Dr. Karl Hamner, Ph.D.

Dr. Hamner currently serves the Director of the Office of Evaluation Research and School Improvement for The University of Alabama College of Education. He also serves on the UA Council for Community-Based Partnerships and is Co-Chair of the West Alabama Veteran Action Board. Dr. Hamner has been an education, social science and health researcher, program development and evaluation consultant, and training specialist for federal, state, county and community-based agencies. He has extensive experience in research and program evaluation, as well as conducting professional development workshops and trainings on a wide range of topics, including over 50 grant writing workshops. Throughout his career, he has written or directed the development of numerous successful grant proposals for both small and very large grants. He has received funding from federal, state and local agencies, including the Department of Defense, the Department of Veteran Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, the Health Resources and Services Administration, Housing and Urban Development, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration; as well as a wide array of private and corporate foundations, including The California Endowment, The David & Lucille Packard Foundation, The Mott Foundation, and The Alcoa Foundation. His Ph.D. in Sociology is from the University of California, Los Angeles.

1993	Ph.D. Sociology	University of California, Los Angeles
1989	M.A. Sociology	University of California, Los Angeles
1986	B.A. Sociology	University of California, Los Angeles

2017 - Present	Clinical Associate Professor, Director	The Office of Evaluation and School Improvement,  The University of Alabama College of Education
2010 - 2017	Assistant Dean of Scholarly Affairs	The University of Alabama Capstone College of Nursing & Assistant Dean for Research,  The University of Alabama School Of Social Work
2007 - 2010	Director of Scholarly Affairs	The University of Alabama Capstone College of Nursing
1999 - 2011	President	KMH Consulting, Inc.
2000 - 2004	Contract Instructor	University of California, Los Angeles
2003	Contract Instructor	University of Southern California
1997 - 1999	Director, Evaluation Research	Sociometrics Corporation
1993 - 1997	Research Associate	Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, Vanderbilt University
1993 - 1996	Post-Doctoral Fellow, National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Training Program in Children’s Mental Health Services	Center for Mental Health Policy, Vanderbilt University

 

Program Design and Evaluation; Program and Policy Evaluation; Evaluation Capacity Building; School Improvement; Community-based Youth Development and Health Promotion; Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Development and Evaluation; Qualitative and Quantitative Methodology; Applied Health and Social Service Research;
Inter-group Attitudes and Conflict; Children’s Mental Health Services; HIV/AIDS Prevention; Military to Civilian Transitions; Social Identity Theory.

2011	Instructor, Research Methods for Social Work Practice, University of Alabama (SW 576- 001)
2003	Instructor, Health Promotion Program Design and Evaluation, University of Southern California
2000 - 2004	Instructor, Interpersonal Conflict, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
2000 - 2004	Instructor, Sociological Research Methods & Interpersonal Conflict, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

 

2016 – Present	CO-CHAIR, West Alabama Veteran Action Board
2016 – 2018	CO-CHAIR, Education Committee of the Alabama Veterans Network (AlaVetNet)
2013 – 2016	MEMBER, Alabama Veterans Network (AlaVetNet)
2009 – 2017	VICE-PRESIDENT, Holt Community Partnership (HCP)
2012 – 2017	VICE-CHAIR, Health Action Partnership of Walker County (HAP-WC)
2010 – 2013	CO-FOUNDER AND MEMBER, Walker Area Transformational Coalition for Health (WATCH)
2007 – 2010	MEMBER AND SECRETARY, Capstone Rural Health Center (CRHC) Board of Directors

 

