Curriculum Vitae
Randy Stoecker
Department of Community and Environmental Sociology
University of Wisconsin
350 Agricultural Hall
1450
Linden Drive
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Mobile phone:
(608) 239-1057
Office phone: (608) 890-0764
Fax: (608)
262-6022
E-mail: rstoecker@wisc.edu
on-line CV: http://comm-org.wisc.edu/stoeckerfolio/stoeckvita.htm
EDUCATION
1988: PhD, Sociology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Thesis Title: "From Concrete to Grass Roots: A Case Study of Successful Urban Insurgency in Cedar-Riverside"
1983: MS, Counseling and Guidance (emphasis in student services), University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
1981: BA, Social Development (an Individually Designed Major) with Philosophy Minor, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (graduated Summa Cum Laude).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008-2024: Professor, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Undergraduate Program Coordinator, 2019-2021; Applied Population Center Director, 2021-2022).
2005-2008: Associate Professor, Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin (affiliate appointment in the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension Center for Community and Economic Development).
2000-2005: Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Research Associate, Urban Affairs Center), University of Toledo.
1994-2000: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Research Associate, Urban Affairs Center), University of Toledo.
1988-1994: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Research Associate, Urban Affairs Center, 1988-1991 and 1993), University of Toledo.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Community-based research and service learning
Community organizing and development
Community informatics
Active learning pedagogies
RECENT COURSES
Special Topics: Community Responses to
Pandemics
https://comm-org.wisc.edu/syllabi/pandemics.html
Community Development
https://comm-org.wisc.edu/syllabi/cdsyllabus23.html
Capstone Experience: Community-Based Research
https://comm-org.wisc.edu/syllabi/capstoneclass23s.htm
GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISING
Ph.D. co-advisor, Greg Wilson, Sociology, completed 2023
Ph.D. advisor, Jill Richardson, Sociology, completed 2022
Ph.D. co-advisor, Laura Livingston, Environment and Resources, completed 2022
Ph.D. co-advisor, Garret Zastoupil, Civil Society and Community Research, completed 2022
M.S. advisor, Saida Chacon Cedillo, Environment and Resources, completed 2021
M.S. advisor, Ashley Gries, Environmental Conservation, completed 2021
Ph.D. advisor, Liangfei Ye, Environment and Resources, completed 2021
Ph.D. advisor, Katie Zaman, Sociology, completed 2020
M.S. advisor, Lucinda Morris, Environmental Conservation, completed 2020
M.S. advisor, Kristi O'Conner, Environmental Conservation, completed 2020
M.S. advisor, Kelly Guilbeau, Environmental Conservation, completed 2019
Ph.D. advisor, Dadit Hidayat, Environment and Resources, completed 2018
Ph.D. advisor, Catherine Willis, Sociology, completed 2018
M.S. advisor, Matthew Wallrath, Environmental Conservation, completed 2018
M.S. advisor, Amanda Hoffman, Agroecology, completed 2017
M.S. advisor, Hannah Stern, Environment and Resources, completed 2015
Ph.D. co-advisor, Sarah Lessem, Sociology, completed 2015
M.A. advisor, Heather Gordon, Sociology, completed 2014
Ph.D. advisor, April Sansom, Environment and Resources, completed 2014
Ph.D. advisor, Jennifer Ashleigh Ross, Environment and Resources, completed 2014
Ph.D. advisor, Janina Mera, Development Studies, completed 2013
Ph.D. advisor, Sandra Sulzer, Sociology, completed 2012
M.A. advisor, Jennifer Randolph, Southeast Asian Studies, completed 2010
M.A. advisor, Rebecca Thompson, Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies, completed 2010
M.A. advisor, Charity Schmidt, Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies, completed 2009
BOOKS AND EDITED COLLECTIONS
Stoecker, Randy, and Adrienne Falcón (eds). 2022. Handbook of Participatory Action Research and Community Development. Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
Stoecker, Randy. 2016. Liberating Service Learning, and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Stoecker, Randy, Nicholas Holton, and Charles Ganzert (eds). 2016. The Landscape of Rural Service Learning, and What It Can Teach Us All. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.
Stoecker, Randy. 2013. Research Methods for Community Change: A Project-Based Approach, 2e. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Stoecker, Randy (ed.). 1997-2013. "Papers." COMM-ORG: The On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development. http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers.htm
Stoecker, Randy and Elizabeth Tryon (eds.). 2009. The Unheard Voices: Community Organizations and Service Learning. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Stoecker, Randy. 2005. Research Methods for Community Change: A Project-Based Approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Strand, Kerry, Sam Marullo, Nick Cutforth, Randy Stoecker, and Patrick Donohue. 2003. Community-Based Research and Higher Education: Principles and Practices. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Simon, Harold, Karen Ceraso, and Randy Stoecker (eds). 1998. "Organize!"--Special issue of Shelterforce: The Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Building.
Stoecker, Randy (ed). 1996. "Sociology and Social Action II" special issue of Sociological Imagination Vol. 33, No. 1. Also at: http://comm-org.wisc.edu/si/sihome.htm
Stoecker, Randy (ed). 1996. "Sociology and Social Action I" special issue of Sociological Imagination Vol. 33, No. 2. Also at: http://comm-org.wisc.edu/si/sihome.htm
Stoecker, Randy. 1994. Defending Community: The Struggle for Alternative Redevelopment in Cedar-Riverside. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Stoecker, Randy, and Edna Bonacich (eds). 1993. "Participatory Research II" special issue of The American Sociologist Volume 24, No. 1.
Stoecker, Randy, and Edna Bonacich (eds). 1992. "Participatory Research I" special issue of The American Sociologist Volume 23, No. 4.
ARTICLES
Hu, Ming, and Randy Stoecker. 2023. "Using Participatory Action Research as a Liberatory Tool in Nonprofit Organizations." Public Integrity, DOI: 10.1080/10999922.2023.2227387.
Stoecker, Randy, and Benny Witkovsky. 2023. "Elder Civic Engagement and Rural Community Development." Ageing International. 48(2):526-546.
Stoecker, Randy, Todd Barr, and Mark Skinner. 2022. "Toward a Community Development Science Shop Model: Insights from Peterborough, Haliburton and the Kawartha Lakes." In Stoecker, Randy, and Adrienne Falcón (eds). Handbook of Participatory Action Research and Community Development. Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
Hidayat, Dadit, and Randy Stoecker. 2021. "Collective Knowledge Mobilization through a Community-University Partnership." Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. 25(2):1-16.
Stoecker, Randy, and Elisa Avila. 2021. “From Mixed Methods to Strategic Research Design.” International Journal of Social Research Methodology. 24(6):627-640.
Stoecker, Randy, and Benny Witkovsky. 2020. "From Inclusionary to Exclusionary Populism in the Transformation of U.S. Community Development." In Sue Kenny, Peter Westoby and Jim Ife (eds) Populism, Democracy and Community Development.Bristol: Policy Press.
Stoecker, Randy. 2020 "Community-Based Research." In Katherine Legun, Julie Keller, Michael Bell, and Michael Carolan (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology. London: Cambridge.
Stoecker, Randy, Benny Witkovsky, Aaron Hicks, Karime Perez, Xong Vang, Matthew Tye, and John Patterson. 2019. “Building Community-Police Relations by Building Community-Community Relations,” Police Chief online.
Stoecker, Randy, Karen Reece and Taylor Konkle, From Relationships to Impact in Community-University Partnerships. 2018. In Michael Seal (ed.) Participatory Pedagogic Impact Research: Co-Production with Community Partners in Action. New York: Routledge.
Hidayat, Dadit, and Randy Stoecker. 2018. "Community-Based Organizations and Environmentalism: How Much Impact can Small, Community-Based Organizations Working on Environmental Issues Have?" Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 8(4):395-406.
Fearing, Autumn, Taylor Rae Konkle, Jacqueline Laitsch, Hannah Pierce, Claire Rater, Karen Reece, Randy Stoecker, and Theodora Varelis. 2018. "Is Hip-Hop Violent? Analyzing the Relationship Between Live Music Performances and Violence.” Journal of Black Studies. 49(3):235-255 .
Stoecker, Randy, and Allyson Watson. 2018. "Young Adults are Not All Leaving." Municipality Magazine, May issue.
Stoecker, Randy. 2018."About the Localized Social Movement." In Ram Cnaan and Carl Milofsky (eds.) Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations in the 21st Century. New York: Springer.
Stoecker, Randy. 2018. "Participatory Action Research," In A. Javier Treviño (ed.) Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Stoecker, Randy. 2017. "Gaining and Maintaining Young Adults in Wisconsin: The Plover Case Compared." In Jerome Segura III and Scott Wallace (eds.) Economic Indicators Report Third Quarter 2017: Central Wisconsin. Stevens Point, WI: University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Central Wisconsin Economic Research Bureau.
Stoecker, Randy. 2017. "The Fundamental Lesson." In Corey Dolgon, Tania Mitchell, and Timothy K. Eatman (eds.) Cambridge Handbook on Service Learning and Community Engagement. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Stoecker, Randy. 2017. "The Neoliberal Starfish Conspiracy." Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement. 8:1-17.
Ross, J. Ashleigh, and Randy Stoecker. 2016. "The Emotional Context of Higher Education Community Engagement." Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship. 9:7-18.
Stoecker, Randy. 2015. "Community Development." In David Coghlan and Mary Brydon-Miller (eds.) Encyclopedia of Action Research. Thousand Oaks: CA: Sage Publications.
Stoecker, Randy. 2015. "Saul Alinsky." In David Coghlan and Mary Brydon-Miller (eds.) Encyclopedia of Action Research. Thousand Oaks: CA: Sage Publications.
Stoecker, Randy. 2015. "Ladder of Citizen Participation." In David Coghlan and Mary Brydon-Miller (eds.) Encyclopedia of Action Research. Thousand Oaks: CA: Sage Publications.
