of Justice: A Sociological Overview.” Journal of Political and Military Sociology 47(1): 37-59.
Keeling, Mary, Elisa E Borah, Sara Kintzle, Meredith Kleykamp, Heather C Robertson. 2020. “Military Spouses Transition, Too! A Call to Action to Address Spouses’ Military to Civilian Transition.” Journal of Family Social Work 23(1): 3-19.
Shattuck, Rachel and Meredith Kleykamp. 2018. “Conducive Characteristics or Anti-Racist Context? Decomposing the Reasons for Veterans’ High Likelihood of Interracial Marriage” Population Research and Policy Review 37(2): 261-99.
Crosbie, Thomas and Meredith Kleykamp. 2018. “Ethical Lapses and the Military Profession: Three Problems and a Solution.” Armed Forces and Society 44(4): 748-57.
Kleykamp, Meredith, Crosby Hipes and Alair MacLean. 2018. “Who Supports U.S. Veterans and Who Exaggerates Their Support?” Armed Forces and Society 44(1):92-115.
Crosbie, Thomas and Meredith Kleykamp. 2017. “Fault Lines of the American Military Profession.” Armed Forces and Society 44(3):521-43.
MacLean, Alair and Meredith Kleykamp. 2016. “Income Inequality and the Veteran Experience.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 663(1):99-116. Alair MacLean and David B. Grusky, eds.
Kleykamp, Meredith and Crosby Hipes. 2015. " Coverage of Veterans of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the U.S. Media." Sociological Forum. 30(2):
Online appendix and unpublished table referenced in the paper (click here)
Hipes, Crosby, Jeffrey Lucas and Meredith Kleykamp. 2015. "Status- and Stigma-Related Consequences of Recent Experiences in War." Armed Forces and Society.
MacLean, Alair and Meredith Kleykamp. 2014. "Coming Home: Attitudes toward U.S. Veterans Returning from Iraq." Social Problems.
Kleykamp, Meredith. 2013. “Unemployment, Earnings and Enrollment among Post 9/11 Veterans.” Social Science Research 42(3):836-51.
Rosenfeld, Jake and Meredith Kleykamp. 2013. “Immigration, Organization, and the Great Recession: Change or Continuity?” American Sociological Review 78(2):333-8.
Rosenfeld, Jake and Meredith Kleykamp. 2012. “Organized Labor and Racial Wage Inequality in the United States.” American Journal of Sociology 117(5):1460-1502. Recipient, Best Published Paper award, Labor and Labor Movements section of the ASA, 2012
Kleykamp, Meredith. 2010. “Where Did the Soldiers Go? The Effects of Military Downsizing on College Enrollment and Employment.” Social Science Research 39(3):477-90.
Kelty, Ryan, Meredith Kleykamp, and David Segal. 2010. “The Military and the Transition to Adulthood.” The Future of Children 20(1):19-46.
Rosenfeld, Jake and Meredith Kleykamp. 2009. “Hispanics and Organized Labor in the United States, 1973-2007.” American Sociological Review 74(6):916-37.
Kleykamp, Meredith. 2009. “A Great Place to Start? The Effect of Prior Military Service on Hiring.” Armed Forces & Society 35(2):266-85. Recipient, Best Published Paper award, PWSC section of the ASA, 2010
Kleykamp, Meredith. 2007. “Military Service as a Labor Market Outcome.” Race, Gender, Class 14(3):65-76.
Kleykamp, Meredith. 2006. “College, Jobs or the Military? Enlistment During a Time of War.” Social Science Quarterly 87(2):272-90.
Western, Bruce, Meredith Kleykamp and Jake Rosenfeld. 2006. “Economic Inequality and the Rise in U.S. Imprisonment.” Social Forces 84(4):2291-2301.
Western, Bruce and Meredith Kleykamp. 2004. “A Bayesian Change Point Model for Historical Time Series Analysis.” Political Analysis 12(4):354-74.
Kleykamp, Meredith and Marta Tienda. 2004. “Physical and Mental Health Status of Hispanic Adolescent Girls: A Comparative Perspective.” In David Bills (ed.) Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 22:149-85.
Book Chapters and Other Publications
Kleykamp, Meredith. 2020. “Foreword.” in Rethinking Military Professionalism. Hachey, Krystal K., Tamir Libel and Waylon H. Dean eds. Springer.
Crosbie, Thomas and Meredith Kleykamp. 2020. “Civilian Military Experts: Findings from the 2017 Survey of American Military Experts (SAME).” in Rethinking Military Professionalism. Hachey, Krystal K., Tamir Libel and Waylon H. Dean eds. Springer. Chapter
9: 129-47.
Bailey, Amy Kate and Meredith Kleykamp. 2018. “Editors’ Introduction.” Population Research and Policy Review, Special Issue: Military Populations: Social and Racial Inequality. 37(4): 511-16.
Kleykamp, Meredith. 2018. “Serving Military Families through Research: The View from the Ivory Tower.” in Battle Plan for Supporting Military Families Macdermid-Wadsworth, S., ed. Routledge.
