VITAE: David Ralph Meyer · Ph.D. 1970 University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Dissertation: “Spatial Variation of Black Urban Households” (Geography) M.S. 1967 Southern Illinois

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VITAE: David Ralph Meyer

l. EMPLOYMENT

Professor of Sociology & Urban Studies

Department of Sociology

Box 1916

Brown University

Providence, RI 02912

Phone No.: (401) 863-2524; 2367

Fax: 401-863-3213

E-mail: [email protected]

2. HOME

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Phone No.: (314) 725-5386

3. EDUCATION

Ph.D. 1970 University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Dissertation: “Spatial Variation of Black Urban

Households” (Geography)

M.S. 1967 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois (Geography)

B.A. 1965 Concordia Teachers College, River Forest, Illinois (Geography and Education)

4. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

1997-present Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

2006-2008 Visiting Professor of Business, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, St.

Louis, Missouri

1996-1999 Director, Urban Studies Program, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

1995-1996 Acting Director, Urban Studies Program, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

1995-1999 Co-Editor, Journal of Historical Geography

1995 Consultant, New Haven Colony Historical Society, New Haven, Connecticut

1990-1997 Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode

Island

1992 Visiting Faculty, Connecticut Academy for English, Geography, and History, Sponsored by

U.S. Department of Education and University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

1988-1989 Visiting Fellow, Economic Growth Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

1981-1990 Assistant Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode

Island

1980 Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies, Brown University, Providence,

Rhode Island

1976-1981 Associate Professor of Geography, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

1977 Visiting Associate Professor of Geography, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

1970-1976 Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

1969-1970 Research Assistant, Center for Urban Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

1965-1966 Teaching Assistant, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois

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5. COMPLETED RESEARCH

5a. Books and Monographs

Meyer, David R., 2006, Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America (Baltimore,

MD: Johns Hopkins University Press).

_____, 2003, The Roots of American Industrialization (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press).

_____, 2000, Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press).

_____, 1976, From Farm to Factory to Urban Pastoralism: Urban Change in Central Connecticut (Cambridge, MA:

Ballinger Publishing Company).

_____, 1970, Spatial Variation of Black Urban Households, Department of Geography Research Paper No. 129

(Chicago, IL: University of Chicago).

5b. Chapters in Books

Meyer, David R., 2005, “Industrial Landscape,” The Encyclopedia of New England: The Culture and History of an

American Region, edited by Burt Feintuch and David H. Watters (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press),

pp. 573-74.

_____, 2005, “The Challenges of Research on the Global Network of Cities,” Urban Geography in America, 1950-

2000, edited by Brian J. L. Berry and James O. Wheeler (New York: Routledge), pp. 217-31. [Reprint of David

R. Meyer, “The Challenges of Research on the Global Network of Cities,” Urban Geography, Vol. 24, No. 4

(2003), pp. 301-13.]

_____, 2004, “American Industrialization,” EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples, May 13. URL

http://www.eh.net/encyclopedia/contents/meyer.industrialization.php (11 pages).

_____, 2002, “Hong Kong: Global Capital Exchange,” Global Networks, Linked Cities, edited by Saskia Sassen

(New York, NY: Routledge), pp. 249-71.

_____, 2001, “The National Integration of Regional Economies, 1860-1920,” North America: The Historical

Geography of a Changing Continent, edited by Thomas F. McIlwraith and Edward K. Muller (2nd ed.; Lanham,

MD: Rowman & Littlefield), pp. 307-31. [Revision of chapter in 1st edition, published in 1987]

_____, 1998, “World Cities as Financial Centres,” Globalization and the World of Large Cities, edited by Fu-chen

Lo and Yue-man Yeung (Tokyo: United Nations University Press), pp. 410-32.

_____, 1996, “The Transition From Agriculture to Manufacturing in the East Before 1860,” The Changing

American Countryside: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Emery Castle and Barbara Baldwin, Proceedings of

a Conference Sponsored by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, November 30-December 1, 1995 (Corvallis, OR:

Western Rural Development Center), pp. 11-18.

_____, 1991, “The Formation of a Global Financial Center: London and its Intermediaries,” Cities in the World-

System, edited by Resat Kasaba (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press), pp. 97-106.

_____, 1990, “The New Industrial Order,” The Making of the American Landscape, edited by Michael P. Conzen

(Boston, MA: Unwin Hyman), pp. 249-68.

_____, 1987, “The National Integration of Regional Economies, 1860-1920,” North America: The Historical

Geography of a Changing Continent, edited by Robert D. Mitchell and Paul A. Groves (Totowa, NJ: Rowman

& Littlefield), pp. 321-46.

http://www.eh.net/encyclopedia/contents/meyer.industrialization.php

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_____, 1984, “Intermediate Cities in the System of Cities in Developing Countries,” Conference on Urban Growth

and Economic Development in the Pacific Region (Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica),

pp. 141-59.

_____, 1981, “Connecticut as a Regional Industrial Complex,” Proceedings, New England-St. Lawrence Valley

Geographical Society, Vol. 10 (1980), pp. 7-9.

_____, 1979, “Image and the Physical Environment,” Hartford, The City and the Region: Past, Present, Future,

edited by Sondra Astor Stave (Hartford, CT: University of Hartford), pp. 13-17.

_____, 1978, “Urban Industrial Growth of Coastal Connecticut in the Nineteenth Century,” Long Island Sound: The

People and the Environment, Proceedings of Public Policy Symposium sponsored by the Oceanic Society, with

the Support of the Connecticut Humanities Council, pp. 139-48.

_____, 1977, “A Critique of Pred‟s Model of Industrialization and Urban-Size Growth,” Proceedings, New England-

St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society, Vol. 5 (1975), pp. 6-10.