2016 – Present	MEMBER, CIMVHR College of Peer Reviewers
2016 – 2017	MEMBER, the School of Social Work Administrative Team
2010 – 2017	MEMBER, the School of Social Work Executive Team
2008 – Present	CO-CHAIR, UA-VA Research Liaison Group
2015 – 2017	MEMBER, the Council for Community-Based Partnerships Faculty Teaching and Research Support Committee
2007 – Present	MEMBER, the University of Alabama Council for Community-Based Partnerships
2007 – 2017	MEMBER, the University of Alabama Assistant/Associate Deans of Research Committee
2007 – 2015	MEMBER, Capstone College of Nursing Administrative Support Team
2007 – 2015	MEMBER, Capstone College of Nursing Organizational Performance and Strategic Planning Committee
2013 – 2015	CO-CHAIR, Deans and Directors for Research Special Interest Group, the Society for Social Work Research
2014 – 2015	MEMBER, SACS Public/Community Service Compliance Certification Committee
2014 – 2015	MEMBER, the University of Alabama Carnegie Classification for Curricular and Community Engagement Renewal Team
2011 – 2012	MEMBER, the University of Alabama Carnegie Classification for Curricular and Community Engagement Team
2010 – 2014	CHAIR, Capstone College of Nursing Organizational Performance and Strategic Planning Committee
2010 – 2014	MEMBER, Deans and Directors for Research Special Interest Group, the Society for Social Work Research
2008 – 2012	MEMBER, the University of Alabama Technology Research Advisory Committee

 

• American Evaluation Association
  

2015	Certificate of Appreciation, Department of Veterans Affairs
2015	Award of Recognition for contribution to the renewal of the University of Alabama’s Carnegie Classification for Curricular and Community Engagement
2013	Distinguished Achievement in Engagement Scholarship- Faculty/Staff; University of Alabama Center for Community-Based Partnerships
2010	Excellence in Community Health Center Board Leadership; Alabama Primary Care Association
2010	Outstanding Community Partner-Initiated Engagement Effort (jointly awarded to Paul Kennedy, President, the Walker Area Community Foundation); University of Alabama Center for Community-Based Partnerships
1992	City of West Hollywood Dissertation Award

 

• Albright, D. L., McCormick, W. H., Carroll, T. D., Currier, J. M., Thomas, K. H., Hamner, K., Slagel, B. A., Womack, B., Simms, B. M., & Deiss, J. (2017)
  Barriers and resources for veterans’ post-military transitioning in South Alabama: A qualitative analysis. Traumatology.
  
• Hendricks Thomas, K., Albright, D., Shields, M., Kaufman, E., Michaud, C., Plummer Taylor, S., Hamner, K. (2016). Predictors of depression diagnoses
  and symptoms in United States female veterans: Results from a national survey and implications for programming. Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health
• Thomas, K.H., Taylor, S.P., Hamner, K., Glazer, J. Kaufman, E. (2015). Multi-site Programming Offered to Promote Resilience in Military Veterans: A
  Process Evaluation of the Just Roll With It Bootcamps. Californian Journal of Health Promotion, 13 (2), 15-24.
•  Davis, L. L., Kertesz, S. G., Mahaney-Price, A. F., Martin, M. Y., Tabb, K. D., Pettey, K. M., McNeal, S. F., Granstaff, U. S., Hamner, K. M., Powell, M. P.,
  Hilgeman, M. M., Snow, A. L., Stanton, M., Litaker, M., Mary T. Hawn, M. T., (2011). Alabama Veterans Rural Health Initiative: A Preliminary Evaluation of
  Unmet Health Care Needs. Journal of Rural Social Sciences. 26 (3), 14–31
• Hamner, K. M., Kennedy, P. W. & Wolfe, T. A. (2008). Forming a rural health partnership. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 1(1), 85-86.
  
• Robin, L., & Hamner, K. M. (2000). Bisexuality: Identities and community. In V. A. Wall &  N. J. Evans (Eds.) Toward acceptance: Sexual orientation issues on campus (pp. 245-259). Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc.
  
• Bickman, L., & Hamner, K. M. (1998). Evaluating a Holocaust Museum. Evaluation Review, 22 (4), 435-446
• Bickman, L., Salzer, S., Lambert, E. W., Saunders, R., Summerfelt, W. T., Heflinger, C. A., & Hamner, K. M. (1998). Rejoinder to Mordock’s critique of the Fort Bragg Evaluation Project: The sample is generalizable and the outcomes are clear. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 29 (1), pp. 77-91.
  