Stoecker, Randy, and Mary Beckman. 2014. "Making Higher Education Civic Engagement Matter in the Community." In Jason A. Laker, Kornelija Mrnjaus, and Concepción Naval (eds.) Citizenship, Democracy, and the University: Theory and Practice in Europe and North America.
Stoecker. Randy. 2014. "Extension and Higher Education Service-Learning: Toward a Community Development Service-Learning Model." Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. 18:15-42
Stoecker, Randy. 2014. “What if?” The All Ireland Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. 6:166,1-166,16.
Brydon-Miller, Mary, and Randy Stoecker. 2013. "Community covenantal ethics: Case studies in community-based research." ALARA World Congress Proceedings, 2012.
Brydon-Miller, Mary, David Coghlan, Rosalie Holian, Patricia Maguire and Randy Stoecker. 2013. "Covenantal ethics for action research: Creating a new strategy for ethical review." ALARA World Congress Proceedings, 2012.
Hidayat, Dadit, Randy Stoecker, and Heather Gates. 2013. "Promoting Community Environmental Sustainability Using a Project-Based Approach." In Kathleen Odell Korgen and Jonathan White (eds.) Sociologists in Action: Sociology, Social Change and Social Justice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
Stoecker, Randy, and Mary Brydon-Miller. 2013. "Action Research." In Audrey A. Trainor and Elizabeth Graue (eds.), Reviewing Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences, New York: Routledge.
Stoecker, Randy. 2013. Review of Change Research: A Case Study on Collaborative Methods for Social Workers and Advocates By Corey S. Shdaimah, Roland W. Stahl, and Sanford F. Schram. Social Service Review, 87:203-207
Willis, Catherine, and Randy Stoecker. 2013. "Grassroots Organizations and Leadership Education." Community Development. 44: 441-455.
Stoecker, Randy. 2012. "CBR and the Two Forms of Social Change." Journal of Rural Social Sciences. 27:83-98.
Stoecker, Randy. 2012. Review of Research for Organizing Toolkit, Shelterforce, spring.
Willis, Catherine, Crystel Anders, and Randy Stoecker. 2011. "When the Community Leads." In Leslie Hossfeld, Gwen Nyden, Phil Nyden (eds.) Public Sociology: Research, Action, and Change. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
Loving, Katherine, Randy Stoecker, and Molly Reddy. 2011. "Service-Learning, Technology, Nonprofits, and Institutional Limitations." In Melody Bowdon and Russell Carpenter (eds) Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships: Concepts, Models, and Applications. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Stoecker, Randy, Mary Beckman, and Bo Hee Min. 2010. "Evaluating the Community Impact of Higher Education Civic Engagement." In Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Diane L. Zimmerman, Cathy Burack, and Sarena Seifer (eds.) Handbook of Engaged Scholarship: The Contemporary Landscape. Volume Two: Community-Campus Partnerships. East Lansing, Michigan State University Press.
Stoecker, Randy. 2010. "Capacity Building and Community Power." In Sue Kenny and Matthew Clarke (eds.) Challenging Capacity Building: Comparative Perspectives. London: Palgrave and Macmillan.
Stoecker, Randy. 2010. "Has the Fight Gone out of Organizing." Shelterforce, spring. http://www.shelterforce.org/article/1983/has_the_fight_gone_out_of_organizing/.
Stoecker, Randy. 2010. "Community Organizing." In Robert Hutchinson (ed.) Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Stoecker, Randy. 2010. "Community Development." In Robert Hutchinson (ed.) Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Stoecker, Randy. 2010. "Saul Alinsky." In Robert Hutchinson (ed.) Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Stoecker, Randy, Katherine Loving, Molly Reddy, and Nicole Bollig. 2010. "Can Community-Based Research Guide Service-Learning?" Journal of Community Practice 18:280-296.
Stoecker, Randy. 2009. "Are We Talking the Walk of Community-Based Research?" Action Research 7:385-404.
Stoecker, Randy, Catherine Willis, and Arthur Lersch. 2009. "The Community Leadership Educator’s Perspective on Program Sustainability." Journal of Leadership Education 8:206-223.
Stoecker, Randy. 2009. "Community Organizing and Social Change." Contexts Magazine, 8:20-25.
Stoecker, Randy. 2008. "Ethics of Community Informatics Research and Practice." In Doug Schuler (ed.) Liberating Voices: A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution. Boston: MIT Press.
Stoecker, Randy. 2008. Review of Visions of Development: Faith-Based Initiatives, ed. Wendy Tyndale. Community Development Journal, 43:254-256.
Stoecker, Randy, Amy Hilgendorf and Elizabeth Tryon. 2008. "Information and Communication Technology in Service Learning: A Case Study of Appropriate Use." Service-eLearning: Educating for Citizenship, by Amber Dailey-Hebert, Emily Donnelli, and Laurie DiPadova-Stocks (eds.). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Stoecker, Randy. 2008. "Challenging Institutional Barriers to Community-Based Research." Action Research. 6:49-67.
Tryon, Elizabeth, and Randy Stoecker. 2008. "The Unheard Voices: Community Organizations and Service-Learning." Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. 12:47-59.
Tryon, Elizabeth, Randy Stoecker, Amy Martin, Kristy SeBlonka, Amy Hilgendorf and Margaret Nellis. 2008. "The Challenge of Short-Term Service Learning." Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. 14:16-26.
Stoecker, Randy. 2007. "The Data and Research Practices and Needs of Non-Profit Organizations." Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 34:97-119.
Stillman Larry, and Randy Stoecker. 2007. "Community Informatics." Handbook of Research on Public Information Technology, by G. David Garson and Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (eds.). Hershey, PA: IGI.
Stoecker, Randy and Larry Stillman. 2007. "Who Leads, Who Remembers, Who Speaks." Constructing and Sharing Memory Community Informatics, Identity and Empowerment. Selected papers from the 3rd Prato International Community Informatics Conference; Community Informatics Research Network 9- 11 October 2006. Newcastle upon Tyle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Stoecker, Randy. 2006. Review of Promise and Betrayal: Universities and the Battle for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods, by John I. Gilderbloom and R.L. Mullins Jr. Shelterforce, No. 148.
Stoecker, Randy. 2006. "Neighborhood Data Systems: A Foundation for Resident Participation." Community Development, 37:109-122.
Stoecker, Randy. 2005. "Is Community Informatics Good for Communities? Questions Confronting an Emerging Field." Journal of Community Informatics, Vol. 1 no. 3.
Stillman, Larry, and Randy Stoecker. 2005. "Structuration, ICTs, and Community Work." Journal of Community Informatics, Vol. 1, no. 3.
Stoecker, Randy. 2005. "The Last Line of
Defense." Shelterforce, No. 143, September/October,
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/143/lastdefense.html.
Stoecker,
Randy. 2005. "The Foundation of Community Information
Technology: Community-Based Research." Community
Technology Review. Spring-Summer.
http://www.comtechreview.org/spring-summer-2005/000311.html.
Susan Stall and Randy Stoecker. 2005. "Toward A Gender Analysis Of Community Organizing Models: Liminality And The Intersection Of Spheres" (revised version of 1998 Gender and Society article in Merideth Minkler (ed.) Community Organizing and Community Building for Health, 2E. NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Stoecker, Randy. 2004. "Toward a People's Technology." In Larry Stillman (ed.) Community and Information Technology: The Big Questions. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Stoecker Randy. 2004. "The Mystery of the Missing Social Capital and the Ghost of Social Structure: Why Community Development Can't Win." In Rob Silverman (ed.) Community-Based Organizations in Contemporary Urban Society: The Intersection of Social Capital and Local Context. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
Stoecker, Randy. 2004. Review of: Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, by Howard Rheingold. Contemporary Sociology, 33:681-682.
Stoecker, Randy. 2004. Review of Organizing Access to Capital: Advocacy and the Democratization of Financial Institutions. Contemporary Sociology, 33: 480-482.
Stoecker, Randy. 2003. "Are Academics Irrelevant? Approaches and Roles for Scholars in Community-Based Participatory Research" (revised version of 1999 American Behavioral Scientist article). In Nina Wallerstein and Meredith Minkler (eds.) Community Based Participatory Research in Health. Hoboken, NJ: Jossey-Bass.
Stoecker, Randy. 2003. "Comment on William M. Rohe and Rachel G. Bratt's 'Failures, Downsizings, and Mergers among Community Development Corporations': Defending Community Development Corporations or Defending Communities?" Housing Policy Debate, 14:47-56.
Stoecker, Randy. 2003. "Choices in Community-Higher Education Collaborations." PLA Notes 48:42-46.
Stoecker, Randy. 2003. "Understanding the Development-Organizing Dialectic." Journal of Urban Affairs, 25: 493-512.
Stoecker, Randy et al. 2003. "Community-Based Research Networks: Development and Lessons Learned in an Emerging Field." Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 9:44-56.
Strand, Kerry, Sam Marullo, Nick Cutforth, Randy Stoecker, and Patrick Donohue. 2003. "Principles of Best Practice for Community-Based Research." Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 9:5-15.
Stoecker, Randy. 2003. "Community-Based Research: From Theory to Practice and Back Again." Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 9:35-46.
Stoecker, Randy. 2002. "Practices and Challenges of Community-Based Research." Journal of Public Affairs. 6:219-239.
Stoecker, Randy. 2002. "Cyberspace vs. Face to face: Community Organizing in the New Millennium." Perspectives on Global Development and Technology. 1:143-164.
Stoecker, Randy. 2001. "Community Development and Community Organizing: Apples and Oranges? Chicken and Egg?" In Ron Hayduk and Ben Shepard (eds.) From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization. New York: Verso.
Stoecker, Randy, and Anna Vakil. 2000. "States, Culture, and Community Organizing: Two Tales of Two Neighborhoods. Journal of Urban Affairs. 22:439-458.
Stoecker, Randy. 1999. "The Titanic, Pizza Delivery, Community Development, and the Internet." In Andrew Funston (ed.) Communities Networking/Networking Communities: Proceedings of the 1998 National Conference, Melbourne, Australia: Community Quarterly.
