Dr. Hartman specializes in the problems of North American cities, especially issues related to poverty and ethnicity. In addition he has conducted research on religious revitalization among American Jewish women returning to Israel. He has also conducted field schools in Mexico in community development using both didactic and service learning methodologies. He is also interested in developing ways to encourage students to learn, using a hands-on approach; the techniques and methodologies used in anthropology. He has a special interest in helping studens become better social scientists by understanding the impact of field experiences on the shaping of their own lives and in helping to provide a social science perspective to non majors so that they can live their adult lives more effectively.  He has career grants of over $3 million.

Selected Consulting Projects

2005 Health and Human Service Departmental Assessment, Bowling Green Univeristy.

1991 Documentary film on public housing, Lamont Productions, Washington, DC

1991 Carthage College, Organizational Analysis of Administrative Structure, Kenosha, Wisconsin

1990 Southside Virginia Community College Outreach Program, Alberta, Virginia

1987 Cultural Resource Preservation. Goochland County Historical Society

1987 Documentary film, "Southwest Remembered: A Story of Urban Renewal", Lamont Productions, Washington, DC

Education

1975 Ph.D. Anthropology Wayne State University
1967 M.A. Anthropology Wichita State University
1965 B.A. Sociology/Anthropology Wichita State University

Selected Publications

"Policy Implications From the Study of the Homeless." Sociological Practice, Volume II, Number 2, July, 2000, pp. 57-76.

"Going Global With Service Learning." With Gail Rola. Metropolitan Universities, Volume 11, Number 1, Summer 2000, pp. 15-23.

"Global and Local Learning: The Benefits of International Service Learning." With Bill Roberts. Metropolitan Universities, Volume 11, Number 1, Summer 2000, pp. 7-13.

"Healthy Neighborhoods: A Collaborative Model." Journal of Public Service and Outreach, Volume 4, Number 1, Fall 2000, pp. 56-62.

"University/Community Partnership Building." Sustainable Community Review, Fall 2000, pp. 13-19.

"Religious Identity and Psychological Well-being Among Newly Orthodox Jewish Women." With Avraham Schwartzbaum and Maureen Hockenburger. Sociological Practice, Fall 1999, pp. 263-272.

"The Engaged University: Thinking About the New Millennium." Sustainable Community Review, Fall 1999, pp. 12-17.

"Teaching Across Boundaries: American Educators and Orthodox Women in Israel," with Betty Feir and Avraham Schwartzbaum. Clinical Sociology Review, 1997, pp. 112-134.

"Educational Policy and Training Implications of Social Science Research: Lessons from an Inner City Elementary School," with Nita Bryant and Dexter Taylor. Clinical Sociology Review, 12, 1994, pp. 206-221.

Selected Presentations

2005 Community Development Partnership Development, Visions of Poverty Conference, Mazamitla, Mexico.

2004 Measures of World Poverty, Visions of Poverty Conference, Mazamitla, Mexico.

2001 Organizer, with Bill Roberts, “Intended and Unintended Impacts of Community Based Learning Programs:  Issues, Problems, and Opportunities from Case Studies at Home and Abroad.”  Society for Applied Anthropology, Merida, Mexico.  

2001 Organizer and Discussant, with Stan Ingman, “Metropolitan Universities Conference, St. Louis, MO.

2001 Invited Workshop Presenter, “University and Community Collaborations,” Fixing America at the Grass Roots Level, 28^th Annual CDC Conference, Chatanooga, TN.