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Professor Stephen L. Klineberg
Director, Urban Research Center of Houston
Department of Sociology, MS 28
Rice University
P. O. Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251-1892 Phone: 713-348-3484
Fax: 713-348-5296 Email: slk@rice.edu |
A graduate of Haverford College near Philadelphia, Professor Stephen L. Klineberg received an M.A. in Psychopathology from the University of Paris and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard. After teaching at Princeton, he joined Rice University’s Sociology Department in 1972.
In March 1982, he initiated the annual Houston Area Survey, a systematic series of telephone interviews with representative samples of Harris County residents. Supported by a consortium of local foundations, corporations, and individuals, the surveys have been expanded in recent years to include much larger numbers of Anglos, African-Americans, Hispanics, and Asians.
Professor Klineberg also serves as the founding Director of Rice University's new Urban Research Center of Houston. The mission of the URC is to provide a permanent home for the HAS, to stimulate other metropolitan research, and to develop innovative tools that will enhance public access to and use of the research findings, creating new directions for social change.
The recipient of ten major teaching awards at Rice, Klineberg has written numerous journal articles and publishes a continually updated series of reports on the survey findings. He is currently at work on a book that will cover the first 28 years of the Houston Area Survey, exploring through systematic survey research the way the general public is responding to the economic and demographic transformations of Houston and America.
Dr. Klineberg is available to speak at your conference or event. See some of the organizations to which Dr. Klineberg presented findings from the Houston Area Surveys.