• Hamner, K. M., & Bryant, D. (1997). Does client severity predict case management activity? Evaluation and Program Planning, 20 (3), 259-267.
  
• Hamner, K. M., Lambert, E. W., & Bickman, L. (1997). Children’s mental health in a  continuum of care: Clinical outcomes at 18 months for the Fort Bragg Demonstration. Journal of Mental Health Administration, 24 (4), 664-670.
  
• Boyd, E. A., Berk, R. A., & Hamner, K. M. (1996) Motivated by hatred or prejudice: Categorization of hate-motivated crimes in two police divisions. Law and Society Review, 30, 819-850
• Heflinger, C. A., Nixon, C. T., & Hamner, K. M. (1996). Handling confidentiality and  disclosure in the evaluation of client outcomes in managed mental health services for children and adolescents.  Evaluation and Program Planning, 19, 175-182.

1. Hamner, K. M. (1992). Gay bashing: A Social Identity analysis of violence against lesbians and gay men. In G. M. Herek & K. T. Berrill (Eds.) Hate crimes: Confronting violence against lesbians and gay men, pp. 179-190. Newbury Park, CA: Sage
   
2. Berk, R. A., Boyd, E. A., & Hamner, K. M. (1992). Thinking more clearly about hate motivated crimes. In G. M. Herek & K. T. Berrill (Eds.) Hate crimes: Confronting violence against lesbians and gay men, pp. 123-143. Newbury Park, CA: Sage

1. Feinstein, N., Card, J. J., Shields, J. P., Benner, T., & Hamner, K. M. (2001). Case Studies in Effective HIV Prevention: 18 Behavioral Prevention Programs Selected for the HIV/AIDS Prevention Program Archive. Los Altos, CA: Sociometrics Corporation.

• Thomas, K.H., Albright, D.L., Hamner, K., & Shields, M.M. (Jan 2017) Predictors of depression diagnoses and symptoms in female veterans: Results from a national survey and implications for programming. Annual Conference for the Society for Social Work and Research, New Orleans, LA (poster presentation).
  
  
• Hamner, K.M. (2016). “From In-Group to Out-Group MCT and Optimal Distinctiveness.” Panel presentation in “Theory, Veteran Identity and Well-Being in Military-Civilian Transition: What do we know and what can we do?” Working Group 5, Leads: Dr. Jim Thompson, Medical Advisor, Research Directorate, Veterans Affairs Canada & Wendy Lockhart, Senior Policy Officer, Research Directorate, Veterans Affairs Canada; Forum 2016, the 7th Annual Canadian Military and Veteran Health Forum. Vancouver, Canada.
  
  
• Albright, D. L., Currier, J. & Hamner, K.M. (2016) “Post-Service Identity: The Role of Moral Injury on the Military to Civilian Transition.” Oral presentation; Forum 2016, the 7th Annual Canadian Military and Veteran Health Forum. Vancouver, Canada.
  
  
• Hamner, K.M, Albright, D.L., Thomas, K., Pryce, J., Davis, L. (2015). “Leading by Convening: Advancing Transition Research via a Translational Summit.” Oral presentation; The 6th Annual Canadian Military and Veteran Health Forum. Quebec City, Canada.
  
  
• Albright, D. L., & Hamner, K.M. (2015). Beyond “thank you for your service”: Improving community context for MCT. Military to Civilian Transition Summit, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
  
  
• Huebner, R. & Hamner, K.M. (2014). “Putting the “I” Back in Team: IPE Strategies for Students, Faculty, and Rural Social Work Practice.” Oral presentation p; 39th Annual National Institute for Social Work and Human Services in Rural Areas. Silver City, New Mexico, July 2014.
  
