Curriculum Vitae

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"

1985: MA, Sociology, University of Minnesota.

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).

2005-present:  Associate Professor, Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin and Research Associate, Center for Community and Economic Development.

2000-2005: Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology (also Research Associate, Urban Affairs Center), University of Toledo.

1994-2000: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology (also Research Associate, Urban Affairs Center), University of Toledo.

1988-1994: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology (also Research Associate, Urban Affairs Center, 1988-1991 and 1993), University of Toledo.

1986-1988: Instructor, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota.

Ph.D. advisor, Dadit Hidayat, University of Wisconsin.

Ph.D. advisor, Janina Mera, University of Wisconsin.

Ph.D. advisor, Catherine Willis, University of Wisconsin.

Ph.D. and M.A. advisor, Charity Schmidt, University of Wisconsin.

Ph.D. committee member, Liliana Cisneros, University of Wisconsin.

Ph.D. committee member, Kym Leggett, University of Wisconsin.

Ph.D. committee member, April Sansom, University of Wisconsin.

Ph.D. committee member, Julie Petrokubi, University of Wisconsin.

Ph.D. Mentor Faculty, Individualized Learning Agreement, Sarah Hippensteel, Antioch University Ph.D. in Leadership and Social Change.

Ph.D. proposal examiner, Andy Williamson, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

M.S. committee member, Cynthia Lin, University of Wisconsin.

M.S. committee member, Ariel Kaufman, University of Wisconsin.

M.S. committee member, Andrea Van Gunst, University of Wisconsin, completed 2008.

M.S. committee member, Blair Golland Skinner, University of Wisconsin, completed 2007.

Ph.D. committee member, Lisa Heaton, University of Wisconsin, completed 2007.

MS committee member, Kristy SeBlonka, University of Wisconsin, completed 2007.

Ph.D. committee member, Damayanti Bannerjee, University of Wisconsin, completed 2006.

M.S. Thesis committee member, Molly Young, University of Wisconsin, completed 2006.

Ph.D. Thesis examiner, Andrew Wenn, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia, completed 2005.

Ph.D. committee member, Agnes Caldwell, Wayne State University, completed 2001.

Stoecker, Randy (ed.). 1997-2006. "Papers." COMM-ORG: The On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development. http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers.htm

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 in Higher Education:  Methods, Models and Practice.  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.

Stoecker, Randy, Amy Hilgendorf and Elizabeth Tryon. "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.

Tryon, Elizabeth, Randy Stoecker,  Amy Martin, Kristy SeBlonka, Amy Hilgendorf and Margaret Nellis.  forthcoming. "The Challenge of Short-Term Service Learning." Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning.

Stoecker, Randy.  forthcoming.  "Challenging Institutional Barriers to Community-Based Research." Action Research.

Stoecker, Randy.  forthcoming.  "Community Organizing." Encyclopedia of Urban Studies by Robert Hutchinson (ed.).  Thousand Oaks:  Sage.

Stoecker, Randy.  forthcoming.  "Community Development." Encyclopedia of Urban Studies by Robert Hutchinson (ed.).  Thousand Oaks:  Sage.

Stoecker, Randy.  forthcoming.  "Saul Alinsky."  Encyclopedia of Urban Studies by Robert Hutchinson (ed.).  Thousand Oaks:  Sage.

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.  2007.  "The Data and Research Practices and Needs of Non-Profit Organizations."  Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 34:97-119.

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.  http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/183/129

Stillman, Larry, and Randy Stoecker.  2005. "Structuration, ICTs, and Community Work."  Journal of Community Informatics, Vol. 1, no. 3, 2005. http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/216/175

Stoecker, Randy.  2003. "Understanding the Development-Organizing Dialectic." Journal of Urban Affairs, 25: 493-512.

Stoecker, Randy.  2003. "Choices in Community-Higher Education Collaborations." PLA Notes 48:42-46.

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.  "Cyberspace vs. Face to face: Community Organizing in the New Millennium."  2002.  Perspectives on Global Development and Technology. 1:143-164.

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. 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).

Stoecker, Randy. 1998. "Capital Against Community." Research in Community Sociology, Vol. 8, ed. Dan Chekki. Greenwich, CT: JAI 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.

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.)

Stoecker, Randy.  forthcoming.  "Ethics of Community Informatics Research and Practice."  In Doug Shuler (ed.) Liberating Voices:  A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution.  Boston:  MIT Press.

