EDUCATION:

• PH.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1990.

• M.S., Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1983.

• M.A., Education, University of California, Berkeley, 1977.

• A.B., Psychology, Cornell University, 1975.

SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Participant, "Political Histories of Collective Action," Cornell University, 1992

TEACHING INTERESTS

• Urban Sociology; Political Sociology; Research Methods; Race, Class and Gender

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Community organizing, peace movements, socioeconomic dynamics of metropolitan regions

ON-GOING RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Congregation-based Community Organizing in Northeast Ohio

PUBLICATIONS

     Books

• Kleidman, Robert. Organizing for Peace: Neutrality, the Test Ban, and the Freeze. Syracuse NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993.

• Chatfield, Charles, with the assistance of Robert Kleidman. The American Peace Movement: Ideals and Activism. New York: Twayne, 1992

     Recent Articles 

• Kleidman, Robert.  "Public Sociology and Community Organizing," Sociological Practice (forthcoming), 2006.

• Kleidman, Robert.  "Community Organizing and Regionalism," City and Community, 3(4): 403-21, 2004.

• Kleidman, Robert."Volunteer Activism and Professionalism in Social Movement Organizations," Social Problems 41(2):601-620, 1994.

• Meyer, David S., and Robert Kleidman. "The Nuclear Freeze Movement in the United States," International Social Movements Research (Peace Movements in International Perspective) 3:231-261, 1991.

      Selected Book Chapters

• Orfield, Myron. Luce, Thomas, Kleidman, Robert. Oleson, Ben. Northeast Ohio Metropatterns: A regional Agenda for Community and Stability in the Northeast Ohio Region: Minneapolis: Metropolitan Area Research Corporation, 2001.

• Kleidman, Robert and Thomas R. Rochon, "Dilemmas of Organization in Peace Campaigns." Pp 47-60 in Coalitions and Political Movements: The Lessons of the Nuclear Freeze. Rochon, Thomas R. and David S. Meyer (editors). Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997.

RECENT PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

• "Working With Activists: Reflections on Engaged Scholarship on Community Organizing," Accepted for Presentation at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA, 2003.

• "Promoting the Scholarship of Engagement," panel presentation along with Cheryl McCahon, Lorilee Sandmann & Elizabeth Welfel; American Association of Higher Education Conference on Faculty Roles & Rewards, Tampa, Florida, 2001.

• "Beyond Populism? Multiculturalism, Regionalism, and Religious Values in Faith-Based Community Organizing," Paper presented at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington D.C., 2000.

• "Contradictions, Consistencies, and Change in Community Organizing," Paper presented at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago IL, 1999.

• "Participatory Research on Community Organizing and Social Movements," Paper presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco CA, 1998.

• "Faith-Based Community Organizing and Ideology,"  Paper presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco CA, 1998.

•  "Collaborative Research on Social Movements and Community Organizing." Paper presented at the 1997 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada, 1997.

• "Collaborative Research: Possibilities and Tensions." With Randy Stoecker. Paper presented at the 1997 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada, 1997. 

FUNDED PROJECTS AND RESEARCH GRANTS

• "Service Learning in Sociology," Ohio Campus compact, $2,500, 2003.

• "Northeast Ohio Regional Issues Summit," organizing a conference around the presentation of research by the Metropolitan Areas Research Corporation on urban sprawl and socioeconomic polarization; The George Gund Foundation $5,568; CSU Office of Vice Provost for Institutional Effectiveness and Strategic Partnerships $2,000, 2000.

• "Working Group on Organizing, Social Movements, and the Academy," with Randy Stoecker. Interfaith Funders, $6,000. This grant funded a two-day conference in August 1998 in Davis, California, that brought together forty-three community organizers and leaders, funders, and academics, from around the United States, to evaluate the state of collaborative work and to consider plans to advance the field, 1998.

• "Regional Issue Education and Development," George Gund Foundation, $6,850. This grant funds a collaborative project with community organizations to conduct a series of public seminars on suburban sprawl and possible solutions, 1997.

• "Community Organizing: A View from the Bottom Up," Nonprofit Sector Research Fund of The Aspen Institute, grant number 94-2-NSRF-10, $38,000. Robert Kleidman, Principal Investigator;  Randy Cunningham, Co-Investigator oral Dissertation Research in Sociology, grant number SES-8516934, $3,185, 1994.

SERVICE TO SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATIONS

• Convener, Workshops Committee, American Sociological Association Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, 1999-2002.

• Researcher, Urban University and Neighborhood Network, 1995-1996.

• Member, Board of Directors, Peace History Society, 1995-1999.

• Co-organizer, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Refereed Roundtable Sessions, American Sociological Association 1995 Annual Meeting.

• Partnership with Northeast Ohio Alliance for Hope (NOAH), a  congregation-based community organizing group, researching urban sprawl and socioeconomic polarization, and public policy alternatives, in  Northeast Ohio, 1997-present.