Academic Papers, Drafts, Book Reviews

I’m not a professor or anything but I do delight in academic pursuits, in the academic setting, and have longstanding interests in China, the Middle East, and ancient Greece.

For reviews on North African topics at African Studies Quarterly, associated with the University of Florida: go to https://journals.flvc.org/ASQ/index . Search under “Meyer,” or “Kenneth Meyer.” Various reviews should come up. How I came to be reviewing at this journal is an odd story, perhaps I’ll explain in a forthcoming news item.
Drafts of papers, one item given at a conference, and some of the above reviews are available at: www.academia.edu , a very useful site for anyone writing on academic topics. If you are a publishing university faculty member or a person doing graduate work, you put your items here and look around to find and interact with other specialists in areas of interest to you. Have a look at https://wwu.academia.edu/KennethMeyer . Warning: there are several other Meyers on this site (it’s a common surname). Or look up “Diplomacy Zimri-Lim.”
For anyone who is completely crazy or has a particular interest in Mongols in the Middle East, Islamic Extremism, Islamic fundamentalism, Medieval Islam, or some combination of those, my recent M.A. thesis (August 2023), “Ibn Taymiyya on the Frontier,” is not available in book form but is on the CEDAR system at Western Washington University. Go here: https://cedar.wwu.edu . Two chapters from the thesis are also on www.academia.edu (see above).

4. Attended:

SUNY @ Stony Brook, B.A. (phi beta kappa, w/ high honors)

Washington University in St. Louis, M.A. Chinese Language & Literature

Western Washington University, M.A. History, thesis: “Ibn Tamiyya on the Frontier”

3. For anyone who is completely crazy or has a particular interest in Mongols in the Middle East, Islamic Extremism, Islamic fundamentalism, Medieval Islam, or some combination of those, my recent M.A. thesis (August 2023), “Ibn Taymiyya on the Frontier,” is not available in book form but is on the CEDAR system at Western Washington University. Go here: https://cedar.wwu.edu . Two chapters from the thesis are also on www.academia.edu (see above).