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.  2005.  "The Last Line of Defense."  Shelterforce, Issue 143, September/October, http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/143/lastdefense.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.  2005. "The Foundation of Community Information Technology: Community-Based Research."  Community Technology Review. Spring-Summer.  http://www.comtechreview.org/spring-summer-2005/000311.html

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.  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. "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. 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. 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.  1998.  "Can Sociologists Change the World?"  In Toward a Second Dimension:  A Sociology Reader, ed. Patrick and Linda Pertusatti. 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., Building Community: Social Science in Action. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.

Morrissey, Marietta, and Randy Stoecker (joint authorship). 1994. "Marxist Theory and the Oppression of Women." In Marxist Sociology: Surveys of Contemporary Theory and Research, ed. Patrick McGuire and Donald McQuarie. New York: General Hall.

Stoecker, Randy.  forthcoming.  Review of Visions of Development:  Faith-Based Initiatives, ed. Wendy Tyndale.  Community Development Journal.

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.  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. "Community Control Without Tears. Review of Organizing for Community Controlled Development," by Patricia Watkins Murphy and James V. Cunningham. Shelterforce, No. 130.

Stoecker, Randy. 2003. Review of: Between Eminence and Notoriety:  Four Decades of Radical Urban Planning, by Chester Hartman.  Journal of Planning Literature, 17:392-393.

Stoecker, Randy. 2002. Review of: Civic Innovation in America: Community Empowerment, Public Policy, and the Movement for Civic Renewal, by Carmen Sirianni and Lewis Friedland. Contemporary Sociology, 31:171-173.  With response and rebuttal.

Stoecker, Randy. 2001. Review of: Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development, by Adam S. Weinberg, David N. Pellow, and Allan Schnaiberg.  Contemporary Sociology 31:53-54.

RECENT COMMISSIONED RESEARCH REPORTS

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.

Stoecker, Randy.  2006.  "Participant Reflections on the Quad Counties Summer VISTA Program." Prepared for University of Wisconsin Extension Quad Counties staff.

Stoecker, Randy.  2006. "Learning from Each Other: Report to the Grassroots Leadership College." Prepared for the Grassroots Leadership College, Madison, Wisconsin.

Stoecker, Randy, with Sue Wuest and Gregg Rice. 2005. “The State of Hispanics/Latino/as in Lucas County and its Surrounds.” Prepared for the Hispanic/Latino Strategic Alliance of Greater Toledo.

Stoecker, Randy. 2005. “A Neighborhood Data System for Toledo: A Demonstration Project and Best Practices Analysis.” Prepared for the University of Toledo Urban Affairs Center.

Stoecker, Randy. 2004. “’Are We Making a Change?’ The Data and Research Needs of Toledo Area Non-Profit Organizations.” Prepared for the University of Toledo Urban Affairs Center.

Stoecker, Randy. 2004. “The Power of Relationships: Northwest Ohio Community Shares.” Prepared for the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.

Stillman, Larry, and Randy Stoecker. 2004. “Empowerment for the West: Project Report.” Prepared for Monash University, Melbourne Australia, and the Melbourne western region neighbourhood houses.

Edited book manuscript, with Elizabeth Tryon, The Unheard Voices: Community Organizations and Service Learning, under contract with Temple University Press.

Article, with Emily Stern and Pamela Hathaway, "Managing Service-learners through a Student Intermediary and a Project-Based Service-learning Model," under review with the Michigan Review of Community Service Learning.

Article, "Rethinking Public Sociology," under review with The American Sociologist.

Article, "Are We Walking the Talk of Community-Based Research?" under review with Action Research.

Creation of data set using proposals from Sociological Initiatives Foundation to conduct analysis on how proposal authors define community-based research.

Assessment of what works and what doesn't in service learning for Madison community organizations (http://comm-org.wisc.edu/sl). 

Study of nonprofit organization access to service learning across the State of Wisconsin.

Evaluation research on State of Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services Model Communities project.

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.

2007-2008.  Project to develop a multi-ethnic community organizing process in Cedar Riverside of Minneapolis.  Funded by West Bank Community Development Corporation, through Bush Foundation, $11,700.

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:  Creation of interactive website on Public Sociology (http://pubsoc.wisc.edu) for American Sociological Association. Funded by anonymous donor through Loyola University of Chicago, $5,000.

