Name:	Randy Stoecker
Title:	Professor
Department:	Rural Sociology
Organization:	University of Wisconsin
Phone:	(608) 890-0764
Fax:	(608) 262-6022
Email:	rstoecker [a] wisc.edu
Address:	350 Agricultural Hall 1450 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706

Brief Biography:
Randy Stoecker is a Professor in the Department of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, with a joint appointment in the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Minnesota, and an M.S. in Counseling from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He moderates/edits COMM-ORG: The On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development (http://comm-org.wisc.edu), and conducts trainings and speaks frequently on community organizing and development, community-based participatory research/evaluation, and community information technology. He has led numerous participatory action research projects and empowerment evaluation processes with community development corporations, community organizing groups, community information technology programs, and other non-profits in North America and Australia. Randy has written extensively on community organizing and development and community-based research, including the books Defending Community (Temple University Press, 1994), Research Methods for Community Change (Sage Publications, 2005) and the co-authored book Community-Based Research in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass, 2003), and is leading a major research project on community reactions to service learning (http://comm-org.wisc.edu/sl). You can find his complete vita at http://comm-org.wisc.edu/stoeckerfolio/stoeckvita.htm.

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