_____, 1976, “From Farm to Factory to Urban Pastoralism: Urban Change in Central Connecticut,” Contemporary

Metropolitan America, Vol. 1, Cities of the Nation‟s Historic Metropolitan Core, edited by John S. Adams

(Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company), pp. 291-348.

_____, 1974, “Use of Two-Stage Least Squares to Solve Simultaneous Equation Systems in Geography,”

Proceedings of the 1972 Meeting of the IGU Commission on Quantitative Geography, edited by Maurice

Yeates (Montreal and London: McGill-Queen‟s University Press), pp. 101-12.

_____, 1973, “Urban Locational Analysis: A Paradigm in Need of Revolution,” Proceedings of the Association of

American Geographers, Vol. 5, pp. 169-73.

_____, 1972, “Implications of Some Recommended Alternative Urban Strategies for Black Residential Choice,”

Geography of the Ghetto: Perceptions, Problems, and Alternatives, edited by Harold M. Rose, Perspectives in

Geography, Vol. 2 (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press), pp. 130-42.

_____, 1972, “Differences Among Black Residential Areas: Some Observations and an Example,” Proceedings,

New England-St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society, Vol. 1 (1971), pp. 43-47.

_____, 1972, “Classification of U.S. Metropolitan Areas by Characteristics of their Non-White Populations,” City

Classification Handbook: Methods and Applications, edited by Brian J. L. Berry (New York, NY: Wiley-

Interscience), pp. 61-93.

5c. Refereed Journal Articles

Meyer, David R., 2003, “The Challenges of Research on the Global Network of Cities,” Urban Geography, Vol. 24,

No. 4, pp. 301-13.

Llobrera, Joseph; Meyer, David R.; and Gregory Nammacher, 2000, “Trajectories of Industrial Districts: Impact of

Strategic Intervention in Medical Districts,” Economic Geography, Vol. 76 (January), pp. 68-98.

Anh, Dang, and David R. Meyer, 1999, “Impact of Human Capital on Joint-Venture Investment in Vietnam,” World

Development, Vol. 27 (August), pp. 1413-26

Meyer, David R., 1998, “Formation of Advanced Technology Districts: New England Textile Machinery and

Firearms, 1790-1820,” Economic Geography, Special Issue, pp. 31-45.

_____, 1997, “Expert Managers of Uncertainty: Intermediaries of Capital in Hong Kong,” Cities, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp.

257-63.

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Lynch, Jean, and David R. Meyer, 1992, “Dynamics of the U.S. System of Cities, 1950 to 1980: The Impact of the

Large Corporate Law Firm,” Urban Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 28 (September), pp. 38-68.

Meyer, David R., 1991, “Change in the World System of Metropolises: The Role of Business Intermediaries,”

Urban Geography, Vol. 12 (September-October), pp. 393-416.

_____, 1990, “The National Prominence of Connecticut‟s Industrial Centers in the Nineteenth Century,” The

Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin, Vol. 55 (Winter/Spring), pp. 68-80.

_____, 1990, “The Rise of the Industrial Metropolis: The Myth and the Reality,” Social Forces, Vol. 68 (March), pp.

731-52.

_____, 1989, “Midwestern Industrialization and the American Manufacturing Belt in the Nineteenth Century,”

Journal of Economic History, Vol. 49 (December), pp. 921-37.

_____, 1988, “The Industrial Retardation of Southern Cities, 1860-1880,” Explorations in Economic History, Vol.

25 (October), pp. 366-86.

_____, 1988, “The Division of Labor and the Market Areas of Manufacturing Firms,” Sociological Forum, Vol. 3

(Summer), pp. 433-53.

_____, 1988, “Industry in Southern Cities in the Nineteenth Century,” Geoscience & Man, Vol. 25 (June), pp. 129-

37.

_____, and Kyonghee Min, 1988, “Concentration and Specialization of Manufacturing in Core and Peripheral Cities

During Rapid Industrialization: Korea, 1960-1970,” Comparative Urban and Community Research, Vol. 1, pp.

38-61.

_____, and Kyonghee Min, 1987, “City Employment Change in the Republic of Korea, 1960-1970,” Urban Affairs

Quarterly, Vol. 22 (June), pp. 598-616.

_____, 1986, “System of Cities Dynamics in Newly Industrializing Nations,” Studies in Comparative International

Development, Vol. 21 (Spring), pp. 3-22.

_____, 1986, “The World System of Cities: Relations Between International Financial Metropolises and South

American Cities,” Social Forces, Vol. 64 (March), pp. 553-81.

_____, 1984, “Control and Coordination Links in the Metropolitan System of Cities: The South as Case Study,”

Social Forces, Vol. 63 (December), pp. 349-62.

_____, 1983, “Emergence of the American Manufacturing Belt: An Interpretation,” Journal of Historical

Geography, Vol. 9 (April), pp. 145-74.

_____, 1980, “Industrious Entrepreneurs Make Their Mark,” Geographical Magazine, Vol. 52 (June), pp. 647-54.

_____, 1980, “A Dynamic Model of the Integration of Frontier Urban Places into the United States System of

Cities,” Economic Geography, Vol. 56 (April), pp. 120-40.

_____, 1977, “Agglomeration Economies and Urban-Industrial Growth: A Clarification and Review of Concepts,”

Regional Science Perspectives, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 80-92.

_____, 1973, “Blacks in Slum Housing: A Distorted Theme,” Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 4 (December), pp. 139-

52.

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_____, 1973, “Interurban Differences in Black Housing Quality,” Annals of the Association of American

Geographers, Vol. 63 (September), pp. 347-52.

_____, 1972, “Samples and Populations: Rejoinder to „All Populations are Estimated from Samples,‟“ Professional

Geographer, Vol. 24 (May), pp. 161-62.