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.

2004-5:  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.

2007.  American Democracy Project, North Central Regional Conference "Most Sustainable Project" award for service learning assessment model.

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.

INVITED ADDRESSES

"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. http://comm-org.wisc.edu/drafts/haliburton.htm

Stoecker, Randy. Savior, Servant, or Scallywag:  Ethical Challenges of Community Engagement.  Trent University Ashley Fellowship lecture, Peterborough, Ontario, 2006. http://comm-org.wisc.edu/scallywag.htm

"Why Don't We do More Participatory Research."  Keynote address delivered to the The First, CSU Conference on Community-Based Teaching and Research: Creating Knowledge and Building Community. Cal Poly, Pomona.  2006. http://comm-org.wisc.edu/drafts/pr.htm

Stoecker, Randy. "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.  http://comm-org.wisc.edu/drafts/creative.htm 

"Toward a People's Technology."  Keynote address delivered to the "Community and Information Technology: the Big Questions" search conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. 2002 http://www.ccnr.net/searchconf/stoecker.htm

"Community-University Collaborations:  Future Choices."  Keynote address delivered to the The University of Texas El Paso Center for Civic Engagement's 4^th Annual Retreat, 2002.http://comm-org.wisc.edu/drafts/cbrutep2.htm

"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. http://comm-org.wisc.edu/drafts/cbrqs.htm

"Power or Programs? Two Paths to Community Development." Keynote address delivered to the International Association for Community Development Conference, Rotorua, New Zealand, 2001. http://comm-org.wisc.edu/drafts/twopathsb.htm

The "Dot-Orging" of Community:  Community Change, Development, and the Internet, http://www.computertelevision.com.au/casoc/speakers/default.htm (video) or http://comm-org.wisc.edu/drafts/dotorg2.htm (text). Keynote address, Creating and Sustaining On-Line Communities 2000 conference, Mandurah, Western Australia, Australia, 2000. http://www.casoc2000.com.au/

"The Titanic, Pizza Delivery, Community Development, and the Internet" http://sasweb.wisc.edu/drafts/titanic.html. Keynote address, Third Communities Networking/Networking Communities Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 1998. http://home.vicnet.net.au/~vacab/callpap1.htm

Conference co-organizer and facilitator, "For Community's Sake:  Maximizing the Community Impact of Service Learning."  Baraboo, WI, 2008.

Conference co-organizer and facilitator, "Building Wisconsin's Leadership Programs."  Green Bay, WI, 2008.

Participatory Research Training Facilitator, Community Development Academy, University of Missouri Extension, 1998, 1999, 2001-2008.

Workshop facilitator, "Improve your Meeting Management Skills,"  South Madison Planning Council, Madison, WI, 2008.

Community Organizing Training Workshop series facilitator, University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension, Waukesha, WI, 2007-2008.

Planning workshop facilitator, "World Universities Network" PAR Outcomes Project," Paris, France, 2007.

Workshop facilitator, "Meaningful, Useful, Painless Evaluation: Tips, Tools and Techniques," U-Links, Minden, Ontario, Canada, 2007.

Workshop facilitator, "Meaningful, Useful, Painless Evaluation: Tips, Tools and Techniques," Trent Centre for Community-Based Education, Peterborough Ontario, Canada, 2007.

Workshop facilitator, "Developing Successful University-Community Partnerships,"  Wisconsin Partnership Program, Madison, WI, 2007.

Workshop facilitator (with Michael Martin and Marianne Morton),   "Market Analysis/Needs Assessment,"A Home for Everyone 2007, affordable housing conference, Baraboo, Wisconsin, 2007.

Workshop facilitator, "Conflict and Consensus Methods in Community Organizing," The Change Agency, Melbourne, Australia, 2007.

Workshop facilitator, "Conflict and Consensus Methods in Community Organizing," The Change Agency, Brisbane, Australia, 2007.

Workshop facilitator, "Next Steps: Where Do We Go From Here?"  Morgridge Center for Public Service 10th Anniversary Celebration, Madison, Wisconsin, 2007.

Workshop facilitator, "Community Research 101," Grassroots Leadership College, Madison, Wisconsin, 2007.

Workshop facilitator, "Moving from Service Learning to Community-Based Research." Morgridge Center for Public Service  Madison, Wisconsin, 2006.

