1923
Dr. Klausner is born in Brooklyn, New York to Edward and Bertha Klausner.
1943
Dr. Klausner becomes a Second Lieutenant and an Air Navigator in the United States Army Air Corps (now United States Army Air Forces).
1947
Dr. Klausner receives a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from New York University.
1951
Dr. Klausner receives a Master of Arts from psychology from Columbia University and serves as a lecturer of education at the City College of New York.
1952
Dr. Klausner receives a Doctor of Education in psychology from the Teacher’s College at Columbia University and serves as an instructor of psychology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.
1957
Dr. Klausner becomes a lecturer of sociology at Columbia University.
1961
Dr. Klausner becomes a lecturer of religion and psychiatry at the Union Theological Seminary.
1963
Dr. Klausner receives a Doctor of Philosophy in sociology from Columbia University.
1967
Dr. Klausner becomes an associate professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
1969
Dr. Klausner is appointed chairman of the Social Science Section of the American Academy of Religion.
1970
Dr. Klausner is promoted to full professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
1971
Dr. Klausner is appointed director of the Center for Research on the Acts of Man.
1971
Dr. Klausner authors “On Man in His Environment” and “Religion in the United States.”
1977
Dr. Klausner is appointed chairman for undergraduate studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
1982
Dr. Klausner authors “Eskimo Capitalists: Oil, Politics and Alcohol.”
1983
Dr. Klausner is appointed chairman of the Graduate Group in Sociology.
1989
Dr. Klausner authors “Succeeding in Corporate America: The Experience of Jewish MBAs.”
1991
Dr. Klausner receives the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry.
1996
Dr. Klausner retires and is named Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.
1998
Dr. Klausner is listed in the Encyclopedia of Religion and Society.