Katherine Meyer Professor and Associate Provost
Sociology and Human and Community Resource Development
318 Bricker Hall
614.292.6619
meyer.23@osu.edu
Education
M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Sociology
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Sociology
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Social Relations, Johns Hopkins University
Teaching/Research
Dr. Meyer studies political participation and support for democracy in the Middle East. Currently, she is co-principal investigator on a three-year National Science Foundation Human and Social Dynamics grant for "Dissent/Repression Nexus in the Middle East" that includes sociologists and political scientists from four universities: Ohio, Kansas, Maryland and Trinity. Meyer's publications on political participation and democratic attitudes and practices have derived from survey data from longitudinal general social surveys of Kuwaiti citizens, the World Values surveys, survey of U.S. farm populations, and citizen surveys in South Korea.
Selected Publications
"Women's Rights in the Middle East: Longitudinal Study of Kuwait," with Mary Ann Tetreault and Helen Rizzo (International Political Sociology, 2009)
"Religion and Support for Democracy: A Cross-national Examination," with Daniel Tope and Anne Price (Sociological Spectrum, 2008)
"Religious Regulations: A New Typology For Cross-National Research," with Lauren Pinkus (International Journal of Sociology, 2008)
"Changed Political Attitudes in the Middle East Following Western Intervention: The Case of Kuwait," with Helen Rizzo and Yousef Ali (International Sociology, 2007)
"Extending Political Rights in the Middle East: The Case of Kuwait," with Helen Rizzo and Yousef Ali (Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 2007)
"The Relationship between Gender Equality and Democracy: A Comparison of Arab versus Non-Arab Muslim Societies," with Helen Rizzo and Hamid Abdelatif (Sociology, 2007)
"Religion and Democratic Support: Evidence from the World Values Survey," with Daniel Tope (Democracy and Society, 2005)
"Changing Sources of Support for Women's Political Rights: Focus on the Middle East," with Helen Rizzo and Yousef Ali (International Social Science Journal, 2005)
"Culture and Geography as Background to Political Processes," in Democracy and Globalization, ed. by Charles Niemann (Kent State University Press, 2004)
Lay Ministers and Their Spiritual Practices, with James D. Davidson, Thomas P. Walters, Bede Cisco, and Charles Zech (OSV Press, 2003)
"Changes in Religious and Political Views Among Kuwaiti Citizens," with Yousef Ali, Helen Rizzo and Dorrit Ram (Journal of Human and Social Sciences, 2003)
"Women's Political Rights: Islam, Status and Networks in Kuwait," with Helen Rizzo, Katherine Meyer and Yousef Ali (Sociology, 2002; abstracted in Sociological Abstracts, 2006)
American Catholics: Gender, Generation and Commitment, with William D’Antonio, James Davidson, and Dean Hoge (Rowman-Littlefield, 2001)
"Islam, Women's Organizations and Political Rights for Women," with Helen Rizzo and Yousef Ali, in Religion and Social Policy for the 21st Century, ed. by Paula Nesbitt (Rowman-Littlefield, 2001)
"Social and Political and Psychological Changes in Kuwait: An Aftermath of the Gulf War," with Yousef Ali (Arab Journal of the Humanities, 2000)
Beyond the Amber Waves of Grain: An Examination of Economic and Social Restructuring in the Heartland, with Paul Lasley, Larry Leistritz, and Linda Lobao (Westview Press, 1995)
Conflict and Change in the Catholic Church, with John Seidler (Rutgers University Press, 1989)
Honors, Awards, and Service
President, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (2008-11)
National Science Foundation grant for "Collaborative Research on the Dissent/Repression Nexus in the Middle East," with J. Craig Jenkins (2005-09)
National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Grant, "Measuring Rentier Status in the Middle East," with J. Craig Jenkins (2007-09)
National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Grant, "Palestinian Immigration and Emigration in the Middle East During the 1990s," with J. Craig Jenkins (2007-09)
National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Grant, "Organizational Networks in the Middle East," with J. Craig Jenkins (2007-09)
National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Grant, "Summer Study and Research on Dissent and Repression," with J. Craig Jenkins (2007-09)
Panel member, National Science Foundation/Swedish Institute World Values Survey Workshop (2008)
National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Grant, "Palestinian Immigration and Emigration in the Middle East During the 1990s," with J. Craig Jenkins (2007-08)
Council, Association for the Sociology of Religion (2005-08)
National Science Foundation grant for "Understanding Global Tensions: The Middle East," with Richard Herrmann (2004-06)
National Science Foundation grant for "Political Views of Middle East Citizens Following Western Military Intervention" (2003-04)
Mershon Project
Rentierism and Conflict in the Middle East (2009-10)
Dissent/Repression Nexus in the Middle East (2005-08)
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