Conference facilitator, 3rd International Community Informatics Conference, Prato, Italy, 2006.

Workshop facilitator, "Choosing the Organizing Model That Fits your Situation." City of Madison 2006 Neighborhood Conference, 2006.

Workshop facilitator, "Community Organizing Basics."  East Isthmus Neighborhood Planning Committee, Madison, Wisconsin, 2006.

Workshop facilitator (with Michael Martin and Marc Smith), "Juggling the Numbers."  A Home for Everyone, 2006 affordable housing conference, Green Bay, Wisconsin, 2006.

Workshop facilitator, "Using Research to Support Community Change Projects." Wisconsin Community Leadership Conference, 2006.

Workshop facilitator (with Jose Calderon), "Community Based Participatory Research." The First, CSU Conference on Community-Based Teaching and Research: Creating Knowledge and Building Community. Cal Poly, Pomona, 2006.

Workshop facilitator, "Working with Nonprofits," University of Wisconsin Extension CNRED Eastern District inservice, 2005.

Workshop facilitator, “Community-University Relationships,” Trent Center for Community Based Education, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, 2005.

Workshop Facilitator, "Community Development Action Research Lab," University of Wisconsin Extension CNRED Central District inservice, 2005.

Workshop Facilitator, "A Social Change Model for Participatory Research," CU Expo, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 2005.

Workshop Facilitator, "Speaking Freely to Your Partner," CU Expo, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 2005.

Workshop Facilitator, "Who Participates in Participatory Research," CU Expo, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 2005.

Co-organizer and facilitator, Community-Based Research Planning Workshop, American Sociological Association annual meetings, San Francisco, 2004.

Facilitator, Community-Based Participatory Research Training Workshop, Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center, Alamosa Colorado, 2004.

Organizer and facilitator, Career Workshop: Opportunities and Pitfalls in Community Action Research, American Sociological Association annual meetings, 2003.

Facilitator, Just Connections' First Annual Conference for Community and Scholar Activists in Community-Based Education in Appalachia, Emory & Henry College, Emory, Virginia, 2003.

Co-organizer and facilitator, "Neighbors:  The Mortar of Our Community" conference sponsored by Neighborhoods Resource Center, Nashville, Tennessee, 2003.

Organizer and facilitator, national community-based research network planning conference, Philadelphia, 2003.

Workshop facilitator, "Introduction to Community Organising," RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 2002.

Workshop facilitator, "Cyberspace vs. Face to Face:  Community Organising in the New Millenium," RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 2002.

Workshop facilitator, Midwest Sociological Society annual meetings, "How to do Social Action:  Action Based Research in the Classroom."  Milwaukee, WI, 2002.

Workshop facilitator, Bonner Foundation Learn and Serve program member institutions gathering, February 2001, Philadelphia.

Workshop facilitator, Community-Based Research Network of University of Denver and affiliated universities, 2001.

Workshop facilitator, Community-Based Research Network of Trenton Center and affiliated universities, 2001.

Workshop facilitator, "Action Research:  In Theory and Practice," with Dave Beckwith and Alice Herscovitch. Summer Program of the Institute in Management and Community Development, Concordia University, Montreal, 2000.

Workshop facilitator, "Participatory Action Research," Midwest Sociological Society annual meetings, 2000.

Planning workshop facilitator, "Setting Sociological Agendas for the Century of the Minority Majority," Midwest Sociological Society annual meetings, 2000.

Workshop facilitator, "Can You Get a Degree Doing Activist Research?" Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts, Syracuse University, 1999.

Workshop facilitator,  "Opportunities and Pitfalls in Community Action Research" American Sociological Association annual meetings, 1999.

Workshop facilitator, "Community-Based Research as a Tool for Organizing." Loka Institute Community-Based Research and Strategies for Change Conference. 1999.

Workshop facilitator, Development Training Institute "IMPACT Initiative" with Indianapolis community development corporations. 1999.

State of Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services Model Communities project, 2006-2007.

University of Wisconsin Quad Counties summer VISTA program, 2006.

Grassroots Leadership College, Madison, WI. 2005-2006.

Lagrange Development Corporation Weed and Seed program.  Toledo, OH. 2002-2003.

Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation Learn and Serve Community Research Program, 2000-2003.

