Assistant Professor in the Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality at the University of Virginia
About
Dr. Meyer is an assistant professor in the Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality at the University of Virginia (UVA). He graduated from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), with a PhD in sociology and interdisciplinary studies certificates in women’s studies and lesbian/gay/queer studies.
Current Work:
Dr. Meyer’s research focuses on the race, class, and gender dynamics of violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people. His book, Violence against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination, published with Rutgers University Press in 2015, offers the first investigation of anti-queer violence that focuses on the role played by race, class, and gender.
His future research plans include a second book project on gay, bisexual, and queer men’s experiences of sexual assault and a content analysis project on media representations of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida.
Violence against Queer People was awarded the 2016 Stonewall Honor Book Award from the American Library Association; it was also named one of the “best of the best” in 2016 from the Association of University Presses, as one of the ten best books published in 2015 for public libraries.
He has published in multiple scholarly journals, including Gender & Society; Sociology; Critical Criminology; Journal of Homosexuality; and Sexuality Research and Social Policy.
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