Dr. David Hartmann
Teaching
I regularly teach graduate courses in survey methods,
statistics, and computer applications. Other courses I have
taught, and hope to return to, are qualitative methods,
evaluation methods, and urban sociology. While I enjoy and
value classroom centered learning, faculty-student
interaction on research projects remains the central
learning model in graduate education. As a research center
director, I am fortunate to have worked with graduate and
undergraduate students on innumerable research projects over
the past fifteen years. Part of my teaching agenda is to
continue to find opportunities for these professional
experiences.
Research Interests
My research includes a long interest in urban morphology and
in contextual effects in models of residential location and
economic change. Other research includes deviance and
recidivism among substance abusing adults, gambling
behavior, mathematical modeling of peer influence,
educational reform centered on stable and equitable
desegregation, response rate changes and survey methods, and
clinical and pedagogical models of effective managed care.
Finally, I recently renewed a research interest in
information technology with a project assessing efforts to
integrate IT into teacher preparation. Most of these
research interests are pursued through funded research
projects which include co-investigators from other of the
social, behavioral, and health sciences.
These research interests also led to work as a consultant
and expert witness on administrative reorganization and
racial equity issues for plaintiff groups and for
municipalities, urban authorities such as police forces and
school districts, and not-for-profit organizations.