Stoecker, Randy. 1999. Making Connections: Community Organizing, Empowerment Planning, and Participatory Research in Participatory Evaluation. Sociological Practice 1:209-232.
Stoecker, Randy, and Angela Stuber. 1999. "Building an Information Superhighway of One's Own: A Comparison of Two Approaches." Research in Politics and Society, Vol. 7.
Stoecker, Randy. 1999. "Are Academics Irrelevant?" Roles for Scholars in Participatory Research." American Behavioral Scientist 42:840-854.
Stall, Susan, and Randy Stoecker. 1998. "Community Organizing or Organizing Community? Gender and the Crafts of Empowerment." Gender and Society 12:729-756. (reprinted in James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert (eds.) The Community Development Reader. Routledge Publications: New York) (translated and reprinted in Sebály Bernadett and Vojtonovszki Bálint (Eds.). 2016. A hatalom társadalma vagy a társadalom hatalma? A közösségszervezés alapjai. Budapest: Napvilág).
Stoecker, Randy. 1998. "Capital Against Community." Research in Community Sociology, Vol. 8, ed. Dan Chekki. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
Stoecker, Randy. 1998. "Can Sociologists Change the World?" In Patrick McGuire and Linda Pertusatti (eds.) Toward a Second Dimension: A Sociology Reader. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt.
Stoecker, Randy. 1997 "The Imperfect Practice of Collaborative Research: The Working Group on Neighborhoods in Toledo, Ohio" In Phil Nyden et al. (eds.) Building Community: Social Science in Action. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
Stoecker, Randy. 1997. "The Community Development Corporation Model of Urban Redevelopment: A Critique and an Alternative." Journal of Urban Affairs 19:1-23. With responses from Rachel Bratt and Dennis Keating, and a rejoinder: "Should We, Could We, Change the CDC Model? Reply to Bratt and Keating." Journal of Urban Affairs 19:35-44. (reprinted in James DeFilippis and Susan Saegert (eds.) The Community Development Reader. Routledge Publications: New York).
Stoecker, Randy, and Angela C. S. Stuber. 1997. "Limited Access: The Information Superhighway and Ohio's Neighborhood-Based Organizations." Computers in Human Services. 14:39-57.
Stoecker, Randy. 1995. "Community Organizing and Community Development in Cedar-Riverside and East Toledo: A Comparative Study." Journal of Community Practice, 2:1-23.
Stoecker, Randy. 1995. "Community, Movement, Organization: The Problem of Identity Convergence in Collective Action." The Sociological Quarterly 36:111-130.
Morrissey, Marietta, and Randy Stoecker (joint authorship). 1994. "Marxist Theory and the Oppression of Women." In Patrick McGuire and Donald McQuarie (eds.) Marxist Sociology: Surveys of Contemporary Theory and Research. New York: General Hall.
Stoecker, Randy, Joan Mullin, Mary Schmidbauer, and Michelle Young. 1993. "Integrating Writing and the Teaching Assistant to Enhance Critical Pedagogy." Teaching Sociology 21:1-9.
Tracy, Elizabeth, and Randy Stoecker. 1993. "Homelessness: The Service Providers' Perspective on Blaming the Victim." Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 20:43-59.
Stoecker, Randy. 1993. "The Federated Front-Stage Structure and Localized Social Movements: A Case Study of the Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood Movement." Social Science Quarterly 74:169-184.
Stoecker, Randy, and David Beckwith. 1992. "Advancing Toledo's Neighborhood Movement Through Participatory Action Research: Integrating Activist and Academic Approaches." The Clinical Sociology Review 10:198-213.
Stoecker, Randy. 1992. "Who Takes Out the Garbage? Social Reproduction as a Neglected Dimension of Social Movement Research." Perspectives on Social Problems, Vol. 3, ed. Gale Miller and James A. Holstein. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
Stoecker, Randy, and Mary Schmidbauer. 1991. "Local State Reform and Class Struggle: The Case of Toledo, Ohio." Critical Sociology 18:99-123
Stoecker, Randy. 1991. "Evaluating and Rethinking the Case Study." The Sociological Review 39:88-112.
Stoecker, Randy. 1990. "Taming the Beast: Maintaining Democracy in Community-Controlled Redevelopment." The Berkeley Journal of Sociology 35:107-126.
Stoecker, Randy. 1990. "Strategies for Enhancing Learning in the Blowoff Course." Innovative Higher Education 14:141-153.
Stoecker, Randy. 1989. "Critical Theory and Feminist Praxis." Humanity and Society 13:344-364.
Bouzard, Gayle Gordon, Kristin Jonasdottir, Michael E. O'Neal, and Randy Stoecker (collective authorship). 1987. "Sociology Out to Lunch: Grad Students' Treat." The American Sociologist, 18:69-73.
Fine, Gary Alan, and Randy Stoecker. 1985. "Can the Circle Be Unbroken? Small Groups and Social Movements." Advances in Group Processes: Theory and Research, Volume II, ed. Edward J. Lawler. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press. (Reprinted in Social Psychology: Sociological Contributions, ed. Edward J. Lawler and Barry Markovsky. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1991.)
RECENT COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH REPORTS
Carys Abramson, Morgan Barlin, Abigail Janey, Katelyn Kometer, Abigail McDowell, Jenna McGowan, Priscilla Sanchez, Madison Scott, Lily Sieling, Alexis Steuart, and Randy Stoecker. 2022. “Resources to Support Proto-Business Development: Report to the Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development.”
Janel Hutchison and Randy Stoecker. 2021. Research for the Madison Area Cooperative Housing Alliance: “Needs and Desires of Madison Housing Cooperatives.”
Shira Benau, Marah Birnbaum, Emerson Encell, Julia Hagen, Hannah Hahn, Rick Kempf, Maya Pierick, Daniel Puser, James Pyecroft, Abigail Sann, Hannah Sorensen, Anna Walther, Randy Stoecker. 2020. Research for Urban Community Arts Network: “Implementing Equity for Hip-Hop in Madison.”
Guerrero, Elisa, Maire Cait Mullen, Toni Ray, and Randy Stoecker, with Natalie Carr, Avery Cotter, Anna Dawley, Jacob Erlein, Chloe Green, Kayla Kramschuster, Hannah Pauly, Julia Prange, Kathryne Ruffalo, Zoey Rugel, and Gilad Zvi. 2019. Research for Urban Community Arts Network: “Voices of Hip-Hop in Madison.”
Stoecker, Randy and Benny Witkovsky. 2018. Research for City of Madison Police Department, Centro Hispano, Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development, and Bayview Foundation: "Evaluation of The Madison Police Department – South District COPS Project".
Verbeten, Mari, Aiyana Groh, Jennifer Holland, Randy Stoecker, Iffat Bhuiyan, Bobbie Briggs, Sydney Courier-Oaster, Kathryn Giguere, Rachel Goldbaum, Grace Spella, and Sydney Weiser. 2018. Research for Urban Community Arts Network: "Hip-Hop Through the Lens of Madison Print Media."
Stoecker, Randy, Cody Fearing, Taylor Konkle, Jacquelyn Laitsch, Hannah Pierce, Claire Rater, and Teddy Varelis. With Allison Connell, Jordan Minick, Brigham Starks, and Mandy Thor. 2017. Research for Urban Community Arts Network: "Analyzing the Relationship Between Live Music Performances and Violence in Madison."
Stoecker, Randy, Erica Anderson, Cecillia Borleske, Martin Brubaker, Brittney Ehlers, Madeleine Fischer, Ryan Grist, Kathryn Hafemann, Jacqueline Hazelwood, Taylor Kaspar, Tounhia Khang, Jennifer Kovachevich, Alexandra Kubiak, Kevin Kutz, Frank Laufenberg, Leah Leonard, Julia Prieto, Olivia Riedel, Christopher Smith, and Heather Wittrock. 2015. Research for Justified Anger: reports on education, economic development, health and wellness, incarceration, and leadership.
Stoecker, Randy, Liangfei Ye, Jared Burris, Trager Metge, and Natalie Strait. 2015. Research for Community GroundWorks: Small-scale organic farmer education programs; funding sources for small-scale organic farmer education programs; survey of prospective participants for small-scale organic farmer education programs.
Stoecker, Randy, Nadia Carlson, Jenna Dart, Sonya Sedegui, Gabriel Orduna. With William Gehl, Anthony Grolemund, David Grube, James Hickey, Margrethe Hippensteel, Samantha Lewis, Kimberly Mayer, Krystal McCalvy, Erika Nickels, Daria Rydzak, Desire Smith, Robyn Steinerman, Zoe Sumnicht, Thuy Dan Tran, and Emily Young 2015. Research for Neighborhood House: "100 Years of Neighborhood House."
Willis, Catherine, and Randy Stoecker. Minden Hills and Haliburton County Consumer Survey. Prepared for U-Links and Township of Minden Hills.
Stoecker, Randy, Devorah Arnold, Kasandra Brown, Taylor Gendel, Allison Guertler, Kristi Hammond, Dylan Jordee, Tammy Nguyen, Bethanee Nitz, Olivia Ramoino, Kelsey Schroeder, Joseph Shook, Nikolas Simonson, Robert Stupar, Stephanie Tallman, Laura Thiessen. 2012. Research for southwest Madison neighborhood house planning, continued: Needs and assets surveys of residents. Prepared for SouthWest Madison Community Organizers and Hammersley area leaders group.
Stoecker, Randy, Ashleigh Ross, Annabelle Potvin, Shelbi Jentz, and Lamar Shackerford. 2012. Research for southwest Madison neighborhood house planning. Prepared for SouthWest Madison Community Organizers.
Willis, Catherine, and Randy Stoecker. 2011. "Building a Community: Report to Community Shares of Wisconsin, September 2011." Prepared for Community Shares of Wisconsin.
Stoecker, Randy, Dadit Hidayat, Chris Arnold, Grace Boblick, Michael Bukas, Mikaela Frazier, Lauren Heffron, Benjamin Kiner, Kendall King, Michael Lambeth, Cynthia Novak, Anna Parrell, Graham Ryan, and Brady Wolff. 2011. "Results of the UW Capstone Monona Sustainability Survey." Prepared for The Natural Step Monona.
