Kristen A. Myers
Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Sociology
Northern Illinois University

DeKalb, Illinois 60116

kmyers@niu.edu
(815) 753-6431

EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy (Sociology) North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC     1996

Dissertation title: “Sailing Under False Colors: Race, Class and Gender in a Women's Organization” directed by Barbara Risman.

Certificate in Women's Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC                              1995

Master of Arts (Sociology) The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA   1990

Thesis title: "A Dialectical Analysis of Role Enactment During the Post-Disaster Period" directed by Gary Kreps.

Bachelor of Arts (Sociology and Political Science) Meredith College, Raleigh, NC   1989
 

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University.                        2001-present

Faculty Associate, Department of Women's Studies, Northern Illinois University.                 1996-2007
Under the administration of Amy Levin, Director of Women's Studies.

Faculty Associate, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Studies, NIU                             April 2007-present

PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Co-Coordinator of LGBT Studies, Northern Illinois University                                             August 2009-present

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University            May 2006-May 2009

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University                          1996-2001

Visiting Instructor, Department of Sociology, North Carolina State University                      1993-1996

PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
Myers, Kristen. 2005. Racetalk: Racism Hiding in Plain Sight.  New York: Rowman and Littlefield.

Kreps, Gary A. And Susan Lovegren Bosworth with Jennifer A. Mooney, Stephen T. Russell, and Kristen A. Myers. 1994. Organizing, Role Enactment, and Disaster. Newark: University of Delaware Press.

Refereed Journal Articles
Myers, Kristen and Laura Raymond.  Forthcoming.  "Elementary School Girls and Heteronormativity: The Girl Project."  Gender & Society.

Myers, Kristen; Kay Forest; and Susan Miller. 2004. "Officer Friendly and the Tough Cop: Gays and Lesbians Navigate Homophobia and Policing." Journal of Homosexuality. 47:17-37.

Myers, Kristen. 2004. "Ladies First: Race, Class, and the Contradictions of a Powerful Femininity" Sociological Spectrum 24 (1): 11-41.

McCorkel, Jill; and Kristen Myers. 2003. "What Difference Does Difference Make? Position and Privilege in the Field." Qualitative Sociology 26 (2) 199-231.

Myers, Kristen and Passion Williamson. 2001. "Race Talk: The Perpetuation of Racism Through Private Discourse." Race & Society 4:3-26.

Myers, Kristen. 2001. "The Paradoxes of Anti-Racist Work: The Impact of Standpoint on Strategy." Humanity and Society 25 (2):131-152.

Myers, Kristen. 1998. "Allegiances, Coups and Color Wars: A Strategy for Breaking the Silence on Race Issues in the Classroom." Transformations 9:183-195.

Risman, Barbara and Kristen Myers. 1997. "As the Twig is Bent: Children Reared in Feminist Households." Journal of Qualitative Sociology, 20:229-252.

Anderson, Cynthia; Kristen Myers; and Jammie Price. 1995. "Graduate Students and the Reproduction of Feminist Theory." Journal of Creative Social Discourse 1: 30-41.

Leiter, Jeffrey; Kristen Myers; and Matthew Zingraff. 1994. "Substantiated and Unsubstantiated Reports of Child Maltreatment: Do Their Consequences Differ?" Social Work Research and Abstracts 18:67-82.

Zingraff, Matthew; Jeffrey Leiter; Matthew Johnsen; and Kristen Myers. 1994. "The Mediating Effect of Good School Performance on the Maltreatment-Delinquency Relationship." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 31: 62-91.

Zingraff, Matthew; Jeffrey Leiter; Kristen Myers; and Matthew Johnsen. 1993. "An Analysis of the Child Maltreatment-Youthful Problem Behavior Relationship." Criminology 31: 173-202.

Book Chapters
Myers, Kristen. 2003. "White Fright: Reproducing White Supremacy Through Casual Discourse." In White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism, Woody Doane and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, eds. New York: Routledge.

Myers, Kristen. 1999. "Racial Unity in the Grass Roots? A Case Study of a Women's Social Service Organization." In Still Lifting, Still Climbing: African American Women's Contemporary Activism, Kimberly Springer, ed. New York: New York University Press.

Edited Books
Myers, Kristen; Cynthia Anderson; and Barbara Risman, eds. 1998. Feminist Foundations: Toward Transforming Sociology. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Book Reviews
Myers, Kristen. 1999. Review of Drucilla Cornell's At the Heart of Freedom: Feminism, Sex, & Equality. In Gender & Society, 13 (6): 817-818.

Myers, Kristen. 1999. Review of Yannick St. Jean and Joe R. Feagin's Double Burden: Black Women and Everyday Racism. In Contemporary Sociology, 28 (1): 44-45.

