Research assistantships are available through the Center for Research Military Organizations. The military sociology program is also associated with the multidisciplinary Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM). Our location in the Washington area enables us to maintain continuing relationships with the U.S. Institute for Peace, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, the Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. These relationships provide opportunities for graduate student support, for participation in ongoing research programs, and for access to data for seminar papers, theses, and dissertations.

Our expanding research program has attracted increasing numbers of graduate students to College Park. Most of them have been civilians. However, many military officers have come to the University of Maryland for graduate degrees with the support of the armed forces of the United States and allied nations, and have gone on to become senior personnel managers in their respective forces or to teach at service academies. Civilian alumni have gone on to positions in university teaching and administration or to research organizations. Our alumni have been important contributors to the sociological literature on armed forces and society.