Stoecker, Randy, and Catherine Willis. 2009. "Understanding the 2004 Cohort of Community Shares of Wisconsin." Prepared for Community Shares of Wisconsin.
Stoecker, Randy, and Catherine Willis, with Dan Hill, Sarah Burgert, and Art Lersch. 2008. "Challenges, Best Practices, and Creative Tensions in Wisconsin’s Community-Based Leadership Education Programs." Prepared for the University of Wisconsin Extension CNRED Community Leadership team.
Stoecker, Randy, and Catherine Willis, with Dan Hill, Sarah Burgert, and Art Lersch. 2008. "The Community Leadership Educator's Perspective on Program Sustainability." Prepared for the University of Wisconsin Extension CNRED Community Leadership team.
Stoecker, Randy. 2007. "Creative Tensions in Funder-Fundee Relations." Prepared for the State of Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services Model Communities Program.
Stoecker, Randy, and Trish O'Kane. 2007. "On the Challenges and Support Needs of Community Leadership Educators in Wisconsin." Prepared for University of Wisconsin Extension CNRED Community Leadership team.
Stoecker, Randy, and Trish O'Kane. 2007. "State Associations and Other Forms of Infrastructure Support for Leadership Development Educators." Prepared for University of Wisconsin Extension CNRED Community Leadership team.
Stoecker, Randy. 2007. "Side Effects? Personal Impacts of GLC." Prepared for the Grassroots Leadership College, Madison, Wisconsin.
Stoecker, Randy. 2007. “Order has Nothing to do with Productivity”: Creative Tensions in the 2006 Model Communities Planning Process." Prepared for the State of Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services Model Communities Program.
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
2019: Project to develop course to provide technical assistance to Black-led nonprofits, University of Wisconsin Morgridge Center for Public Service, $11,500.
2017-2018: Project to study impact of elder civic engagement on rural community development. Funded by United States Department of Agriculture Hatch grant, approximately $33,000.
2015-2017: Project to understand how rural communities can recruit and retain young people, with Katherine Curtis. Funded by United States Department of Agriculture Hatch grant, approximately $140,000.
2014-2015: Project to develop participatory education process with small-scale sustainable farmers led by Community GroundWorks. Funded by University of Wisconsin Nelson Institute Zieve Graduate Assistantship (funds a thirty-three percent assistantship for two semesters plus $1,000).
2011-2013: Project to do community building and youth organizing in southwest Madison, with Brian Christens. Funded by University of Wisconsin Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment, $99,958. With matching grant from the University of Wisconsin Morgridge Center for Public Service, $22,525.
2012-2013: Project to study outcomes of action plan of The Natural Step Monona. Funded by University of Wisconsin Nelson Institute Zieve Graduate Assistantship (funds a thirty-three percent assistantship for two semesters plus $1,000).
2011-2012: Project to implement action plan of The Natural Step Monona. Funded by University of Wisconsin Nelson Institute Zieve Graduate Assistantship (funds a thirty-three percent assistantship for two semesters plus $1,000).
2010-2011: Project to study effectiveness of The Natural Step Monona. Funded by University of Wisconsin Nelson Institute Zieve Graduate Assistantship (funds a thirty-three percent assistantship for two semesters plus $1,000).
2010-2011: Project to study inter-organizational relationships of Community Shares of Wisconsin. Funded by University of Wisconsin Graduate School, $29,375. With matching grant from the University of Wisconsin Morgridge Center for Public Service, $13,815.
2010: Project to advance rural service learning, with Pamela Proulx-Curry. Funded by North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, $14,700.
2008-2010: Project to study relationships between community-based leadership development education and community organizing as strategies to improve civic engagement in Wisconsin. Funded by United States Department of Agriculture Hatch grant, $53,328.
2008-2009: Project to develop social network software to support a community information technology science shop. Funded by University of Wisconsin Division of Information Technology, $5,000.
2007-2008: Project to establish a community information technology science shop. Funded by Corporation for National and Community Service through Princeton University, $19,500.
2007-2008: Planning grant to develop international participatory evaluation plan for participatory action research. Funded by World Universities Network, $5,000.
2007: Grant for best practices study of state leadership associations and needs association of Wisconsin leadership educators. Funded by University of Wisconsin-Extension, $3,000.
2006-2007: Participatory Evaluation of Model Communities project. Funded by State of Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, $28,964.
2006: Participatory Evaluation of Quad Counties Summer VISTA program. Funded by University of Wisconsin Extension, $9,552.
2006-2008: Study of nonprofit access to service learning across the state of Wisconsin. United States Department of Agriculture Hatch grant. $51,300.
2006: Study of what works and what doesn’t in service learning for community organizations. Funded by University of Wisconsin Morgridge Center, $1,500.
2005: Study of Hispanic/Latino population characteristics and community organization networks for the Hispanic/Latino Strategic Alliance of Greater Toledo. Funded by the University of Toledo Urban Affairs Center, $6,000.
2004-2005: Continuation of nonprofit research and data needs project: feasibility study of a neighborhood indicators system for Toledo. Funded by the University of Toledo Urban Affairs Center, $5,000.
2004: Community-based research project focusing on research and data needs of nonprofit organizations in the Toledo, Ohio metropolitan area. Funded by University of Toledo Urban Affairs Center, $5,000.
2003-2004: Case study research of Northwest Ohio Community Shares alternative fund. Funded by National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, $4,000
2002-2003: Participatory evaluation of Lagrange neighborhood Weed and Seed program. Funded by United States Department of Justice Weed and Seed program, $25,000.
2001-2003: Participatory evaluation research with Phase II of Bonner Foundation Community Research Program. Funded through Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation, $30,000.
2002: Community Organization documentation and evaluation, Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, Minneapolis. Funded by UT URAF program, $5,000.
2001-2002: Community Organization Directory and Assessment project, Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, Minneapolis. Funded by West Bank Community Development Corporation, $15,000.
2001: Documentation research of ACORN Toledo community organizing and development training program. Funded by UT Urban Affairs Center, $5,000.
1999-2000: Participatory research with Phase I of Bonner Foundation Community Research Program. Funded by Campus Compact, $7,250, 1999-2000.
1998-2000: Participatory evaluation research with Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) in Chicago and Toledo to understand effects of organizing training and education activities. Funded by ACORN, Toledo Community Foundation, and Needmor Fund, $21,682.
1996: Project to help Ohio neighborhood-based organizations achieve and use Internet access to build Ohio-wide coalition of neighborhood-based organizations and university researchers. Funded by State of Ohio Board of Regents Urban University Program, $28,160.
1995: Project to conduct comparative needs and resources assessment of Ohio urban neighborhood-based organizations using community-university collaborative methodology, with Ron Randall. Funded by State of Ohio Board of Regents Urban University Program, $69,800.
1990: University of Toledo Faculty Research Award Fellowship (to fund study of foundation funding of community-based development organizations across urban areas. $5,000.
INVITED ADDRESSES AND PRESENTATIONS
“From Passion to Payout. Understanding Black Proto-Business Development.” Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development. (online) 2023.
“History and Background on Mutual Aid.” SJH x OS Earth Week: A Cup of CommuniTEA event, University of Wisconsin-Madison (online), 2021.
“A Community Development Model of Higher Education Community Engagement.” UCF Downtown Community Engaged Scholarship Lectures. University of Central Florida. Orlando Florida (online), 2021.
“From the Margins to the Streets: Higher Ed Community Engagement for Justice.” Public Service Week Address, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (online), 2021.
“Liberating Service Learning.” Ingram Scholars Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (online), 2020.
"Participatory Action Research for Grassroots Community Change. Invited presentation for University of Wisconsin Division of Extension Community Development Institute, online, 2020.
"The Young and the Old--Changing Demographics and Strategies for Rural Communities." Invited presentation for 30th Annual Rural Community and Economic Development Conference: Making Rural an Exciting Place to Live, Springfield, IL, 2019.
"On the Path to Liberating Service Learning" Invited presentation for Kettering University, Flint, MI, 2019.
"Hip Hop, Campus-Community Collaboration and the Old White Guy Professor." Invited presentation for Belmont University, Nashville, TN, 2018.
"Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement. " Invited plenary presentation for 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities. Washington, DC, 2018.
"Gaining and Maintaining Young Adults in Wisconsin." Invited presentation for joint Stoughton school board and city council gathering. Stoughton, WI. 2018.
"Gaining and Maintaining Young Adults in Wisconsin." Invited presentation for Antigo public library gathering. Antigo, WI. 2018.
"Gaining and Maintaining Young Adults in Wisconsin." Invited presentation for Sauk Prairie Area Chamber of Commerce gathering. Sauk City, WI. 2018.
"Gaining and Maintaining Young Adults in Wisconsin." Invited presentation for Wausau Area Chamber of Commerce gathering. Wausau, WI. 2018.
"Gaining and Maintaining Young Adults in Wisconsin." Invited presentation for League of Wisconsin Municipalities. Oconto, WI, Chippewa Falls, WI, 2017.
"Gaining and Maintaining Young Adults in Wisconsin: The Plover Case Compared" Central Wisconsin Economic Research Bureau quarterly meeting, Plover, WI, 2017.
"Liberating Service Learning." All-group address prepared for Fall 2017 Bonner Directors Meeting, Buckeystown MD, 2017.
"Hip Hop, Campus-Community Collaboration and the Old White Guy Professor." Invited Presented for Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, 2017.
"Liberating Service Learning: A Dangerous Idea for a Dangerous Time." Keynote address prepared for Connecting Connecting Campus and Community: A Conference on Community-Based Learning and Research. Earlham College, Richmond IN, 2017.
"Gaining and Maintaining Young Adults in Wisconsin." Invited presentations for Regional Insights on the Economy. Shell Lake, WI, 2017; Hurley, WI, 2017; Ladysmith, WI, 2017.