  
• Hamner, K.M., Kennedy, P., Jones, F., Judd, A. & Johnson, G. (2012) “Sustaining Community- Academic Partnerships for Health.” Panel Presentation; National Outreach Scholarship Conference. Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
  
  
• Wilson, E., Dixon. C., Thomas, A., Watkins, J., Houser, R., Hamner, K.M., Shaw, C.L., & Reamy, R., (2012). “From the Ground Up: The Evolution of a Partnership.” Panel Presentation; National Outreach Scholarship Conference. Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
  
  
• Hamner, K.M., Kennedy, P., Goetz, D. & Wells, H.M. (2010). “Reciprocal Community-Academic Partnerships for Health: Lessons from WATCH 2010.” Panel presentation; Gulf-South Summit on Service Learning and Civic Engagement through Higher Education; Athens, Georgia.
  
  
• Hamner, K.M. (2010). “Innovation to promote nursing research.” Oral presentation; The Research Leaders Network, American Association of Colleges of Nursing Graduate Education Conference; Captiva Island, Florida.
  
  
• Snow, A.L., Allen, R., Richmond, D. & Hamner, K.M. (2010). “Linking research and practice in long- term care.” Panel presentation, Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care: A Statewide Summit; Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
  
  
• Hamner, K.M., Dunkin, J., Witt, B.S., Hankins, J., & Majors, S. (2008). “Nurses responding to rural health needs: Meeting the needs of the future through community-academic partnerships.” Chair, Panel presentation, , Ninth Annual Rural Health Conference; Tuscaloosa, Alabama; September 2008.
  
  
• Hamner, K.M., Patton, M.Q., Saxe, L., Scriven, S. & Bickman, L. (1998). “Increasing the utilization of evaluation findings to transform society: What is the role of the evaluator?” Chair, Panel presentation, with Michael Quinn Patton, Leonard Saxe, Michael Scriven, and Leonard Bickman, American Evaluation Association annual meeting, November 1998.
  
  
• Hamner, K.M. (1998). “Confronting common problems in evaluation research: The power of the sociological perspective.” Paper presentation, Annual Pacific Sociological Association meeting, April 1998.

Funder/Title	Amount	Role	Date
Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation; Operation Deep Dive Subcontract	$1,552,773	Lead PI	2017-2021
State of Alabama Department of Education, School Improvement Grants – Evaluation	$1,310,801	Evaluator	2017-2021
National Science Foundation; Building a Pathway for CS Principles Teachers:  A Two-course Sequence for Secondary Education Mathematics Pre-service Teachers	$299,903	PI
University of Alabama at Birmingham; Jefferson County Juvenile Drug Court Assessment	$35,000	Evaluator	2017-2018
Gadsden City Schools; 21st Century Learning Centers	$14,500	Evaluator	2017-2018

 