Kleykamp, Meredith, Ryan Kelty, and David Segal, forthcoming “Military Service and Emerging Adulthood” in Flourishing in Emerging Adulthood: Positive Development During the Third Decade of Life Padilla-Walker, L. and Nelson, L eds. Oxford University Press.
MacLean, Alair, Meredith Kleykamp and John Robert Warren. forthcoming. “Retirement Trends among Male Veterans from World War II to Vietnam.” in Long-term Outcomes of Military Service: Perspectives on Health and Wellbeing Spiro, A. III, Settersten, R. A., Jr., and Aldwin, C. M., eds. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press.
Kleykamp, Meredith and James Yastrzemsky. forthcoming. “Military Sociology.” in The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology Kathleen Korgen, ed. Cambridge University Press.
Kleykamp, Meredith and Molly Clever. 2015. “Women in the Military.” in Women, War, and Violence: Topography, Resistance, and Hope. Mariam M.Kurtz and Lester R. Kurtz eds. Praeger.
Kleykamp, Meredith and Crosby Hipes. 2014. “Programs for Soldiers and Veterans.” in Oxford Handbook of U.S. Social Policy. Daniel Béland, Christopher Howard, and Kimberly Morgan, eds.
Kleykamp, Meredith and Sidra Montgomery. 2013. “Young Veterans and the Transition to Civilian Employment: Does Marital Status Matter? ” Stress in U.S. Military Families. Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, ed. Springer. pp.193-218.
Kleykamp, Meredith. 2012 “Labor Market Outcomes among Veterans and Military Spouses.” in Life Course Perspectives on Military Service. Janet M. Wilmoth and Andrew S. London, eds.
Kleykamp, Meredith A. 2010. “Women’s Work after War.” Upjohn Institute Working Paper No. 10-169. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
Kleykamp, Meredith, Jake Rosenfeld, and Roseanne Scotti. 2008. “Wasting Money, Wasting Lives: Calculating the Hidden Costs of Incarceration in New Jersey.” Report for the Drug Policy Alliance, Trenton, NJ.
Western, Bruce, Meredith Kleykamp and Jake Rosenfeld. 2004. “Crime, Punishment, and American Inequality.” Pp. 771-96 In Social Inequality, edited by Kathryn M. Neckerman. New York: Russell Sage.
Asch, Beth, Christopher Buck, Jacob Klerman, Meredith Kleykamp, and David Loughran. 2009. Military Enlistment of Hispanic Youth: Obstacles and Opportunities. Santa Monica:RAND Corporation. 222 pp.
Journal Articles
Kleykamp, Meredith, Sidra Montgomery, Alexis Pang, & Kristin Schrader. in press. “Military Identity and Planning for the Transition out of the Military.” Military Psychology.
MacLean, Alair and Meredith Kleykamp. 2021. “Generations of Veterans: Socioeconomic Attainment from World War II to the Contemporary Era.” Social Science History 45(1):83-110.
Crosbie, Thomas and Meredith Kleykamp. 2020. “Military Systems of Justice: A Sociological Overview.” Journal of Political and Military Sociology 47(1): 37-59.
Keeling, Mary, Elisa E Borah, Sara Kintzle, Meredith Kleykamp, Heather C Robertson. 2020. “Military Spouses Transition, Too! A Call to Action to Address Spouses’ Military to Civilian Transition.” Journal of Family Social Work 23(1): 3-19.
Shattuck, Rachel and Meredith Kleykamp. 2018. “Conducive Characteristics or Anti-Racist Context? Decomposing the Reasons for Veterans’ High Likelihood of Interracial Marriage” Population Research and Policy Review 37(2): 261-99.
Crosbie, Thomas and Meredith Kleykamp. 2018. “Ethical Lapses and the Military Profession: Three Problems and a Solution.” Armed Forces and Society 44(4): 748-57.
Kleykamp, Meredith, Crosby Hipes and Alair MacLean. 2018. “Who Supports U.S. Veterans and Who Exaggerates Their Support?” Armed Forces and Society 44(1):92-115.
Crosbie, Thomas and Meredith Kleykamp. 2017. “Fault Lines of the American Military Profession.” Armed Forces and Society 44(3):521-43.
MacLean, Alair and Meredith Kleykamp. 2016. “Income Inequality and the Veteran Experience.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 663(1):99-116. Alair MacLean and David B. Grusky, eds.
Kleykamp, Meredith and Crosby Hipes. 2015. " Coverage of Veterans of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the U.S. Media." Sociological Forum. 30(2):
Online appendix and unpublished table referenced in the paper (click here)
Hipes, Crosby, Jeffrey Lucas and Meredith Kleykamp. 2015. "Status- and Stigma-Related Consequences of Recent Experiences in War." Armed Forces and Society.
MacLean, Alair and Meredith Kleykamp. 2014. "Coming Home: Attitudes toward U.S. Veterans Returning from Iraq." Social Problems.
Kleykamp, Meredith. 2013. “Unemployment, Earnings and Enrollment among Post 9/11 Veterans.” Social Science Research 42(3):836-51.
Rosenfeld, Jake and Meredith Kleykamp. 2013. “Immigration, Organization, and the Great Recession: Change or Continuity?” American Sociological Review 78(2):333-8.