"Liberating Service Learning." Invited webinar prepared for Utah Campus Compact, Salt Lake City, UT, 2017.
"Community Development: Beyond Needs and Assets." Invited webinar prepared for Forward Community Investments, Madison, WI, 2017.
"Liberating Service Learning." Invited presentation prepared for University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 2017.
"Service Learning and the Long Arc." Keynote address prepared for the Gulf-South Summit on Service Learning & Civic Engagement Through Higher Education. Greensboro, NC, 2017.
"Liberating Service Learning." Invited presentation prepared for Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2017.
"Gaining and Maintaining Young Adults in Wisconsin." With Amanda Hoffman and Matt Calvert. Keynote address prepared for the Wisconsin Rural Summit. Green Lake, WI, 2017.
"Toward Liberating Service Learning." Keynote address prepared for the New England Faculty Development Consortium, Worcester, MA, 2016.
"Messing With Categories." Keynote address prepared for Engaged Scholar Day, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, 2015.
"From First Contact to Full Impact: Community-Based Research in Motion." Presentation prepared for Western University Public Sociology Colloquium Series, London, Ontario, 2015.
"Rethinking Community Based Research." Keynote address prepared for the Summer Workshop Series: Collaborative Research in Community Contexts, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2014.
"Engaged Scholarship for Social Change: It’s Not Difficult, Just Hard." Keynote address prepared for the 6th Annual Symposium of the NYMAPS Collaborative, New York, NY, 2014.
"Rethinking Engaged Learning: Who, How, Why." Keynote address prepared for the AAEEBL Midwest US Regional Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, 2014.
"Learning, Service, Community, and Change: Challenging the Conventions of University-Community Engagement." Presentation, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 2014
“Research and Social Change: The Ethics and Practice of Producing Knowledge for Social Transformation.” Presentation, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 2014.
"The Nuts and Bolts of Engaging Community around Local Issues." Keynote address prepared for the Utah Engaged Faculty Institute, Homestead Resort, Midway, Utah, 2013.
“Rethinking Higher Education Community Engagement: New Theories, New Practices.” Presentation, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada, 2013.
Stoecker, Randy. “Hopes and Fears in Higher Education Community Engagement.” Presentation, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada, 2013.
"Meeting the Challenges, and Realizing the Promises, of Higher Education Community Engagement." Presentation, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, 2013.
"Beginning with Community." Presentation, UW System Civic Engagement Impacts Meeting, Wisconsin Dells, 2013.
"Community Change and the College Classroom." Keynote address prepared for the NEW ERA Faculty Dialogue Group annual conference, University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac, WI, 2013.
"The Value of Service-Learning." Keynote address prepared for Service Learning Showcase, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2013.
"From Colonizing Research to Strategizing Change." Presentation, International Studies in Planning lecture series, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2013.
"Toward Higher Education Civic Engagement that Matters." Keynote address prepared for the Summit on Service Learning, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 2013.
"Beyond the Savior-Servant-Scallywag Syndrome: Toward Authentic Community Engagement." Keynote address prepared for the Michigan Campus Compact Civic Engagement and Service Learning Institute, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 2012.
"Meeting the Challenges, and Realizing the Promises, of Higher Education Community Engagement." Presentation, Seattle University, 2012.
"An Academic-Community Partnership for Addressing Environmental Problems." Prepared for Wednesday Night at the Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011, with Dadit Hidayat and Heather Gates.
"Community Outcomes." Keynote address prepared for the Canadian Alliance for Community Service Learning Symposium, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada, 2011.
"Building Partnerships with Service Learning." Keynote address prepared for the Fourth Annual Great Northwoods Service Learning Conference, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 2011.
"A New Age of Student Civic Engagement?" Presentation, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, 2011.
"Academic Service Learning: How to Connect to the Community." Presentation, Northern Michigan University, 2011.
"Higher Education Community Engagement in Rural Areas," NCRCRD Webinar Series, 2011.
"When the Community Leads: Making Higher Education Relevant," with Crystel Anders and Catherine Willis. Morgridge Center for Public Service, University of Wisconsin, 2011.
"Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader: Competing Paradigms in Community-Engaged Scholarship." Presentation, Cornell University, 2010.
"The CDC Model of Urban Redevelopment: Lessons Learned from the Place-Based Approach." Presentation, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Community Development Forum, 2010.
"Maximizing the Community Benefits of Service-Learning." With Elizabeth Tryon and Amy Mondloch. Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Educational Conference Call, 2010.
"Campus-Community Collaborations: New Models for Real Outcomes." Presentation, Duffy Colloquium, Beloit College Liberal Arts in Practice Center, 2010.
"Service Learning in Metropolis and Beyond." Keynote address prepared for the 7th Annual Eastern Carolina University Conference on Service Learning, 2010.
“Community Engagement across the Curriculum: Considerations of Student and Community Impact.” Presentation, Clark University Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, 2010.
"Community Engagement and the Two Forms of Social Change." Presentation, Cornell University Public Service Center seminar series, 2010.
"Research as Colonization: Ending Our Complicity in Oppressive Global Relations." Keynote address prepared for the Sixth Annual Social Theory Forum, University of Massachusetts, Boston, 2009.
"Removing Barriers and Biases - Finding Common Interests for Improved Health." Northern Midwest Regional Community Engagement Workshop. University of Chicago, Chicago, WI, 2008.
"Dating to Marriage: The Community-School Relationship." Keynote address prepared for South Eastern Wisconsin Service Learning Consortium Service Learning Academy, St. Francis, WI, 2008.
"Who is Served by Service Learning?" University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2008.
"Community-Based Research: Tapping the Power of University-Community Collaborations." Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, 2008.
"CBR 4 CBOs: What the Heck is that?" Prepared for Boone, North Carolina community, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, 2008.
"CBR and the Two Forms of Social Change." Keynote address prepared for Learn and Serve America: Higher Education National Community-Based Research Networking Initiative Subgrantee Meeting, St. Paul, Minnesota, 2007.
"Honey, Vinegar, Community Organizing, and the Political Opportunity Structure," Department of Rural Sociology Seminar Series, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. 2007.
"Community Based Research," School of Music and Center for Community Networking Research, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. 2007.
"Research for Social Change," Centre for Human Rights Education and Department of Social Work and Social Policy, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. 2007.
"The (dis)Connection between Community Engagement and Community Development." Sociology Speaker Series. Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee. 2007.
“Confrontation or Consensus: Which Path to the Participatory City." Mary Jo Huth Memorial Urban Symposium lecture. University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio. 2006.
"Dos and Don'ts in Participatory Research." Hardy Chair Lecture Series. Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, 2006.
"Dating to Marriage: The Opportunities & Challenges of Long-Term University Commitment to Community." Keynote address delivered to the U-Links annual Celebration of Research, Haliburton, Ontario, Canada. 2006.
"Savior, Servant, or Scallywag: Ethical Challenges of Community Engagement." Trent University Ashley Fellowship lecture, Peterborough, Ontario, 2006.
"Why Don't We do More Participatory Research." Keynote address delivered to The First CSU Conference on Community-Based Teaching and Research: Creating Knowledge and Building Community. Cal Poly, Pomona. 2006.
"Creative Tensions in North American Participatory Action Research." Primer encuentro Internacional de Investigadores en Acción PICE, Venezuela, 2005. (video presentation).
"Creative Tensions in the New Community-Based Research." Keynote address delivered to the Community-Based Research Network Symposium, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 2004.
"Toward a People's Technology." Keynote address delivered to the "Community and Information Technology: the Big Questions" search conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. 2002.
"Community-University Collaborations: Future Choices." Keynote address delivered to the University of Texas El Paso Center for Civic Engagement's 4th Annual Retreat, 2002.
"Some Questions as we Begin: Thinking About Community-Based Research." Keynote address delivered to the "Best Practices in Undergraduate Community-Based Research: Challenges and Opportunities for the Research University" conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2002.
"Power or Programs? Two Paths to Community Development." Keynote address delivered to the International Association for Community Development Conference, Rotorua, Aotearoa/New Zealand, 2001.
"The "Dot-Orging" of Community: Community Change, Development, and the Internet." Keynote address, Creating and Sustaining On-Line Communities 2000 conference, Mandurah, Western Australia, Australia, 2000.
"The Titanic, Pizza Delivery, Community Development, and the Internet." Keynote address, Third Communities Networking/Networking Communities Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 1998.
RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Paul Roback, Randy Stoeker, Jennifer Gauthier, Victoria Solomon, Diana Hammer. 2022. Identifying and Realizing Scholarship Opportunities while working with Community Organizations. Wisconsin Joint Council of Extension Professionals annual meetings, online.
Tessa Conroy, Jennifer Gauthier, Paul Roback, Kristin Runge, Randy Stoecker. 2021. Opportunities & Obstacles: Creating a Vision of Support for Scholarship in Extension. All Colleague Professional Development Virtual Conference. University of Wisconsin Division of Extension.
Stoecker, Randy, and Angie Allen. 2021. A Strategy for Scholarship in Extension. Wisconsin Joint Council of Extension Professionals annual meetings, online.
Stoecker, Randy, 2020. “Mutual Aid During COVID-19.” The Informatics of Mutual Aid: Historical & International Perspectives. Community Informatics Virtual Seminar Series, Community Informatics Research Network, 2020.
Wilson, Greg, and Randy Stoecker. 2020. "Not-Profiting, but Persisting: The Experiences of Black-led Organizations in the Racialized Nonprofit Sector." American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, online.
Stoecker, Randy. 2020. "Mutual Aid and the World as it Should Be" Converge Mutual Aid Group, online.
Stoecker, Randy. 2020. "Mutual Aid During COVID-19. Joint Council of Extension Professionals, Wisconsin Chapter, Forward Fridays Series, online.
Stoecker, Randy, and Karen Reece. 2019. “Four Years of Participatory Action Research for Hip-Hop Justice." University of Wisconsin-Extension Community Development Institute Scholarship Exchange, Madison, WI. Stoecker, Randy. 2019. "Bringing Community Organizing Training to the College Classroom." American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, New York, NY.
