CRHL - Creighton Hall/Administration Building - 428B
Eric Russell Meyer, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dr. Eric Meyer researches topics of criminal justice as public health issues, sexual offending and victimization policies, and the use of art to affect social change. His doctoral dissertation was an ethnography within the Nebraska Correctional Youth Facility where he explored the therapeutic climate among and between staff members and inmates. In 2019, Dr. Meyer earned a PhD at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health, Department of Health Promotion and Social Behavioral Health. Dr. Meyer is a former police officer with nearly 20 years of experience between two metropolitan law enforcement agencies. Dr. Meyer earned his MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and a MA in Liberal Arts from the University of Chicago.