Ph.D. in US history, State University of New York at Binghamton in 1981.

Professor Klejment teaches all of her courses as diversity courses.  This includes Modern America in Global Perspective (HIST 114); African American History in a Global Perspective (HIST 116), History of Women in the US (HIST 368), The History of the Catholic Church in the United States ( HIST 366), The United States and Vietnam (HIST 372), and occasionally offers research seminars on the Sixties.  Her training is in US social history and her research has focused on social and religious issues, including the freedom movement of the sixties and the spirituality and activism of Thea Bowman, FSPA.  Other interests include the history of slave life and slavery, the influence of the black freedom movement on other movements of liberation, and the black freedom movement in the North.  Klejment has published books and articles on nonviolent activists including Dorothy Day and Cesar Chavez.  She recently completed biographical articles on legislator Mee Moua and author and humanitarian Le Ly Hayslip.