Needmor Fund/Toledo Community Foundation joint community organizing training program, Toledo, OH. 1998-2000.

ACORN Grassroots School Improvement Campaign, Chicago. 1998-1999.

Policy Research Action Group, (Loyola University, University of Illinois-Chicago, DePaul University, Chicago State University), 1995-1997.

STRATEGIC PLANNING FACILITATION

Rainbow Books, Madison, WI, 2008.

Friends of Troy Gardens, Madison, WI, 2008.

Wisconsin Pathways to Independence Universal Design Advisory Committee, 2008.

Dania Partners, Minneapolis, MN, 2007.

Wisconsin Arthritis Action Council, 2007.

East Isthmus Neighborhood Planning Council, Madison, WI,  2007.

Friends of Troy Gardens, Madison, WI,  2007.

Northwest Wisconsin Regional Food Network, 2006.

Grassroots Leadership College, Madison, WI,  2006.

West Bank Community Development Corporation, Minneapolis, MN, 2002.

Tryon, Elizabeth, and Randy Stoecker.  "Organizing Community Control over Campus Partnerships"  CU Expo.  Victoria, BC, Canada, 2008.

Barr, Todd, Heather Reid, and Randy Stoecker. "Community-Academic Equity in Service Learning: The TCCBE/U-Links Approach." CU Expo.  Victoria, BC, Canada, 2008.

Stoecker, Randy.  "Walking the Talk."  Midwest Sociological Society annual meetings.  St. Louis, MO, 2008.

Stoecker, Randy, Elizabeth Tryon, and Charity Schmidt.  "Organizing Community Control over Service Learning."  Great Northwoods Service Learning Conference.  Wausau, WI, 2007.

Stoecker, Randy, Elizabeth Tryon, and Amy Hilgendorf.  "Organizing Community Control over Service Learning."  Outreach Scholarship Conference 2007.  Madison, WI, 2007.

Tryon, Elizabeth, and Randy Stoecker.  "Community Reactions to Service Learning."  3rd Living Knowledge Conference, Paris, France, 2007.

Stoecker, Randy.  "Are We Walking the Talk of Community-Based Research?"  American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, New York, 2007.

Tryon, Elizabeth, and Randy Stoecker.  "How Community Groups React to Student Engagement" Just Connections Third Biennial Conference, Ferrum, Virginia, 2007.

Stoecker, Randy, Elizabeth Tryon, and Margaret Nellis.   "Enhancing Service Learning from the Community Organization's Perspective."  Teaching and Learning Symposium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 2007.

Stoecker, Randy, and Andrew Dane.  "Developing Leadership in Context."  Leadership Coordinator's Conference,  Wisconsin Dells, WI, 2007.

Stoecker, Randy, Charity Schmidt, and Elizabeth Tryon. "Transforming Spaces of Unequal Power Between University and Community." American Democracy Project North Central Regional Conference, River Falls, WI, 2007.

Stoecker, Randy, Elizabeth Tryon, Margaret Nellis, and Amy Hilgendorf.  "The Community's Perspective on Service Learning."  State Superintendent’s Institute on Service-Learning and Citizenship, Middleton, WI  2007.

Stoecker, Randy, Marie Sandy, and Margaret Nellis.  "Who is Served by Service Learning? The Community Organization's Perspective."  American Association of Colleges and Universities annual meeting, New Orleans, 2007.

Stoecker, Randy, Margaret Nellis and Elizabeth Tryon.  "The Community Perspective on Service Learning."  State Superintendent’s Institute on
Service-Learning and Citizenship, Madison, WI, 2007.

Stoecker, Randy, and Larry Stillman.  "Who Leads, Who Remembers, Who Speaks?" 3rd International Community Informatics Conference, Prato, Italy, 2006.

Stoecker, Randy.  "Building the Data and Research Capacity of Community-Based Nonprofits."  NACDEP annual conference, San Antonio, 2006.

Stoecker, Randy. “Strengthening Community and University Skills in Community-Based Research,” U-Links, Haliburton, Ontario, Canada, 2005.

Stoecker, Randy.  "Are We Making a Change:  The Data and Research Needs of Toledo Area Non-Profit Organizations."  American Sociological Society Annual Meetings, Philadelphia.  2005.

Stoecker, Randy.  “Moving from Academic-Initiated Projects to Community Controlled Outcomes.”  Just Connections Second Biennial Conference, Maryville Tennessee, 2005.