Chmielewski, Steve, and Randy Stoecker. 2019. "Building Capacity and Leadership Development: An Extension Response with Middle Neighborhoods." National Urban Extension Conference, Seattle, WA.
Stoecker, Randy. 2019. "Synergizing Community Development and Research Through the Science Shop Model." Community Development Society 50th Anniversary Conference, Columbia, MO.
Sandwick, Nathan, and Randy Stoecker. 2019. "Making Place for Young Adults in Wisconsin Communities." Wisconsin Joint Council of Extension Professionals, Stevens Point, WI.
Stoecker, Randy. 2018. "Weaving Research With Social Change Work." 2018 Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Stoecker, Randy, Benny Witkovsky, and Elisa Avila. 2018. "The Civic Engagement of Retirement-Aged People" (poster presentation). 2018 University of Wisconsin-Extension All-Colleagues Conference. Madison, WI.
Stoecker, Randy and the Engaging Young People Team. 2018. "Gaining and Maintaining Young People in Wisconsin" (poster presentation). 2018 University of Wisconsin-Extension All-Colleagues Conference. Madison, WI.
Avila, Elisa, and Randy Stoecker. 2018. "Elder Civic Engagement and Rural Community Development." 2018 Rural Sociological Society Annual Meetings. Portland, OR.
Stoecker, Randy, and Allyson Watson. 2018. " Gaining and Maintaining Young People in Wisconsin Communities."Joint Conference of Extension Professionals. Wisconsin Dells, WI.
Stoecker, Randy, and Taylor Konkle. 2018. "Tackling Discrimination against Hip-Hop in Madison, Wisconsin through Action Research." Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, MN.
Stoecker, Randy, Karen Reece, and Taylor Konkle. 2018. "Hip Hop, Community-Campus Collaboration, and the Old White Guy Professor." OPID Spring Conference on Teaching and Learning. Madison, WI.
Stoecker, Randy. 2017. "Elders in Society: Burden or Boon?" Aging & Society: Seventh Interdisciplinary Conference. Berkeley, CA.
Stoecker, Randy, and Allyson Watson. 2017. "Exploring Brain Gain in Wisconsin." Wisconsin Downtown Summit. Sheboygan, WI.
Stoecker, Randy, Jim Blake, and Catherine Willis. 2017. "Community, Commitment, and Independence: Lessons from three Ontario Community-Based Science Shops." C2U Expo, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Stoecker, Randy. "Teaching the Community-Engaged Capstone Course." John Sarvey Institute, Santa Cruz, CA, 2017.
Stoecker, Randy. "Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement." 7th Living Knowledge Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2016.
Stoecker, Randy, Matthew Calvert, and Daniel Veroff. "Gaining and Retaining Young Adults in Communities." Presented at the UWEX CRD Annual Symposium, Treehaven, Tomahawk, WI, 2016.
Stoecker, Randy, Liangfei Ye, Todd Flournoy, Amanda Hoffma. "Youth-drain and brain-drain, or brain-gain and boomerangs?" Rural Sociological Society annual meetings, Bloomington, MN, 2016.
Stoecker, Randy, Judy Brey, and John Dietz. "Grassroots Groups in Action - Round Table on Improving the Effectiveness of your Grassroots Group:" Wisconsin Grassroots Network Festival, Mazomanie, WI, 2016.
Stoecker, Randy, "Community-Based Participatory Research." Community Development Extension Institute, Jackson, WY, 2016.
Stoecker, Randy, Liangfei Ye, Todd Flournoy. "Gaining and Retaining Young People-which Wisconsin Cities are winning the Millennial Sweepstakes " 2016 Urban Policy Forum, League of Wisconsin Municipalities.
Stoecker, Randy. “Liberating Service Learning: Exploring a New Conceptual Framework.” Campus Compact 30th Anniversary Conference, Boston, MA, 2016.
Stoecker, Randy. "Liberating Service Learning." Midwest ECO Conference. Madison, WI, 2015.
Stoecker, Randy, Catherine Willis, Todd Barr, Joshua Feltham. "Creating Community-Based Leadership to Guide Higher Education Engagement in Urban and Rural Settings." C2UExpo, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2015.
Stoecker, Randy. "Changing the Way We Change the System." 2015 NCWIT Summit on Women and IT: practices and ideas to revolutionize computing, Hilton Head, SC, 2015.
Stoecker, Randy. "Learning, Service, Community, and Change: Challenging the Conventions of University-Community Engagement." 15th Annual Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2014.
Stoecker, Randy. "Learning, Service, Community, and Change: The Surprising Problems with the Core Concepts of Higher Education Community Engagement." Upper Midwest Civic Engagement Summit, Menomonie, WI, 2014.
Mungavan, Tim, Anne Gomez, Randy Stoecker, and Hussein Ahmed. "A Half-Century of Higher Education Community Engagement in Cedar-Riverside: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." What Went Wrong: Reflecting and Learning from Community-Engaged Research, July 11-12, Minneapolis, MN, 2014.
Stoecker, Randy, and Clara Roman-Odio. "Building a Community-Based Research Infrastructure in a Liberal Arts College from Scratch." 6th Living Knowledge Conference, 9-11 April, Copenhagen, Denmark 2014.
Stoecker, Randy, and Brian Christens. "Community-Led Collaboration for Real Outcomes." 6th Living Knowledge Conference, 9-11 April, Copenhagen, Denmark 2014.
Stoecker, Randy, Brian Christens, and Kim Neuschel. " Many Partners, Many Community Residents, Many Moving Parts: Bringing it All Together for Maximum Community Impact." CU-Expo, Corner Brook, Newfoundland, CA, 2013.
Stoecker, Randy, Catherine Willis, and Crystel Anders. "Community-Based Research and Non-Profit Organizations: Funding Movement Building with Community Shares of Wisconsin." CU-Expo, Corner Brook, Newfoundland, CA, 2013.
Stoecker, Randy, and Brian Christens. “Why Academics do CBR.” Midwest Knowledge Mobilization Network meeting, Madison, WI, 2013.
Braatz, Jerry, Laura Dombrock, Amy Greil, Randy Stoecker and Ann Wied. "Organizing Neighborhoods for Community Development and Change." National Urban Extension Conference. Kansas City, KS, 2013.
Stoecker, Randy, and Spencer Wood. "The State of Rural Service Learning." Rural Sociological Society Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 2012.
Braatz, Jerry, Steve Chmielewski, Laura Dombrock, Amy Greil, Randy Stoecker, Ann Wied. "Organizing Neighborhoods for Community Development." CNRED Program Colloquium & CRD Symposium, Wisconsin Dells, WI, 2012.
Nyden, Phil, and Randy Stoecker. "A brief History of Science Shops." Midwest Science Shop meeting, Chicago, IL, 2012.
Stoecker, Randy. “What I’ve Learned from Community Engagement Professionals: My Own Service-Learning Reflection Paper.” National Outreach and Engagement Scholarship Conference, Outreach & Engagement Staff Pre-conference Workshop, East Lansing, MI, 2011.
Willis, Catherine, and Randy Stoecker. "Grassroots Civic Engagement Organizations and Leadership Education." Rural Sociological Society Annual Conference, Boise, ID, 2011.
Stoecker, Randy, Catherine Willis and Crystel Anders. "Workplace Campaigns: From Access to Outcomes." Community Shares USA Conference, Chicago, 2011.
Braatz, Jerry, Ann Wied, Randy Stoecker, Maria Habib, Martha Hubert. "Crossing Program Barriers, a Team Approach to Delivering Urban Extension Outreach." Urban Extension Conference, Des Moines, IA, 2011.
Stoecker, Randy, and Mary Beckman. "A Community Development Model for Higher Education Community Engagement." CU-Expo Conference, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada, 2011.
Braatz, Jerry, Steven Chmielewski, Laura Dombrock, Maria Habib, Jan Skell, and Randy Stoecker, Crossing Program Barriers: A Team Approach to Delivering Urban Extension Outreach.University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension State Conference, Madison, 2010.
Stoecker, Randy. "County Extension and College Students." Poster Presentation. University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension State Conference, Madison, 2010.
Stoecker, Randy. "What is a Healthy Community?" Altering the Face and the Heart of America: The Gard Symposium. Madison, WI, 2010.
Stoecker, Randy, Catherine Willis, Crystel Anders, Myla Burns, and Deb Furry. "Research Based Strategies --Testing CS WI Assumptions for Growth." Community Shares USA Annual Meetings, Las Vegas, NV, 2010.
Braatz, Jerry, Juana vila, Steve Chmielewski, Laura Dombrock, Ann Wied, and Randy Stoecker. "Organizing Residents in Waukesha Neighborhoods: An Urban Approach." WACEC Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 2010.
Stoecker, Randy. “Maximizing Community Outcomes: Bringing Community Development Practice into Higher Education Community Engagement.” Living Knowledge Conference, Belfast, UK, 2009.
Stoecker, Randy, and Catherine Willis. "Grassroots Civic Engagement and Leadership Development in Rural Wisconsin." Rural Sociological Society annual meetings, Madison, WI, 2009.
Stoecker, Randy. "Using Project-Based Research to Support Community Action: The TechShop Madison Project." Poster presentation, National Outreach Scholarship Conference. Athens, GA, 2009.
Dane, Andrew, and Randy Stoecker. "Design, Implement and Evaluate your Local Food Program." 3rd Annual Wisconsin Local Food Summit, Wisconsin Rapids, WI, 2009.
AWARDS & HONORS
2018. University of Wisconsin-Madison Active Learning Spaces Fellowship.
2017. Joint Council of Extension Professionals, Wisconsin, Team Award. Received with a large number of others.
2017. University of Wisconsin-Madison Active Learning Spaces Fellowship.
2017. University of Wisconsin-Madison Community-University Partnership Award. Received with Urban Community Arts Network.