Rosenfeld, Jake and Meredith Kleykamp. 2012. “Organized Labor and Racial Wage Inequality in the United States.” American Journal of Sociology 117(5):1460-1502. Recipient, Best Published Paper award, Labor and Labor Movements section of the ASA, 2012
Kleykamp, Meredith. 2010. “Where Did the Soldiers Go? The Effects of Military Downsizing on College Enrollment and Employment.” Social Science Research 39(3):477-90.
Kelty, Ryan, Meredith Kleykamp, and David Segal. 2010. “The Military and the Transition to Adulthood.” The Future of Children 20(1):19-46.
Rosenfeld, Jake and Meredith Kleykamp. 2009. “Hispanics and Organized Labor in the United States, 1973-2007.” American Sociological Review 74(6):916-37.
Kleykamp, Meredith. 2009. “A Great Place to Start? The Effect of Prior Military Service on Hiring.” Armed Forces & Society 35(2):266-85. Recipient, Best Published Paper award, PWSC section of the ASA, 2010
Kleykamp, Meredith. 2007. “Military Service as a Labor Market Outcome.” Race, Gender, Class 14(3):65-76.
Kleykamp, Meredith. 2006. “College, Jobs or the Military? Enlistment During a Time of War.” Social Science Quarterly 87(2):272-90.
Western, Bruce, Meredith Kleykamp and Jake Rosenfeld. 2006. “Economic Inequality and the Rise in U.S. Imprisonment.” Social Forces 84(4):2291-2301.
Western, Bruce and Meredith Kleykamp. 2004. “A Bayesian Change Point Model for Historical Time Series Analysis.” Political Analysis 12(4):354-74.
Kleykamp, Meredith and Marta Tienda. 2004. “Physical and Mental Health Status of Hispanic Adolescent Girls: A Comparative Perspective.” In David Bills (ed.) Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 22:149-85.
Book Chapters and Other Publications
Kleykamp, Meredith. 2020. “Foreword.” in Rethinking Military Professionalism. Hachey, Krystal K., Tamir Libel and Waylon H. Dean eds. Springer.
Crosbie, Thomas and Meredith Kleykamp. 2020. “Civilian Military Experts: Findings from the 2017 Survey of American Military Experts (SAME).” in Rethinking Military Professionalism. Hachey, Krystal K., Tamir Libel and Waylon H. Dean eds. Springer. Chapter
9: 129-47.
Bailey, Amy Kate and Meredith Kleykamp. 2018. “Editors’ Introduction.” Population Research and Policy Review, Special Issue: Military Populations: Social and Racial Inequality. 37(4): 511-16.
Kleykamp, Meredith. 2018. “Serving Military Families through Research: The View from the Ivory Tower.” in Battle Plan for Supporting Military Families Macdermid-Wadsworth, S., ed. Routledge.
Kleykamp, Meredith, Ryan Kelty, and David Segal, forthcoming “Military Service and Emerging Adulthood” in Flourishing in Emerging Adulthood: Positive Development During the Third Decade of Life Padilla-Walker, L. and Nelson, L eds. Oxford University Press.
MacLean, Alair, Meredith Kleykamp and John Robert Warren. forthcoming. “Retirement Trends among Male Veterans from World War II to Vietnam.” in Long-term Outcomes of Military Service: Perspectives on Health and Wellbeing Spiro, A. III, Settersten, R. A., Jr., and Aldwin, C. M., eds. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press.
Kleykamp, Meredith and James Yastrzemsky. forthcoming. “Military Sociology.” in The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology Kathleen Korgen, ed. Cambridge University Press.
Kleykamp, Meredith and Molly Clever. 2015. “Women in the Military.” in Women, War, and Violence: Topography, Resistance, and Hope. Mariam M.Kurtz and Lester R. Kurtz eds. Praeger.
Kleykamp, Meredith and Crosby Hipes. 2014. “Programs for Soldiers and Veterans.” in Oxford Handbook of U.S. Social Policy. Daniel Béland, Christopher Howard, and Kimberly Morgan, eds.
Kleykamp, Meredith and Sidra Montgomery. 2013. “Young Veterans and the Transition to Civilian Employment: Does Marital Status Matter? ” Stress in U.S. Military Families. Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, ed. Springer. pp.193-218.
Kleykamp, Meredith. 2012 “Labor Market Outcomes among Veterans and Military Spouses.” in Life Course Perspectives on Military Service. Janet M. Wilmoth and Andrew S. London, eds.
Kleykamp, Meredith A. 2010. “Women’s Work after War.” Upjohn Institute Working Paper No. 10-169. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
Kleykamp, Meredith, Jake Rosenfeld, and Roseanne Scotti. 2008. “Wasting Money, Wasting Lives: Calculating the Hidden Costs of Incarceration in New Jersey.” Report for the Drug Policy Alliance, Trenton, NJ.
Western, Bruce, Meredith Kleykamp and Jake Rosenfeld. 2004. “Crime, Punishment, and American Inequality.” Pp. 771-96 In Social Inequality, edited by Kathryn M. Neckerman. New York: Russell Sage.