Stoecker, Randy.  "Challenges of Academic-Initiated Research Partnerships."  Midwest Sociological Society annual meetings, Minneapolis, 2005.

Stillman, Larry, and Randy Stoecker.  "Structuration, ICTs, and Community Work."  Community Informatics Research Network 2004 Conference. Prato, Italy, 2004.

Stoecker, Randy.  "Is Community Informatics Good for Communities? Questions Confronting an Emerging Field"  Networking Communities Forum, Victoria University and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.  2004. 

Stoecker, Randy, and Tim Mungavan.  "Beyond Housing as Usual:  Alternatives for Community Development.  Urban Affairs Association annual meetings, Washington, DC.  2004.

Stoecker, Randy.  "Community-Based Participatory Research: Challenges and Opportunities."  Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center and the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, University of Colorado-Denver. 2004.

Stoecker, Randy.  "Community-Higher Education Collaboration:  Current Practices and Future Choices."  Presented at the Workshop on Teaching and Learning Participation in Higher Education, Institute for Development Studies, Brighton, UK, 2002.

Stoecker, Randy.  "Community Information Technology:  Three Paths in Search of a Process." Presented at the Center for Community Networking Research, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 2002. 

Stoecker, Randy.  "Crossing the Development-Organizing Divide: The Toledo Community Organizing Training and Technical Assistance Program." Presented at the American Sociological Society annual meetings, Chicago, 2002.

Stoecker, Randy. "Community-University Collaborations:  Future Choices." Presented to the The College of New Jersey, Workshop on Community-Engaged Learning, 2002.

Stoecker, Randy. Community-University Collaborations:  Future Choices." Presented to the Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation Summer Leadership Institute, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC, 2002.

Stoecker, Randy.  " The Mystery of the Missing Social Capital and the Ghost of Social Structure:  Why Community Development Can't Win."  Presented at the American Sociological Society annual meetings, Los Angeles, 2001.

Stoecker, Randy, and Anna Vakil. "States, Culture, and Community Organizing: Two Tales of Two Neighborhoods." Presented at the Urban Affairs Association annual meetings. 2000.

Stoecker, Randy.  Cyberspace vs. Face-to-Face:  Community Organizing in the New Millenium.  Presented at the Syracuse Social Movement Initiative, Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 1999.

Stoecker, Randy.  Making Connections: Community Organizing, Empowerment Planning, and Participatory Research in Participatory Evaluation.   Presented at the Midwest Sociological Society annual meetings, 1999.

Stoecker, Randy.  The Internet as topic and Medium:  Teaching Sociology of the Internet.  Presented at the Midwest Sociological Society annual meetings, 1999.

Kleidman, Rob, and Randy Stoecker.  "Participatory Research on Community Organizing and Social Movements."  Presented at the American Sociological Association annual meetings, 1998.

Stoecker, Randy. "Are Academics Irrelevant? Roles for Scholars in Participatory Research." Presented at the American Sociological Association annual meetings, 1997 ( http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers98/pr.htm).

Stoecker, Randy, and Angela Stuber. Building an Information Superhighway of One's Own: A Comparison of Two Approaches. Presented at the Urban Affairs Association annual meetings, 1997. ( http://comm-org.wisc.edu/drafts/uunn/UAApaper.htm).

Editor/Moderator, COMM-ORG, the On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development http://comm-org.wisc.edu , 1996 to present.

Facilitator, leadership training, Leadership Washburn County, Spooner Wisconsin, 2006, 2007.

Facilitator, planning meeting for community informatics project, Victorian Council of Social Services and Melbourne University, Australia, 2007.

Facilitator, Wisconsin Rural Leadership Program, Tomahawk, Wisconsin, 2007.

Trainer, how to cut an issue, EINPC, Madison, Wisconsin, 2006.

Facilitator, planning meetings to develop community standards for service learning, Madison, Wisconsin, 2006.

Facilitator, GLC board planning retreat, Madison, Wisconsin, 2006.

Facilitator, Model Communities planning meetings, Richland Center and Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 2006.

Facilitator, Troy Gardens board planning meetings, Madison, Wisconsin, 2006.

Facilitator, Northwest Wisconsin Regional Food Network planning meeting, 2006.

Unpaid consultation, Mayor of Binghamton, on community-campus partnerships, 2006.