2015. University of Wisconsin-Madison Blended Learning Fellowship.
2014. Fulbright Specialist roster appointment.
2013. Community-University Partnership Award. Received with Brian Christens, Ali Brooks, Marian Slaughter, SouthWest Madison Community Organizers, and Department of Public Health Madison & Dane County.
2009. Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Civic Engagement. Received by UW Extension Center for Community and Economic Development.
2007. Brenda Pfaehler Award of Excellence, University of Wisconsin
2007. American Democracy Project, North Central Regional Conference "Most Sustainable Project" award for service learning assessment model. Received with Elizabeth Tryon and Charity Schmidt.
2005-2006: Trent University 2005/2006 Ashley Fellow
2004: Monash University (Australia) Senior Research Fellow
2003: University of Toledo Distance Learning Summer Faculty Fellowship
2000: University of Toledo Writing Across the Curriculum Teaching Award.
1999 University of Toledo Center for Teaching Excellence Summer Faculty Fellowship
1997 University of Toledo Center for Teaching Excellence Summer Faculty Fellowship
1996-1997: University of Toledo Dean's Special Merit Award.
1994-1995: University of Toledo Dean's Special Merit Award.
1992-1993: University of Toledo Office of Accessibility and Challenged Individuals Association Teacher of the Year.
RECENT WORKSHOP FACILITATION
"Community Engagement Workshop." Loyola University Maryland. 2023.
"Using Data to Inform Decision-Making." Local Government Leadership Academy, University of Wisconsin-Extension, 2022, 2023.
"Implementing Liberating Service Learning." Public Service Week, University of Virginia, Charlottes, VA, 2021.
Participatory action research training, Community Development Academy, University of Missouri Extension, 1998, 1999, 2001-2019.
Community organizing training, Community Development Academy, University of Missouri Extension, 2012-2019.
"Using Data for Effective Leadership" training workshop facilitator, Brushy Fork Leadership Summit, Berea College, Berea, KY, 2019.
Community organizing training, Bayview Community Foundation, Madison, WI, 2019.
"Teaching Community-Engaged Classes," Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019.
"Neighborhood Empowerment Program." University of Wisconsin Extension Waukesha County, 2018.
"Putting the Liberating Service Learning Model Into Practice." Fall 2017 Bonner Directors Meeting, Buckeystown MD. 2017.
"How to Live Dangerously." Earlham College, Richmond IN, 2017.
"Harnessing a Community Development Model in Service Learning," Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 2017.
"Liberating Service Learning," Gulf-South Summit on Service Learning and Civic Engagement Through Higher Education, Greensboro, NC, 2017.
"Liberating Service Learning," Ingram Scholars program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2017.
"Liberating Service Learning," OACS program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2017.
"Liberating Service Learning," St. Michael's College, Colchester Vermont, 2016.
Mobile Learning Workshop, "Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood Tour," Community Development Society annual meetings, Bloomington, MN, 2016.
2016 Pen to Paper Writing Retreat, Campus Compact, George Williams College, Williams Bay, WI, 2016.
"Finding A Purpose for Blended Learning in a Community-Engaged Capstone Course," Annual Teaching and Learning Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016.
"Community-Based Participatory Research." Post-Conference workshop, Community Development Extension Institute, Jackson, WY, 2016.
"How to Attract and Keep People Involved in Your Grassroots Group." Wisconsin Grassroots Network Festival, Mazomanie, WI, 2016.
“Workshop on Community-Engaged Scholarship and Teaching.” University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2016.
"From Service Learning for Students to Knowledge Mobilization for Justice" Deep Dive Session, Upper Midwest Civic Engagement Summit, Iowa City, Iowa, 2016.
"Hearing Each Other’s Voices: A conversation about building strong campus-community partnerships." Berea College, Berea, KY, 2015.
"Knowledge Mobilization through Community-Based Research and Project-Based Service Learning." Berea College, Berea, KY, 2015.
Community engaged faculty workshop, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, 2015.
Connecting Neighbourhoods Workshop, Old East Village Community Association, London, Ontario, Canada, 2015.
"Can You Have It All? Do You Want It All?" Summer Workshop Series: Collaborative Research in Community Contexts, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2014.
“Community-Based Research.” Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2014.
"Community-Based Research as a Higher Form of Service-Learning." The 6th Annual Symposium of the NYMAPS Collaborative. New York, NY, 2014.
"Community-Based Research and Service Learning Faculty Seminar." Kenyon College, 2013, 2014.
“Community Issues Organizing,” Seeds of Change, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, 2013.
"A Project-Based Approach to Higher Ed Community Engagement.” Association for Humanist Sociology annual meetings, Arlington VA, 2013.
"Designing and Achieving Community Level Outcomes." Utah Engaged Faculty Institute, Homestead Resort, Midway, Utah, 2013.
"Cutting the Issues and Building our Power." Progressive Partners second annual meeting, Waunakee, WI, 2013.
Rural Alliance for Service Learning, Racine, WI, 2013.
"Learning the Ropes, and Avoiding the Knots, of Community-Based Research." Cornell University, 2013.
"Community Impact Session." Summit on Service Learning, Western Michigan University, 2013.
"Service-Learning." Northern Illinois University, 2013.
"Service-Learning." Sheboygan, WI, 2013.
"PAR: Engaging Communities in their own Sustainability." University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension team meeting: Engaging Young People in Sustaining Communities, Families, and Farms, Eau Claire, WI, 2012.
"Building on the Edge: Graduate Students, Part-Time Faculty and Instructors Creating Opportunities for Students and the Community." Pre-conference workshop, Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology conference, Milwaukee, WI, 2012. With Catherine Willis and Dadit Hidayat.
"Community Impact." Wisconsin Campus Compact regional gatherings, 2012.
"A Community Development Approach to Higher Education Community Engagement." Michigan Campus Compact Civic Engagement and Service Learning Institute, East Lansing, MI, 2012.
Action research writing workshop, Roskilde University, Denmark, 2012.
University of Cincinnati Action Research Center, 2012.
TRUCEN annual meeting, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2012.
"Maximizing Community Outcomes," VISTA in-service training, Green Lake, WI, 2011, 2012.
National Outreach and Engagement Scholarship Conference, Outreach & Engagement Staff Preconference Workshop, East Lansing, MI, 2011.
Conference facilitator, Rural Alliance for Service Learning Summit, Racine, WI, 2011.
"Reciprocity in Campus-Community Partnerships," Eastern Region Campus Compact Conference, New York, NY, 2011.
"Just Connections Partnership Workshop," Maryville, TN, 2011.
"Re-imagining Service-Learning Partnerships: Balancing Community and University Interests." Community & Faculty Service-Learning Summer Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2011.
"Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement," Canadian Alliance for Community Service Learning Symposium, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada, 2011
"Community Engagement as Ally Work," Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 2011.
"Community Service Learning Workshop," UW-Baraboo/Sauk County, 2011.
UW-Colleges and UW-Extension service learning collaboration, Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service, UW-Baraboo/Sauk County, 2011.
UW-Colleges and UW-Extension service learning collaboration, Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service, UW-Sheboygan, 2011.
UW-Colleges and UW-Extension service learning collaboration, Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service, UW-Barron County, 2011.
UW-Colleges and UW-Extension service learning collaboration, Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service, UW-Baraboo/Sauk County, 2010.
UW-Colleges and UW-Extension service learning collaboration, Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service, UW-Sheboygan, 2010.
UW-Colleges and UW-Extension service learning collaboration, Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service, UW-Barron County, 2010.
“Building Successful Community-Extension-Researcher Partnerships,” Missouri CommUNITY Partnerships 2010 Conference, Columbia, MO, 2010.
Conference co-organizer and facilitator, Rural Service Learning Summit, Racine, WI, 2010.
"Something Important Is Happening Here: Framing Issues to Inspire Social Action." Grassroots Leadership College, Madison, WI, 2010.
"Community Organizing and Participatory Research." CCHD Symposium, 2010. University of Notre Dame. With Linda Plitt Donaldson,
"Community-Based Research Workshop." Knox College, Galesburg, IL, 2010.
Community Forum co-organizer and facilitator, Tools for Community Organizing: Building Our Toolbox. Madison, WI, 2010.
Conference co-organizer and facilitator, Wisconsin Community Leadership Coordinators Conference. Green Bay, WI 2010.
Workshop co-facilitator, "The Community-Campus Knowledge Exchange: How Can We Structure Community-Based Learning." With Elizabeth Tryon and Katherine Loving. University of Wisconsin Teaching and Learning Symposium. Madison, WI, 2010.
"Expanding the Research--Examining New Sites and Other Strategies." Community Shares USA Annual Meetings, Las Vegas, NV, 2010.
"Making Higher Education Civic Engagement Matter in the Community." University of Nevada Las Vegas, 2010.
"Community-Based Learning: Effective Practice and Partnerships." Colleges of Worcester Consortium, 2010."
"Community Development: Amplifying the Community Voice in Service Learning." 7th Annual Eastern Carolina University Conference on Service Learning, 2010.
"Are YOU Getting What You Want from Your Local Higher Education's Community Based Initiatives?" Ithaca, New York, 2010.
Emerging Engagement Scholars 2009 Workshop. Athens GA, 2009.
"Community-based Research (CBR) and Service Learning: “Moving Toward a Community Development Model." Maryville College, 2009.
"Community-Based Research." Otterbein College, 2009.
"Program Evaluation." 2009 Wisconsin Community Health Worker Network Conference, Pewaukee, WI, 2009.
Great Northwoods Service Learning Workshop, Wausau, WI, 2009.
Center for California Cultural and Social Issues, Pitzer College, 2009.
"Student Community Engagement, Pitzer College, 2009.
Workshop facilitator and Panel Moderator, "Community Engagement." Denison University, 2009.
"Student Community Engagement." Denison University, 2009.
Community organizing Training workshop series, University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension, Waukesha, WI, 2007-2009.
RECENT EVALUATION/PLANNING FACILITATION
Wormfarm Institute, 2023-present.
The Hmong Institute, 2022-present
Little Eagle Arts Foundation, 2023.
