Sociology

Teaching

• Soc 316 - Methods II: Quantitative Analysis
• Soc 360 - Population Trends and Policy
• Soc 475/575 - Rural Sociology
• Soc 482/582 - Rural Community
• Soc 516 - Conducting Social Research

Research Interests

• Ecological Demography
• Rural Sociology 
• Migration 
• Housing

Current Projects

• Seasonal Homes and the Perceptions of Landscape and Social Change in Rural Wisconsin and Norway. 
• The Influence of amenities and proximate population concentrations on population and economic growth in the rural United States.
• Development of Landscape Fire Mitigation Strategies in Response to Increasing Human Development. 
• Analyzing the Wildland-Urban Interface Across the U.S. 1940-2030.

Curriculum Vitae

Brief Vita

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. - Sociology, University of Wisconsin, 2001
• M.A. - Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, 1997 
• M.R.P. - City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, 1987 
• B.A. - History/Political Science, Rocky Mountain College, 1985

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Syphard, Alexandra D., Susan I. Stewart, Jason McKeefry, Roger B. Hammer, Jeremy Fried, Sherry Holcomb, Volker C. Radeloff. In Press. “Assessing housing growth when census boundaries change.” International Journal of Geographic Information Science.
• Hammer, Roger B. 2008. “Recreation and rural development in Norway: Nature versus culture.” Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism 8(2):1-16.
• Lepczyk, Christopher A., Curtis H. Flather, Volker C. Radeloff, Anna M. Pidgeon, Roger B. Hammer, and Jianguo Liu. 2008. “Human impacts on regional avian diversity and abundance.” Conservation Biology 22(2):405–416.
• Pidgeon, Anna M., Volker C. Radeloff, Curt H. Flather, Christopher A. Lepczyk, Murray K. Clayton, Todd Jerome Hawbaker, and Roger B. Hammer. 2007. “The association of forest bird species richness with housing density and landscape patterns across the United States.” Ecological Applications 17(7):1989-2010.
• Gonzalez-Abraham, Charlotte E., Volker C. Radeloff, Todd J. Hawbaker, Roger B. Hammer, Susan I. Stewart, and Murray K. Clayton. 2007. “Patterns of Houses and Habitat Loss from 1937 to 1999 in northern Wisconsin, USA.” Ecological Applications 17(7):2011-2023.
• Lepczyk, Cristopher. A., Roger B. Hammer, Susan I. Stewart, and Volker C. Radeloff. 2007. “Spatiotemporal dynamics of housing growth hotspots in the North Central U.S. from 1940-2000.” Landscape Ecology 22(6):939–952.
• Hammer, Roger B., Volker C. Radeloff, Jeremy S. Fried, and Susan I. Stewart. 2007. “Wildland-urban interface housing growth during the 1990s in California, Oregon, and Washington.” International Journal of Wildland Fire 16(3):255-265.
• Syphard, Alexandra D., Volker C. Radeloff, Jon E. Keeley, Todd J. Hawbaker, Murray K. Clayton, Susan I. Stewart, and Roger B. Hammer. 2007. “Human influence on California Fire Regimes.” Ecological Applications 17(5):1388–1402.
• Stewart, Susan I., Volker C. Radeloff, and Roger B. Hammer. 2007. “Defining the Wildland Urban Interface.” Journal of Forestry 105(4):201-207.
• Carpenter , Stephen R., Barbara J. Benson, Reinette Biggs, Jonathan W. Chipman, Jonathan, A. Foley, Shaun A. Golding, Roger B. Hammer, Paul C. Hanson, Pieter T.J. Johnson, Amy M. Kamarainen, Timothy K. Kratz, Richard C. Lathrop, Katherine D. McMahon, Bill Provencher, James A. Rusak, Christopher T. Solomon, Emily H. Stanley, Monica G. Turner, M. Jake Vander Zanden, Chin-Hsien Wu, Hengliang Yuan. 2007. “Understanding regional change: Comparison of two lake districts.” Bioscience 57(4):323-335.
• Gonzalez-Abraham, Charlotte, E., Volker C. Radeloff, Roger B. Hammer, Todd J. Hawbaker, Susan I. Stewart, and Murray K. Clayton. 2007. “Building patterns and landscape fragmentation in northern Wisconsin, USA.” Landscape Ecology 22(2): 217-230.
• Van Auken, Paul M., Roger B. Hammer, Paul R. Voss, and Daniel L. Veroff. 2006. “The American Community Survey in counties with ‘seasonal’ populations.” Population Research and Policy Review 25(3):275–292.
• Voss, Paul R., David D. Long, Roger B. Hammer and Samantha Friedman. 2006. “Child poverty rates in the U.S.: A Spatial Regression Approach.” Population Research and Policy Review 25(4):369-391.
• Hawbaker, Todd J., Volker C. Radeloff, Murray K. Clayton, Roger B. Hammer, and Charlotte E. Gonzalez-Abraham. 2006. “Road development, housing growth, and landscape fragmentation in Northern Wisconsin: 1937–1999.” Ecological Applications 16(3):1222–1237.
• Stedman, Richard C. and Roger B. Hammer. 2006. “Environmental perception in a rapidly growing, amenity-rich region: The effects of lakeshore development on perceived water quality in Vilas County, Wisconsin.” Society and Natural Resources 19(2):137-151.

CURRENT GRANTS

• Hammer, Roger B.Supplement to Growth in the Wildland Urban Interface and its implications for Wildland Fire Use.U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2008-2009.
• Hammer, Roger B., Susan I. Stewart, and Volker C. Radeloff,Refining Wildland/Urban Interface Mapping.U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station, 2008-2013.
• Hammer, Roger B., Susan I. Stewart, Volker C. Radeloff, Todd J. HawbakerExploring the Feasibility of Assessing the Impact of Smoke from Wildland Fire on Human Populations.U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station, 2008-2013.
• Pigeon, Anna, M., Volker C. Radeloff, Curt H. Flather, J.G. Masek, Roger B. Hammer, Murray K. Clayton, and Susan I. Stewart.Effects of fire, extreme weather, and anthropogenic disturbance on avian biodiversity in the United States.NASA IDS program, 2007-2009.
• Hammer, Roger B.Assessment of residential land use in the U.S. from 1940 to 2030.U.S. Forest Service North Central Research Station, 2006-2011.
• Hammer, Roger B.Fire risk and WUI in Northern Wisconsin.U.S. Forest Service North Central Research Station, 2006-2011.
• Hammer, Roger B.Growth in the Wildland Urban Interface and its implications for Wildland Fire Use.U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2006-2008.
• Hammer, Roger B. and Jeff Kline.Evaluating forest and range land development in the western U.S.U.S. Forest Service Western Environmental Threat Assessment Center, 2006-2011.
• Radeloff, Volker, C., and Roger B. Hammer.Understanding the relationship between housing growth and exotic plant invasions.U.S. Forest Service North Central Research Station, 2006-2011.

HONORS & AWARDS

• 2005. Nominated for Outstanding Research Contribution to the U.S. Department of Interior/U.S. Department of Agriculture National Fire Plan (with Volker C. Radeloff, and Susan I. Stewart).
• 2000. The E. Walter Terrie Award for the outstanding paper in Applied Demography The Southern Demographic Association (First Author with Paul R. Voss, Robin M. Blakely, and Daniel L. Veroff).
• 1999. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Dissertation Fellowship.
• 1987. American Institute of Certified Planners Award (Cornell University).