_____, 1972, “Geographical Population Data: Statistical Description Not Statistical Inference,” Professional

Geographer, Vol. 24 (February), pp. 26-28.

_____, 1971, “Factor Analysis Versus Correlation Analysis: Are Substantive Interpretations Congruent?” Economic

Geography, Vol. 47, Supplement (June), pp. 336-43.

5d. Non-Refereed Journal Articles

Meyer, David R., 1997, “China Regains Control: Does Hong Kong Have a Future after 1997,” Brown Economic

Review, Vol. 5 (Spring), pp. 30-31.

_____, 1996, “Editorial,” Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 22 (January), pp. 1-2.

_____, 1974, “The Urban Interface Between Geography and Anthropology,” Urban Anthropology Newsletter, Vol.

3 (Spring), pp. 6-8.

5e. Op-Eds in Newspapers

Meyer, David R., 2007, “Business as Usual,” South China Morning Post (June 21), p. A17.

_____, 2007, “Do Corporate Headquarters Matter,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (June 11), p. B11.

5f. Book Reviews

Meyer, David R., 2005, Capital‟s Utopia: Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916, by Anne E. Mosher (Baltimore,

MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), in Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 31 (April), pp. 368-70.

_____, 2002, Wealth, Waste, and Alienation: Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke Industry, by Kenneth

Warren (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), in Business History Review, Vol. 76 (Spring),

pp. 152-3.

_____, 2001, Hong Kong‟s Embattled Democracy: A Societal Analysis, by Alvin Y. So (Baltimore, MD: Johns

Hopkins University Press, 1999), in Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 30 (May), pp. 283-4.

_____, 2001, Hong Kong in Transition, edited by Robert Ash, Peter Ferdinand, Brian Hook, and Robin Porter (New

York, NY: St. Martin‟s Press, 2000), in Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 60 (May), pp. 520-1.

_____, 2000, Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England, edited by Peter Temin (Cambridge,

MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), in EH.NET-REVIEW Digest 123 (August).

_____, 1998, The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1915, by John K. Brown (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins

University Press, 1995), in Business History Review, Vol. 72 (Winter), pp. 633-35.

_____, 1995, Making Arms in the Machine Age: Philadelphia‟s Frankford Arsenal, 1816-1870, by James J. Farley

(University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994), in Business History Review, Vol. 69

(Spring), pp. 95-97.

_____, 1993, Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West: The Rise and Fall of Antebellum St. Louis, by

Jeffrey S. Adler (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1991), in Business History Review, Vol. 67

(Spring), pp. 146-49.

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_____, 1992, The Capitalist Imperative: Territory, Technology, and Industrial Growth, by Michael Storper and

Richard Walker (New York, NY: Basil Blackwell, 1989), in Journal of Economic History, Vol. 52 (March), pp.

266-68.

_____, 1991, Coping with City Growth during the British Industrial Revolution, by Jeffrey G. Williamson (New

York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1990), in Business History Review, Vol. 65 (Winter), pp. 1006-1008.

_____, 1991, The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860, by Christopher Clark (Ithaca, NY:

Cornell University Press, 1990), in Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 17 (October), pp. 475-76.

_____, 1991, Global Formation: Structures of the World-Economy, by Christopher Chase-Dunn (Cambridge, MA:

Basil Blackwell, 1989), in Economic Geography, Vol. 67 (October), pp. 364-66.

_____, 1991, The Evolution of Regional Economies: Entrepreneurship and Macroeconomic Change, by Luis

Suarez-Villa (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1989), in Journal of Economic History, Vol. 51 (June), pp. 535-36.

_____, 1991, Changing Cities of Pacific Asia: A Scholarly Interpretation, by Yue-Man Yeung (Hong Kong: The

Chinese University Press, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990), in Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 50

(February), pp. 124-25.

_____, 1990, The American Steel Industry, 1850-1970: A Geographical Interpretation, by Kenneth Warren (Reprint;

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989), in Journal of Economic History, Vol. 50 (September), pp.

764-65.

_____, 1989, Essays on the Economy of the Old Northwest, edited by David C. Klingaman and Richard K. Vedder

(Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1987), in Business History Review, Vol. 63 (Summer), pp. 418-20.

_____, 1981, The Usable Urban Past: Planning and Politics in the Modern Canadian City, edited by Alan F. J.

Artibise and Gilbert A. Stetler (Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd., 1979), in Journal of Historical

Geography, Vol. 7 (July), pp. 317-18.

_____, 1981, Urban Growth and City-Systems in the United States, 1840-1860, by Allan Pred (Cambridge, MA:

Harvard University Press, 1980), in Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 21 (November), pp. 568-70.

_____, 1981, Economic Geography: Spatial and Environmental Aspects of Economic Activity, by Joseph H. Butler

(New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1980), in Professional Geographer, Vol. 33 (August), pp. 381-82.

_____, 1980, Revitalizing the Northeast: Prelude to an Agenda, edited by George Sternlieb and James W. Hughes

(New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers, The State University, 1978), in Urban

Geography, Vol. 1, No. 2 (April-June), pp. 184-86.

_____, 1979, Anthropology of the City: An Introduction to Urban Anthropology, by Edwin Eames and Judith

Granich Goode (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1977), in Comparative Urban Research, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp.

33-35.

_____, 1979, Economic Development in the Philadelphia Region, 1810-1850, by Diane Lindstrom (New York, NY:

Columbia University Press, 1978), in Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 69

(September), pp. 505-507.