Myers, Kristen. 1995. Review of Tuula Gordon's Single Women: On the Margins? In Social Forces 73: 1185-86.

Papers Presented at Recent Professional Meetings
Myers, Kristen and Laura Raymond.  2009.  "Doing Girl: Elementary School Girls Idealizing Heteronormativity."  Paper to be presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems meetings, San Francisco, CA

Myers, Kristen.  2009.  "Hotties, Crushes and Dating: Elementary School Girls Idealize Heteronormativity."  Presented at SWS Winter meetings, Savannah, GA.

Myers, Kristen.  2007.  "Exotica."  Paper presented at the Association of Black Sociologists meetings, New York, NY.  August.

Moremen, Robin and Kristen Myers.  2006.  “Taking a Seat in Their Theater: The Importance of Lens in Understanding the Experiences of Women in the Military.”  Paper submitted to ASA, Montreal.

Myers, Kristen.  2004.   “Blackness of Our Contemporary Lexis: Racetalk and the Reformation of Old Tropes”  Association of Black Sociologists, San Francisco, 2004

Myers, Kristen. 2003. "When inquiry confronts identity: Action research and race." Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, LA.

McCorkel, Jill and Kristen Myers. 2002. "What Difference Does Difference Make? Power, Standpoint, and the Implications of Cross-Racial Research." American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL.

Myers, Kristen. 2000. "Attacking the Iron Cage from Within: Race, Class, Gender, and the Paradoxes of Anti-Racist Work." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association meetings, Washington, D.C.

McCorkel, Jill and Kristen Myers. 2000. "Reconsidering Feminist Scholarship: Co-opted of Closeted Within the Academy?" Paper presented at the Southern Sociological Society meetings, New Orleans, LA.

Miller, Kirk and Kristen Myers. 2000. "Are All Hate Crimes Created Equal?" Paper presented at the Southern Sociological Society meetings, New Orleans, LA.

GRANTS
Myers, Kristen, Primary Investigator.  2009.  "NIU LGBT Studies Center."  Grant proposal submitted to NIU CLAS for Federal Directed Funding– Federal Fiscal Year 2011.  Amount requested: $145,000.  Under review.

Myers, Kristen, Primary Investigator. 2003-06 "Needs Assessment of Juvenile Justice Programs in Lee County, IL." Jack King, co-investigator. $12,600 grant awarded by Lee Country Juvenile Justice Council.

WORKS IN PROGRESS
Myers, Kristen.  2008.  "Exotica: Reifying Intersecting Binaries" under review at Sexualities.

Myers, Kristen.  2008.  "Building the Road Home: Trajectory Improvisation and the Quagmire of Katrina."  Under review at Sociological Spectrum.

“Feminine Identity in a Post-Modern Military.” with Robin Moremen, to be submitted to Feminist Studies. 

HONORS

2009    Elected, Deputy Treasurer, Sociologists for Women in Society, national organization

2007    Recipient of a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgendered "Ally" Award, Center for LGBT Studies, NIU

2004        Recipient of the NIU University Excellence in Teaching Award

2002- 2004 College (Liberal Arts and Sciences) Nominee for the NIU University Excellence in Teaching Award

2004    Article, “Ladies First,” nominated for the 2004 Sociological Spectrum Best Paper Award.

2004  Article, “What Difference Does Difference Make?” nominated for the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award for the Race, Gender and Class section of the ASA.

 RECENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES
2010            Organizer for Culture and Inequality sessions, ASA, August, Atlanta, GA

2010-2011    Deputy treasurer of Sociologists for Women in Society (national position, elected)

2009-2010   Chair of Recruitment, Department of Sociology, NIU

2009-present  Faculty advisor for a Northern Illinois local chapter of Sociologists for Women in Society

June 2009     Qualitative data analyst and contributing author to the NIU Baccalaureate Committee Reports

2007-2008    Member of the Joseph Harry Scholarship Committee

2006-2009    Director of Graduate Studies

2006-2007 Book Review Editor, Journal of Political and Military Sociology

2006-2007 Chair, Recruitment Committee, department of Sociology, NIU

2004-2005 Chair, Assessment Committee, department of sociology, NIU

2002-2005 Member of NIU Scholarship Committee

2000-2002, 2003-2005  Member of departmental council, department of sociology, NIU

2002- 2004 Chair, Curriculum committee, department of sociology, NIU

2004  Organizer for the Gender sessions, ASA San Francisco

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES DEVELOPED
Social Problems                                    Race and Ethnicity
Sociology of Gender                             Social Inequality
Qualitative Sociological Inquiry             Foundations in Sociology
Sociology of Work

GRADUATE COURSES DEVELOPED
Sociology of Knowledge                     LGBT Studies Core Course
Feminist Research Methods                Gender & Sexualities