Funder/Title	Amount	Role	Date
Alabama Department of Public Health; Alabama FITWAY Colorectal Cancer Prevention Program	$193,564	Evaluator	2015-2017
University of Alabama at Birmingham; Jefferson County Juvenile Drug Court and Family  Drug Court Assessments	$99,960	Evaluator	2015-2017
Gadsden City Schools and Selma City Schools; 21st Century Learning Centers	$22,000	Evaluator	2016-2017
Community Foundation of South Alabama; South Alabama Veterans Needs Assessment	$33,619	PI	2015-2016
National Institute of Child and Human Development; Service Member to Civilian: Transitions, Mental Health. Families and Education (NIH 1 R13 HD080421-01)	$25,000	PI	2014-2016
Alabama Department of Mental Health Developmental Disabilities; Alabama Project LAUNCH	$150,000	Evaluator	2014-2016
Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs;  Alabama Broadband Initiative Monitoring and Evaluation Framework Development	$249,999	Senior Personnel	2012-2014
Missouri Hospital Association; Custom Grant Writing Workshop	$2,700	Instructor	2014
Greenleaf Medical Center; Grant Proposal Writing and Development	$20,000	PI	2011
Fitzgibbon Hospital; Grant Proposal Writing and Development	$20,000	PI	2010
Missouri Hospital Association; Custom Grant Writing Workshop	$2,700	Instructor	2010
Walker Baptist Medical Center; Professional Facilitation; WATCH 2010	$7,500	Facilitator	2009
Alameda County Office of Education; Grant Writing Training and Professional  Development	$12,853	PI	2008-2009
MidMichigan Innovation Center; Grant Proposal Writing and Development	$5,000	PI	2007
University of Maryland; Baltimore County Custom Grant Writing Workshop	$6,000	Instructor	2007
The California Endowment; Centinela Youth Service Bullying Prevention Program Evaluation	$25,000	Evaluator	2006
DeKalb County School System; DeKalb County School System’s  Theme and Magnet School Evaluation	$5,000	Evaluator	2005
The San Diego Foundation & The California Endowment; Project ESSEA Evaluation	$35,000	Evaluator	2002-2005
The California Endowment; The Northern California Center on Deafness Parent Links  Program Evaluation	$24,000	Evaluator	2002-2004
Roanoke Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative Evaluation	$40,000	Evaluator	1998-2004
Tulare County, CA; Tulare Youth Services Bureau Building Bridges Program Evaluation	$25,500	Evaluator	2001-2003
The California Endowment & Private Donor; Tariq Khamisa Foundation Violence Intervention Forum Feasibility Study	$140,552	PI	2001-2002
The State of California & The California Endowment; People’s Choice Program Evaluation and Organizational Development	$33,500	Evaluator/PI	2000-2002
City of Los Angeles, CA; Community Employment Project’s Welfare to Work Program Evaluation	$50,000	Evaluator	2001
The California Endowment; Woodlake Family Resource Center Evaluation	$25,000	Evaluator	2000-2001
The California Endowment; Project New Hope Evaluation	$35,000	Evaluator	2000-2001
The California Endowment; The California Partnership for Children’s Plan To Lead Parent Advocacy Training Program Evaluation	$25,000	Evaluator	2000-2001
The California Endowment; Kaweah Delta Healthcare District Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Evaluation	$40,000	Evaluator	1999-2001
The State of California; Planned Parenthood’s Girl Talk Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Evaluation	$30,000	Evaluator	1998-2001
Kaweah Delta Healthcare District; Hispanic Cardiovascular Health Needs Assessment	$5,000	PI	1999
The David & Lucille Packard Foundation; Santa Clara County Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Network Evaluation	$880,000	Co- PI/Evaluator	1999
The State of Minnesota; The System-wide Analysis of Family Planning Services in Minnesota	$120,000	PI	1998-1999
The State of California; California Community Challenge Grant Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Evaluations	1997-1999	Evaluator	$106,150
Department of Defense; Client Severity and Case Management Activity in Children’s Mental Health Services	1996	Co-PI	$50,000

 

Grant	Date	Funder	$
Walker Area Transformational Coalition for Health Planning Grant, Don Goetz,  Project Director	2009	Health Resources and Services Administration	$86,000
Michigan Initiative for Innovation and Entrepreneurship	2008	The Mott Foundation	$80,000
The Icelandic Cultural Heritage Project; Jesse Byock, Ph.D., PI, UCLA	2007	The Alcoa Foundation	$250,000
Multiple Imputation for Longitudinal Data; Xiawei Yang, Ph.D., PI, UCLA	2002	National Institute of Drug Abuse	$99,700
Board and Organizational Development; People’s Choice, Inc.	2002	The California Endowment	$50,000
Transitional Housing for People Living with AIDS and Mental Illness;  Project New Hope	2001	Housing and Urban Development	$750,000
Supportive Services for People Living with AIDS and Mental Illness;  Project New Hope	2001	Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services  Administration	$450,000
Planning and Seed Money Grant; The California Partnership for Children	2001	The Friedman Family Foundation	$20,000
Plan 2 Lead Parent Advocacy Training Program; The California Partnership  for Children	2001	The California Endowment	$450,000

*Only grant proposals for which Dr. Hamner served as grant development lead and/or primary author or funded proposal. List does not include grant awards to the University of Alabama during Dr. Hamner’s time as a Director/Assistant Dean for Research.