_____, 1976, Spatial Perspectives on Industrial Organization and Decision-Making, edited by F. E. Ian Hamilton

(London, Eng.: John Wiley & Sons, 1974), and Locational Dynamics of Manufacturing Activity, edited by

Lyndhurst Collins and David F. Walker (London, Eng.: John Wiley & Sons, 1975), in Economic Geography,

Vol. 52 (July), pp. 282-84.

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_____, 1975, Urban Growth and the Circulation of Information: The United States System of Cities, 1790-1840, by

Allan R. Pred (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973), in Geographical Review, Vol. 65 (October),

pp. 535-37.

_____, 1975, The City: Problems of Planning, edited by Murray Stewart, Penguin Interdisciplinary Readings

(Middlesex, Eng.: Penguin Books, Ltd., 1972), in Geographical Analysis, Vol. 7 (January), pp. 105-106.

_____, 1972, The Urban Mosaic, by D. W. G. Timms, Cambridge Geographical Studies No. 2 (Cambridge, Eng.:

Cambridge University Press, 1971), in Economic Geography, Vol. 48 (October), pp. 448-49.

5g. Abstracts

Abstracts published for most of my presentations at professional meetings.

5h. Invited Lectures

Meyer, David R., 2007, “Success is Knowing that You Don‟t Know: Asian Financiers Tell Their Story,” Thought

Leadership Conference on Innovative Ideas Applied to Business, Olin Business School, Washington University

in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, October 25.

_____, 2007, “The Restructuring of Hong Kong as a Financial Center,” Department of Geography, National

University of Singapore, Singapore, May 18.

_____, 2007, “Hong Kong Repositions as a Financial Center,” Brown Alumni Club of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Club, Hong Kong, China, May 11.

_____, 2007, “How Global Financiers Find and Evaluate Opportunities,” Mini-Conference on Opportunity

Discovery, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, April 30-May 1.

_____, 2007, “A Strategic Approach to Business Opportunities in Asia,” International Business in Action, Practical

Solutions for Global Organizations, International Business Outlook Conference, Olin Business School,

Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, April 20.

Meyer, David R., 2007, “Hong Kong‟s Future as a Financial Center,” Conference on Banking and Monetary History

of Hong Kong: Hong Kong‟s Current Challenges in Historical Perspective, Hong Kong Institute for Monetary

Research, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong, China, April 16-17.

Levy, Tal, and David R. Meyer, 2007, “Network Governance within the Bank of China,” International Conference

on Contemporary China Studies, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, January 5-6.

_____, 2006, “The Job Recruitment Networks of Hong Kong‟s Global Financial Firms,” Changing Geography in a

Diversified World: In Commemoration of the 50th

Anniversary of Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong,

June 1-3.

_____, 2005, “Panelist: U.S.-Taiwan-China and the Prospect of Peace—„Is Sustainable Peace Possible,‟” Strait Talk

Symposium on U.S.-China-Taiwan Relations, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University,

Providence, RI, November 9-13.

_____, 2005, “Economics and Politics: Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, and Their Future,” Brown Taiwan Society,

Brown University, Providence, RI, March 9.

_____, 2004, “Hong Kong and Shanghai as China‟s Window to Global Capital,” City Futures: An International

Conference on Globalisation and Urban Change, Chicago, IL, July 8-10.

_____, 2004, “Challenges to Hong Kong as the Business Center of Asia,” Rotary Club of Victoria, Hong Kong, May

17.

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_____, 2004, “Hong Kong‟s Future as a Global Metropolis,” Rotary Club of Hong Kong Northeast, Hong Kong,

May 14.

_____, 2003, “China‟s Access to Global Capital Networks Through Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Taipei,”

International Conference on Globalization, the State, and Urban Transformation in China,” Hong Kong Baptist

University, Hong Kong, December 15-17.

_____, 2003, “Hong Kong‟s Status as a Global Metropolis,” Vision 2047, Hong Kong Club, Hong Kong, December

9.

_____, 2002, “Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Taipei in the Global Financial Urban System,” Sixth Annual Conference

on the History and Culture of Taiwan, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, May 3-4.

_____, 2001, “Machinist Networks in the Eastern United States as of the 1850s,” 11th International Conference of

Historical Geographers, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, August 12-18.

_____, 2001, “The Eastern Archetype of Agricultural and Industrial Transformation: Early Antebellum

Connecticut,” Penn Economic History Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, February 9.

_____, 2000, “Asian Development as Seen Through Hong Kong,” Center for the Comparative Study of

Development, Brown University, Providence, RI, October 18.

_____, 2000, “Teaching Critical Analysis with Electronic Resources,” Fontbonne College, St. Louis, MO, March 3.

_____, 2000, “Hong Kong: Business Pivot of Asia,” College of Business Administration, Loyola University of New

Orleans, New Orleans, LA, February 4.

_____, 1999, “Hong Kong as Global Financial Center for Asia: From the 1950s to the 1990s,” International

Conference—People‟s Republic of China at Fifty: Opportunities and Challenges, Hong Kong Baptist

University, Hong Kong, June 8-10.

_____, 1998, “Guanxi and Red Chips in Hong Kong: Political Corruption or Business as Usual?” Department of

Political Science, Brown University, Providence, RI, October 15.

_____, 1998, “The Global Networks of Capital,” United Nations University Workshop on Global Cities and Their

Cross-Border Networks: The Impact of Transnationalism and Telematics, Institute of Asian Research,

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, June 24-25.

_____, 1997, “Hong Kong after 1997,” Commencement Forum, Brown University, Providence, RI, May 25.

_____, 1997, “Hong Kong Faces the Return to China,” Center for the Comparative Study of Development, Brown

University, Providence, RI, April 10.

_____, 1997, “The Future of Hong Kong as Global Metropolis for Asia,” Centre of Asian Studies, University of

Hong Kong, Hong Kong, March 25.