Facilitator, U-Links Management committee planning meeting, Minden, Ontario, Canada, 2006.

Facilitator, U-Links housing planning meeting, Minden, Ontario, Canada, 2006.

Unpaid consultation, Peterborough Community Housing Development Corporation, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, 2006.

Member, Model Communities Design Team, State of Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, 2006.

Member, evaluation committee, Grassroots Leadership College, Madison, Wisconsin.  2005-present.

Unpaid consultation, East Isthmus Neighborhood Planning Committee, Madison, Wisconsin, 2005-present. 

Unpaid consultation, South Metropolitan Planning Committee, Madison, Wisconsin, 2005-present.

Member, evaluation committee, Grassroots Leadership College, Madison, WI,  2005 to present.

Housing data analyst, Lagrange Development Corporation and Northriver Development Corporation.  Toledo, OH, 2005.

Trainer, Research Methods for Nonprofits series, Toledo Community Foundation Nonprofit Resource Center. Toledo, OH, 2005.

Board member, Lagrange Development Corporation, Toledo, Ohio, 2005.

Board member, Northwest Ohio Community Shares, Toledo, Ohio, 2004-2005.

Board member, Coalition to Access Technology and Networking (CATNet), Toledo, Ohio, 2003-2005.

West Bank Community Development Corporation, Minneapolis, strategic planning facilitation, 2004.

Sponsoring committee member, Toledo ACORN project, 2000-2003.

Advisor, Coalition to Access Technology and Networking in Toledo (CATNeT), Toledo, Ohio. 1996-2000.

Associate Editor, Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning, 2008-present.

Member, advisory board, Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement, 2007-present.

Session Organizer, "Participatory Action Research: Partnering for Social Change" Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meetings, St. Louis, 2008.

Session Organizer, "Community Organizing," American Sociological Association annual meetings, New York City, 2007.

Member, Specialist Relations Committee, University of Wisconsin Extension, 2006-2007.

Member, Bascom Hill Society Scholarship Committee, University of Wisconsin, 2006.

Consultation, Trent University Ethics Committee, 2006.

External Reviewer, California State University Dominguez Hills Department of Sociology, 2006.

University of Wisconsin Extension evaluation training facilitator, 2006.

Panelist, “Balance of Power and Participation in Community-University Partnerships,” CU Expo, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 2005.

Academic Caucus Facilitator, Just Connections Second Biennial Conference, Maryville Tennessee, 2005.

Session Organizer, "Troubleshooting Academic-Activist Partnerships."  Midwest Sociological Society annual meetings, Minneapolis, 2005.

Panelist, "Author Meets Critics."  Midwest Sociological Society annual meetings, Minneapolis, 2005.

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Community Informatics, 2004-present.

Member, Board of Directors, Community Informatics Research Network, 2004-present.

Member, Editorial Board, Contemporary Sociology, 2004-present.

Member, Task Force on Institutionalizing Public Sociology, 2004-present.

Panelist, "Public Sociology in Practice: Internationalizing American Sociology through Community Action Research ." American Sociological Association annual meetings, 2004.

Member, Board of Trustees, Sociological Initiatives Foundation, 2002-present.

Member, Task Force on Bridges to the Real World, American Sociological Association, 2003.

Panelist, Colloquy on "Global Decisions, Local Collisions." Urban Affairs Association annual meetings, 2003.

Member, Long Range Planning Committee, Midwest Sociological Society, 2002.

Session Organizer and Panelist, "New Developments in Community-Based Research." Campus Compact National Summit, Providence, RI, 2002.

Panelist, "Developing a Community Based Research Network:  Lessons from a National Demonstration." Urban Affairs Association annual meetings,  Boston, MA, 2002.

Didactic seminar leader, "Participatory Action Research Methods," American Sociological Association annual meetings, 2000.

Board member, Midwest Sociological Society, 1999-2001.

At-Large member of Board of Directors, Midwest Sociological Society, 1999-2000.

Journal referee for Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly , Sociological Imagination, Journal of Urban Affairs, Sociological Focus, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Sociological Forum, Social Science Quarterly, Sociological Perspectives , Critical Sociology, The Sociological Quarterly, Teaching Sociology, Humanity and Society, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Urban Affairs Review, Journal of Action Research,  Encyclopedia of Public Information Technology, Journal of the American Planning Association,

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