Food, Faith, and Farming Network, 2021.
Rural/Urban FLOW, Wisconsin, 2019.
Madison Police Department Citizens Advisory Board Initiative, 2016-2018.
CFICE, Ottawa, Canada, 2016-2017.
Protecting Innocent Families international network, 2016-2017.
Madison Bikes, Madison, WI, 2016, 2017, 2018.
Neighborhood Organizers Institute, 2015-2016.
GROW Coalition, Madison, WI, 2014.
Poverty Reduction Network, Peterborough, ON, Canada, 2012.
Local food systems actors, Haliburton, OH, Canada, 2012.
The Natural Step Monona, Monona, WI, 2011.
Grassroots Leadership College, Madison, WI, 2011.
Trent Centre for Community Based Education and U-Links, Minden, Ontario, Canada, 2011.
SouthWest Community Organizing Committee, Madison, WI, 2011.
Community Change Circles, Waukesha, WI, 2011.
Drug Free Communities, Waukesha, WI, 2011, 2010.
Project BRIC, United Cerebral Palsy, Eau Claire, WI, 2010.
Community Groundworks at Troy Gardens, Madison, WI, 2009-10.
University of Wisconsin Applied Population Lab, Madison, WI, 2010.
Interfaith Funders, New York, NY, 2010.
Grassroots Leadership College, Madison, WI, 2010.
Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition, Madison, WI, 2009.
Dania Partners, 2008-2009.
Friends of Troy Gardens, Madison, WI, 2007, 2008, 2009.
OTHER RECENT COMMUNITY SERVICE
Panelist, Ascending in Wisconsin convening, Aspen Institute, Milwaukee, WI, 2024.
Map of BIPOC nonprofits in Wisconsin, Applied Population Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2022-2023.
Research technical support, Hmong Institute, 2022-present.
Panelist, "From Passion to Payout: Understanding Black Proto-Business Development," Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development / Justified Anger, Madison, WI, 2023.
Training support, Southwest Madison Action Coalition, 2022.
Research support, Madison Area Cooperative Housing Alliance, Madison, WI, 2020-2021.
Research and technical support, Kinship Mentoring of Columbia County, Portage, WI, 2020.
Community-based research technical assistance, Toni House, Oneida Nation, Wisconsin, 2019-2020.
COVID-19 research support, Public Health Madison-Dane County, Madison, WI, 2020.
Panelist, Black Nonprofits in Madison, Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development, Madison, WI, 2020.
Panelist, Digital Inclusion Breakfast, DANEnet, Madison WI, 2019.
Community-based research technical assistance, League of Conservation Voters, Wisconsin, 2019-2020.
Community organizing technical assistance, Bayview Foundation, Madison, WI, 2018-2020.
Research technical assistance, DANEnet, 2017-2018.
Technical assistance, Dane Arts Mural Arts, Madison, WI, 2014-2018.
Technical assistance, We Help One Another, Madison, WI, 2016-2018.
Technical assistance, Protecting Innocent Families international network, 2016-2018.
Lecture series, "100 Years of Neighborhood House." Neighborhood House, Madison, WI. May, June, July, September, 2016.
Summary reflections, Circles of Leadership, Middleton, WI, 2015.
Technical assistance, Community Shares of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 2015.
Technical assistance, Rising Suns, Madison, WI, 2014.
Connector, Consulting for Organizational Reflection and Effectiveness, Madison, WI, 2014.
Technical assistance, City of Madison Police Department on building community relationships, Madison, WI, 2012-2014.
Technical assistance, SouthWest Madison Community Organizers, 2011-2014.
Technical assistance, Center for Families, Madison, WI, 2013-2014.
Technical assistance, Township of Minden Hills consumer action research project, Minden, ON, Canada, 2013.
Editor/Moderator, COMM-ORG, the On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development http://comm-org.wisc.edu, 1996 to 2015.
Technical assistance, Meadowood neighborhood planning process, 2011.
Technical assistance, Madison Neighborhood Summit, 2010.
Faculty coordinator, TechShop Madison project, 2007-2010.
Trainer, how to cut an issue, South Metropolitan Planning Commission, Madison, WI, 2009.
Facilitator and panelist, Community-Campus Knowledge Exchange, Madison, WI, 2009.
Facilitator, Wisconsin Rural Leadership Program, Tomahawk, WI, 2007, 2009.
OTHER RECENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member, University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension Research Task Force, 2021-2022.
Member, University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension Strategic Planning team, 2019-2021.
Editorial board member, Engaged Scholar Journal, 2015-2021.
Editorial board member, Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning and Community-Based Research, 2012-2021.
Editorial board member, Rural Studies, 2012-2021.
Member, University of Wisconsin-Madison Suicide Prevention Council, 2018-2020
On-line discussion co-organizer and facilitator with Adrienne Falcon. The Intersection of Participatory Action Research and Community Development. 2020.
Panel co-organizer with Alessandra Seiter, The Informatics of Mutual Aid: Historical & International Perspectives. Community Informatics Virtual Seminar Series, Community Informatics Research Network, 2020.
External Program Reviewer, University of Oklahoma, 2020.
Discussion Facilitator, Principles of Good Practice for Community Development, University of Wisconsin Division of Extension (online), 2020.
Proposal Reviewer, National Science Foundation, 2020.
Associate Editor, Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning, 2008-2019.
Proposal Reviewer, National Science Foundation, 2019.
Proposal Reviewer, Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. 2019.
Panelist, session on "Activist Knowledge and Movement Research" American Sociological Society Annual Meetings, New York, NY, 2019.
Consulting with Waukesha County UW Extension, 2005-2018.
Panelist, session on "Opportunities for Applied Research in Non-Agricultural Scholarship Programs," Rural Sociological Society Annual Meetings, Portland, OR, 2018.
Member, University of Wisconsin-Extension Engaging Young People in Sustaining Communities, Families and Farms foundational team, 2012-2018.
Member, University of Wisconsin-Extension Community-Based Leadership team, 2009-2018.
Panelist, session on "Local Meets the Global," Global Knowledges and Local Universities conference, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2018.
reviewer, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, 2016.
Proposal reviewer, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, 2016.
Roundtable presenter and facilitator, Critical Conversations on Neoliberal Corruption of Higher Education Community Engagement, C2U Expo conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2017.
External reviewer, University of Vermont Department of Community Development and Applied Economics, 2016.
Roundtable facilitator, American Sociological Association annual meetings, Chicago, IL, 2015.
Presentation on community organizing, Metro East In-service, University of Wisconsin-Extension, 2015.
Presentation on community organizing, Dean’s Wisline, University of Wisconsin-Extension, 2015.
Member, Advisory Committee, Applied and Community-Based Research Program Advisory Committee, Fleming College, Canada, 2012-14.
Discussant, Special Session. Making Research Relevant: Payoffs and Pitfalls of Presenting Sociology to Its Publics. American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2014.
Member, Board of Trustees, Sociological Initiatives Foundation, 2002-2014.
Panelist, “Street Smarts: Producing Knowledge for Social Change.” Association for Humanist Sociology annual meeting, Arlington VA, 2013.
Member, Steering Committee, Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement, Carleton University, Canada, 2012-2013.
In-service training facilitator, UW-Extension Waukesha County, 2008-2013.
Member, University of Wisconsin-Extension Scholarship Action Team, 2011-2012.
Co-facilitator, with UW-Extension Waukesha County, neighborhood identity project, 2011-2012
Panelist, "What is the Place of Applied Rural Sociology in a Changing World?" Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting, 2012.
Member, Environmental Protection Agency Sustainable Chesapeake review panel, 2012.
Member, National Science Foundation Arctic Studies review panel, 2012
Discussion facilitator, community-higher education partnerships, Nashville area faculty, Nashville, TN, 2011.
Discussion facilitator, community-higher education partnerships, Center for Rural Community and Economic Development, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI, 2011.
Panelist, session on Effective use of Service Learning for Promotion and Tenure, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI, 2011.
Team member, Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service, support for UW-Extension and UW-Colleges community engagement collaboration in Sauk, Sheboygan, and Barron counties, 2010-2011.
Session co-organizer and panelist, "Crossing Program Barriers: A Team Approach to Delivering Urban Extension Outreach." University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension State Conference, 2010.
Session co-organizer and panelist, "Expanding Possibilities for County–Specialist Collaborations." University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension State Conference, 2010.
Presenter, "From Social Capital to Social Change." University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension gathering on Contribution of Youth Engagement to the Development of Social Capital, Madison, WI, 2010.
Presenter, "Engaging the Community to Develop Sustainably." With Jerry Hembd. University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension Center for Community and Economic Development Wisline Web training, 2010.
External Advisor, University of Notre Dame Center for Social Concerns, 2010.
Grant proposal reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2010.
Facilitator, "University Staff Engagement Professionals: The Superheroes of the Outreach World." National Outreach Scholarship Conference. Athens, GA, 2009.
Panelist, "Community Engagement Journals: An Editor's Panel." National Outreach Scholarship Conference. Athens, GA, 2009.
Session organizer and facilitator, "Contradictions in Service Learning and Community-Based Research." American Sociological Society annual meetings, San Francisco, CA, 2009.
Session co-organizer (with John Green), "Community-Based Research: Documenting and Learning from Project Outcomes." Rural Sociological Society annual meetings, Madison, WI, 2009.
Session moderator and panelist, CUPP Conference, Brighton, UK, 2009.
Planning committee member, UW Colleges service learning workshop, 2009.
Interviewer, video, "Community-Academic Partnerships: What Communities Want," http://videos.med.wisc.edu/videoInfo.php?videoid=7203
Planning committee member, Community-Campus Knowledge Exchange, Madison, WI, 2009.
Discussion facilitator, "Community-Based Research." UW-Marathon County, 2009.
Panelist, "Community-Based Research." Edgewood College, Madison, WI, 2009.
Planning committee member, Urban Extension Conference, 2008-2009.
Journal reviewer for more than two dozen journals and book proposal reviewer for numerous university presses.