_____, 1997, “Hong Kong after 1997: Global Metropolis for Asia,” Rotary Club of Victoria, Furama Hotel, Hong

Kong, March 24.

_____, 1997, “Global Networks of Capital: A Hong Kong Perspective,” United Nations University, Institute of

Advanced Studies Project on Global Cities, Center for Advanced Study, Stanford, CA, January 6-7.

_____, 1996, “International Cities,” CAPT Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, July 12.

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_____, 1996, “Finance and Trade Center for Asia: Hong Kong from the 1860s to the 1930s,” Economic History

Workshop, Department of Economics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 17.

_____, 1995, “The Transition From Agriculture to Manufacturing in the East Before 1860,” W. K. Kellogg

Foundation National Rural Studies Committee Conference on the Changing American Countryside, University

of Maryland, College Park, MD, November 30-December 1.

_____, 1995, “World Cities as Financial Centers,” United Nations Pre-Habitat II Tokyo Conference on “World

Cities and the Urban Future,” United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, August 23-25.

_____, 1995, “Canals and the Industrialization of New England,” Symposium on the Farmington Canal, New Haven

Colony Historical Society, New Haven, CT, April 1.

_____, 1994, “The National and Regional Context of Metropolitan Industrial Districts,” Conference on the

Pittsburgh Metropolitan Industrial District, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, November 19.

_____, 1994, “Casinos in Providence and Rhode Island,” Forum: Gambling in Rhode Island, Sponsored by the John

Hazen White Public Opinion Laboratory and the Alliance to Save South County, Brown University,

Providence, RI, May 23.

_____, 1993, “Connecticut Industrialization, 1790-1820: Yankee Ingenuity or Archetypical Example?” Connecticut

Historical Society, Hartford, CT, November 3.

_____, 1993, “Hong Kong: Regional Pivot in the World System of Cities,” Conference on World Cities in a World-

System, Center for Innovative Technology, Sterling, VA, April 1-3.

_____, 1993, “Hong Kong‟s Status as an International Financial Center,” American Association of University

Women, Willimantic, CT, February 3.

_____, 1992, “Hong Kong 1997: Will it Have a Future in International Finance?” Brown Club of Northern

California, San Francisco, CA, January 17.

_____, 1992, “Financial Centers on the Knife Edge: Hong Kong, New York, Boston, and Providence,” Brown

Humanities Institute, Butler Hospital, Providence, RI, January 8.

_____, 1991, “Hong Kong: World City in Transition,” Department of Geography, Rhode Island College,

Providence, RI, December 5.

_____, 1991, “The Impact of the Expansion of Large Corporate Law Firms on the System of Cities,” Department of

Geography, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, February 8.

_____, 1991, “Competition Among Global Financial Centers: Prospects for the Pacific Rim,” Hong Kong Institute

of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, January 14.

_____, 1990, “The U.S. Manufacturing Belt,” National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, August 8.

_____, 1990, “The Rise of London as a Global Financial Center,” XIV Annual Conference on the Political Economy

of the World System, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, March 29-31.

_____, 1989, “Pacific Rim Finance: Competition from Emerging Financial Centers,” Brown Alumni Club of

Washington, Seattle, WA, October 7.

_____, 1989, “Long Term Change in the World System of Cities,” Center for Studies of Social Change, New School

for Social Research, New York, NY, February 24.

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_____, 1988, “Long Term Dynamics in the World System of Metropolitan Areas,” Department of Geography, Ohio

State University, Columbus, OH, November 17.

_____, 1988, “Recent Regional Economic Changes in the U.S. in Historical Perspective,” Workshop on Analytical

Economic Geography and Regional Economic Change, Phoenix, AZ, April 6.

_____, 1988, “Connecticut‟s Historic Industrial Landscape,” Conference on “The University, Technologic Change,

and Regional Development,” Organized by the Department of Geography, University of Connecticut, and

Arbeitskreis USA im Zentralverband der Deutschen Geographen, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, March

28-30.

_____, 1987, “The Industrial Roots of Connecticut‟s Cities,” Department of Geography, Southern Connecticut State

University, New Haven, CT, November 20.

_____, 1987, “The Establishment of the American Manufacturing Belt: Industrial Cities, 1860-1880,” Economic

History Workshop, Yale University, New Haven, CT, October 1.

_____, 1987, “Connecticut‟s Nineteenth-Century Urban Heritage,” Symposium on “The Urban Landscape: Past,

Present, & Future,” Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT, September 26.

_____, 1984, “Analysis of a System of Cities in a Developing Country: South Korea in the 1960s,” Department of

Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, March 30.

_____, 1984, “Intermediate Cities in the System of Cities in Developing Countries,” Conference on Urban Growth

and Economic Development in the Pacific Region, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan,

January 9-11.

_____, 1983, “The Role of International Banks in the World System of Cities,” Department of Geography,

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, April 8.

_____, 1982, “Understanding the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” Willimantic Lions Club, Willimantic, CT, November 1.

_____, 1982, “The City as it is Becoming,” Division for Mission in North America, Lutheran Church in America,

All-Staff Training Event, Philadelphia, PA, March 22.

_____, 1982, “Arabs and Israelis: Contact in the Israeli Setting,” Willimantic Women‟s Club, Willimantic, CT,

January 5.

_____, 1981, “Emergence of the American Manufacturing Belt: An Interpretation,” Social History Workshop,

Brown University, Providence, RI, November 24.

_____, 1981, “Banking and the Southern System of Cities,” Department of Sociology, Brown University,

Providence, RI, June 17.

_____, 1981, “The Nineteenth Century Regional Industrial System,” Department of Geography, University of

Maryland, College Park, MD, April 15.

