Welcome to my home page. This page is designed to give you an idea of who I am -- both professionally and personally. Explore the links on this page and you will discover some of my interests in and outside of Fielding.

If you are a HOD student, please take a look at the knowledge areas in which I asess. I would be happy to talk more with you about assessment guidelines. 

To contact me, please send me an email at kmelville@fielding.edu.

Research & Professional Interests

• Public Deliberation as an essential activity in public life
• Social Marketing: Using Applied Social Research to change attitudes and behavior
• Applied Social Research
• Adult Development: How Adults re-script and re-energize their lives for the "Third Quarter"

• Communes in the Counter Culture (New York: Wm. Morrow)
• Marriage and Family Today (five editions: Random House and McGraw-Hill)
• Issue Books prepared for the National Issues Forums (39 magazine-length issues on major public issues) author, or editor-in-chief
• Work in progress: Public Deliberation and Public Life

• Public Agenda OnLine
• Kettering Foundation

• HOD 712 Public Policy
• HOD 713 Social Change
• HOD 716 Global Studies
• HOD 706 Social Psychology
• HOD 714 Family, Community, Human Service Delivery