_____, 1981, “The American Manufacturing Belt: Historical Geography and Current Problems,” Miami

Geographical Society/Gamma Theta Upsilon, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, January 19.

_____, 1980, “Application of Urban Geographic Concepts to Corporate Relocation Firms,” Home Equity, Inc.,

Wilton, CT, August 29.

_____, 1979, “Image and the Physical Environment,” National Endowment for the Humanities Funded Conference

on “Hartford, the City and the Region,” University of Hartford, Hartford, CT, June 20.

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_____, 1979, “Emergence of the American Manufacturing Belt,” Department of Geography, University of

Connecticut, Storrs, CT, February 6.

_____, 1978, “Urban Sprawl: A Viable Land Use System,” Department of Environmental Science, University of

Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, April 20.

_____, 1978, “Urban Development in Central Connecticut,” Hartford Studies Group, Hartford, CT, February 22.

_____, 1978, “Industrialization of the Connecticut Shore in the Nineteenth Century,” Symposium on “Long Island

Sound: The People and the Environment,” sponsored by the Oceanic Society, Stamford, CT, February 16.

_____, 1977, “Arabs and Israelis: Contact in a Micro Landscape,” Department of Geography, University of

Connecticut, Storrs, CT, December 14.

_____, 1977, “Emergence of a System of Regional Urban Industrial Complexes in 19th Century U.S.A.,”

Department of Geography, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, April 19.

_____, 1977, “Functional Differentiation of American Cities,” Department of Geography, Tel Aviv University, Tel

Aviv, Israel, March 24.

_____, 1977, “Systems of Cities and Land Use,” Series of ten lectures presented at Department of Geography,

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, February 16-March 30.

_____, 1976, “Urban Change in Central Connecticut,” Department of History, University of Connecticut, Storrs,

CT, November 30.

_____, 1975, “Urban Sprawl: A Viable Land Use System,” Environmental Seminar Series Lecture, University of

Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, April 10.

_____, 1975, “Industrial Urbanization in the Connecticut Valley,” Department of History, University of

Connecticut-Stamford Branch, Stamford, CT, April 9.

_____, 1974, “Central Connecticut: Urban Region of the Future,” Urban Studies Club, University of Connecticut,

Storrs, CT, December 3.

_____, 1974, “Scale Economies and Nineteenth Century Urban-Industrial Growth,” Department of Geography,

Boston University, Boston, MA, November 15.

_____, 1974, “The Urban Interface Between Geography and Anthropology,” Department of Anthropology,


_____, 1974, “Seeing Urban Regions Through New Lenses,” Department of Geography, University of Maryland,

College Park, MD, April 23.

_____, 1973, “Urban Program Evaluation,” Symposium on “Towards an Urban Studies Center at UMass,”


_____, 1973, “A New Look at the City,” Department of Geography, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI,

February 19.

_____, 1972, “Perspectives on Black Housing Quality in Cities,” Department of Geography, University of Illinois-

Circle Campus, Chicago, IL, October 5.

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5i. Papers Read

Meyer, David R., 2007, “The Global Job Mobility Networks of Asian Financial Firms,” Second Global Conference

on Economic Geography, Beijing International Convention Center, Beijing, China, June 25-28.

_____, 2005, “Networks of Job Mobility Among Global Financial Firms in Hong Kong,” 101st Annual Meeting of

the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 5-9.

_____, 2004, “Machinists in Networks: Building America‟s Earliest High Technology Industries,” American

Sociological Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA, August 14-17.

_____, 2004, “The Financial Division of Labor Between Hong Kong and Shanghai,” North American Chinese

Sociologists Association Mini-Conference, San Francisco, CA, August 13.

_____, 2004, “Competition Among Asian Financial Centers for Control Over China‟s Integration With Global

Capital Markets,” 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA, March

14-19.

_____, 2003, “The Challenges of Research on Global City Networks,” 99th Annual Meeting of the Association of

American Geographers, New Orleans, LA, March 5-8.

_____, 2002, “Iron Foundries Rule the Heavy Capital Equipment Industry in the East, 1820-1860,” Economic

History Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, October 11-13.

_____, 2002, “Cotton-Textile Machinists Build a Networked Community,” American Sociological Association

Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL, August 16-19.

_____, 2002, “Theorizing China‟s Urban System in a Global Urban System,” 98th Annual Meeting of the

Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, March 19-23.

_____, 2001, “Market-Driven, Network Strategies Power Antebellum Connecticut Industrialists to Dominance,”

Social Science History Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL, November 15-18.

_____, 2001, “Networks of Financial Capital,” 97th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,

New York, NY, February 27-March 3.

_____, 2000, “Asian Metropolises as the Nexus of Chinese and Foreign Business Networks,” 96th Annual Meeting

of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA, April 4-8.

_____, 2000, “The Enigma of Economic Development of the Antebellum East,” Organization of American

Historians Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, March 30-April 2.

_____, 1999, “Competition for Global Metropolis of Asia,” American Sociological Association Annual Meetings,

Chicago, IL, August 6-10.

_____, 1998, “Agricultural Change in the East,” Social Science History Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL,

November 19-22.

_____, 1998, “Chinese Social Networks of Capital,” American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, San

Francisco, CA, August 21-25.

_____, 1998, “China‟s Global Cities,” 94th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston,

MA, March 25-29.

_____, 1997, “Steam Engines from the Elites: American Technological Change, 1790-1820,” Economic History

Association Annual Meeting, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, September 12-14.

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_____, 1997, “Social Networks of Capital in Asia: The View from Hong Kong,” American Sociological Association

Annual Meetings, Toronto, Ontario, August 9-13.

_____, 1997, “Hong Kong and the Rise of Asian Peasants Out of Poverty,” 93rd Annual Meeting of the Association

of American Geographers, Fort Worth, TX, April 1-5.

_____, 1997, “The East as a Model of the Transition from Agriculture to Manufacturing,” American Historical

Association Annual Meetings, New York, NY, January 2-5.

_____, 1996, “The Formation of a World Regional Financial Center: Hong Kong, 1840s to 1990s,” American

Sociological Association Annual Meetings, New York, NY, August 16-20.

Anh, Dang, and David R. Meyer, 1996, “Joint Venture Investment and the Demographic Patterrns of Vietnam,”

Population Association of America Annual Meetings, New Orleans, LA, May 9-11.

Meyer, David R., 1996, “Competitive Financial Centers in Asia: Singapore, Shanghai, and Hong Kong Since the

Mid-19th Century,” 92nd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, NC, April 9-

13.

_____, 1995, “The Unimportance of Antebellum Canals to Eastern Regional Development,” 91st Annual Meeting of

the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, March 14-18.

_____, 1994, “Regional Financial Centers: The Case of Hong Kong,” American Sociological Association Annual

Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, August 5-9.

_____, 1994, “Steam Engines and Elites in New York and Philadelphia, 1790-1820,” 90th Annual Meeting of the

Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, March 29-April 2.

_____, 1993, “Girding for Regional and National Competition: The Cleveland Industrial Complex, 1860-1880,”

Social Science History Association Annual Meetings, Baltimore, MD, November 4-7.

_____, 1993, “Transformation of the Cleveland Industrial Complex, 1860-1880,” 89th Annual Meeting of the

Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, GA, April 6-10.

_____, 1992, “Metropolitan Industrial Complexes in Transition, 1860 to 1880,” Social Science History Association

Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 5-8.

_____, 1992, “Hong Kong in the World System of Cities,” Symposium of the Commission on Urban Systems and

Urban Development, 27th International Geographical Congress, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, August 4-

8.

_____, 1992, “Forming the Modern Metropolitan Industrial Complex: Regional Market Manufacturing in the 19th

Century,” 88th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Diego, CA, April 18-22.

_____, 1991, “Hong Kong 1997: Persistence or Decline as an International Financial Center?” North American

Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, New Orleans, LA, November 7-10.

_____, 1991, “The Formation and Dynamics of Metropolitan Industrial Complexes in the Manufacturing Belt,”

Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, October 31-November 3.

Lynch, Jean, and David R. Meyer, 1991, “Transformation of the U.S. System of Cities, 1950-1980: The View from

the Large Corporate Law Firm,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, August

23-27.

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Meyer, David R., 1991, “The New York Industrial Complex in the Nineteenth Century,” 87th Annual Meeting of

the Association of American Geographers, Miami, FL, April 13-17.

_____, 1990, “Centers of the Nation‟s Industry: Metropolitan Industrial Complexes in the Nineteenth Century,”

Eastern Historical Geography Association Meeting, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, October 4-7.

_____, 1990, “Dynamics of Metropolitan Industrial Complexes, 1860-1920,” American Sociological Association

Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, August 11-15.

_____, 1990, “Regional Agricultural Development and Urban-Industrial Growth: The Institutional Context,” 86th

Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Toronto, Canada, April 19-22.

_____, 1989, “World System of Cities and Implications for National Policy,” 31st Annual Meeting of the

Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland, OR, October 4-7.

_____, 1989, “Agency, Structure, and the State: Historical Change in the World System of Metropolises,” American

Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 9-13.

_____, 1989, “Metropolitan Manufacturing in the Nineteenth Century: Myth and Reality,” 85th Annual Meeting of

the Association of American Geographers, Baltimore, MD, March 19-22.

_____, 1989, “Systems of Cities in East Asia: The Link Between Agricultural and Industrial Development,”

Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, March 17-19.

_____, 1988, “The Division of Labor and the Market Areas of Manufacturing Firms,” American Sociological

Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 24-28.

Cassidy, George, and David R. Meyer, 1988, “The Dynamics of Financial Control and Coordination in a Regional

System of Cities: Colorado,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 24-28.

Fiedler, Catherine B., and David R. Meyer, 1988, “Transportation Change in Yugoslavia, 1800-1985: The Political-

Economy of Regional Development,” 84th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,

Phoenix, AZ, April 6-10.

Meyer, David R., 1987, “The Industrial Retardation of Southern Cities, 1860-1880,” Eastern Historical Geography

Association Meeting, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, October 15-18.

_____, 1987, “Metropolitan Industrialization in the Nineteenth Century,” American Sociological Association

Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 17-21.

Taylor, Salome, and David R. Meyer, 1987, “The System of Cities in Ghana: From Colonialism to Post-

Colonialism,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 17-21.

_____, 1987, “Urban Population Concentration in Ghana, 1948-1984: The Legacy of Colonialism,” Population

Association of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 30-May 2.

Meyer, David R., 1987, “The Economic Intermediary and the Corporation,” 83rd Annual Meeting of the Association

of American Geographers, Portland, OR, April 21-26.

_____, 1987, “Dynamics of a World System of Cities,” International Studies Association Meetings, Washington,

DC, April 14-18.

_____, 1986, “The Manufacturing Specialization of Metropolises, 1860-1880,” Southern Regional Demographic

Group Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 15-17.

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_____, 1986, “The Scale Economies Hypothesis,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York,

NY, August 30-September 3.

_____, 1986, “Southern Industrial Cities in the Nineteenth Century,” Sixth International Conference of Historical

Geographers, Louisiana, July 19-26.

_____, 1986, “Industrial Concentration in U.S. Cities, 1860-1880,” 82nd Annual Meeting of the Association of

American Geographers, Minneapolis, MN, May 3-7.

DeCiantis, Mary Lou, and David R. Meyer, 1985, “Bank Lending Policies and Director Networks,” American

Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, August 26-30.

Meyer, David R., 1985, “The Economic Intermediary in Nonlocal Exchange,” American Sociological Association

Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, August 26-30.

_____, 1985, “The Northeast and Regional Integration,” Annual Meeting of the National Council for Geographic

Education, Breckenridge, CO, August 4-12.

_____, 1985, “Dynamics of American Industrial Cities, 1860-1920,” 81st Annual Meeting of the Association of

American Geographers, Detroit, MI, April 21-24.

_____, 1984, “Systems of Cities Dynamics in Newly Industrializing Nations,” American Sociological Association

Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, August 27-31.

_____, and Kyonghee Min, 1984, “The Dynamics of the System of Cities in Korea, 1960 to 1970,” Population

Association of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, May 3-5.

Meyer, David R., 1984, “The World System of Cities: Relations Between International Financial Metropolises and

South American Cities,” International Studies Association Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 27-31.

_____, 1984, “The Division of Labor Among Nineteenth Century Industrial Cities,” Eastern Sociological Society

Meeting, Boston, MA, March 9-11.

_____, 1983, “Specialization in Nineteenth Century American Regional Industrial Complexes,” Social Science

History Association Meeting, Washington, DC, October 27-30.

_____, and Kyonghee Min, 1983, “Manufacturing Dynamics in the System of Cities: Korea, 1960-1970,” 79th

Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 24-27.

Meyer, David R., 1983, “A Dynamic Ecological Model of the System of Cities,” Population Association of America

Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, April 14-16.

_____, 1982, “International Banks in South America,” Applied Geography Conference, Washington, DC,

September 30-October 2.

_____, 1982, “Industrial Change in 19th Century Regional Industrial Systems,” Canadian-American Urban

Development Conference, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, August 24-28.

_____, 1982, “Southern Banking Centers and the System of Cities,” 78th Annual Meeting of the Association of

American Geographers, San Antonio, TX, April 25-28.

_____, 1981, “The Nineteenth Century Regional Industrial System,” Southern Regional Science Association

Meeting, Washington, DC, April 14-16.

_____, 1980, “The Connecticut Shore: A Nineteenth Century Regional Industrial Complex,” Eastern Historical

Geography Association Meeting, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, October 16-18.

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_____, 1980, “Connecticut as a Regional Industrial Complex,” New England-St. Lawrence Valley Geographical

Society Annual Meeting, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, October 10-11.

_____, 1980, “Economic Roles in the System of Cities,” Northeast Regional Science Association Meeting, Boston

University, Boston, MA, May 2-3.

_____, 1980, “Emergence of the American Manufacturing Belt in the Nineteenth Century,” 76th Annual Meeting of

the Association of American Geographers, Louisville, KY, April 13-16.

_____, 1979, “Integration of Frontier Urban Places into the United States System of Cities,” International

Conference for Historical Geographers, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, August 27-September 2.

_____, 1978, “Long Term United States City System Dynamics,” 74th Annual Meeting of the Association of

American Geographers, New Orleans, LA, April 9-12.

_____, 1977, “Emergence of a System of Regional Urban-Industrial Complexes in the Nineteenth Century United

States,” 73rd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Salt Lake City, UT, April 24-27.

_____, 1976, “Model of Urban Growth in a Nineteenth Century Industrial Region,” Eastern Historical Geography

Association Meeting, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, October 29-30.

_____, 1976, “Agglomeration Economies and Urban-Industrial Growth,” Mid-Continent Regional Science

Association Meeting, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, April 30-May 1.

_____, 1976, “Theoretical Explanation of Functional Town Classification Results,” Northeast Regional Science

Association Meeting, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 24-25.

_____, 1976, “External Economies and Urban-Industrial Growth,” 72nd Annual Meeting of the Association of

American Geographers, New York, NY, April 11-14.

_____, 1975, “A Critique of Pred‟s Model of Industrialization and Urban Size Growth,” New England-St. Lawrence

Valley Geographical Society Annual Meeting, New Haven, CT, October 10-11.

_____, 1975, “Central Connecticut: From Farm to Factory to Urban Pastoralism,” 71st Annual Meeting of the

Association of American Geographers, Milwaukee, WI, April 20-23.

_____, 1975, “Industrial Change and Urban Growth in the Nineteenth Century,” 71st Annual Meeting of the

Association of American Geographers, Milwaukee, WI, April 20-23.

_____, 1974, “Urban Industrial Growth in Nineteenth Century Central Connecticut,” Eastern Historical Geography

Association Meeting, Briarcliff College, Briarcliff Manor, New York, April 5-6.

_____, and Judith W. Meyer, 1973, “Community and Individualism: Generators of the Geographical City,” Eastern

Historical Geography Association Meeting, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, October 26-27.

Meyer, David R., 1973, “Evolution of a Noncentric Urban Region: Some Preliminary Considerations,” Middle

States Division Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA, October 12-13.

_____, 1973, “Urban Locational Analysis: A Paradigm in Need of Revolution,” 69th Annual Meeting of the

Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, GA, April 15-18.

_____, 1972, “Implications of Alternative Urban Strategies for Black Residential Choice,” 68th Annual Meeting of

the Association of American Geographers, Kansas City, MO, April 23-26.

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_____, 1971, “Differences Among Black Residential Areas: Some Observations and an Example,” Joint Meetings of

the Mid-Atlantic States and New England-St. Lawrence Valley Divisions of the Association of American

Geographers, Columbia University, New York, NY, October 29-30.

5j. Work in Progress

Paper on “Structural Changes in the Economy of Hong Kong since 1997” which is under review at China Review

Journal.

Paper on “Hong Kong‟s Transformation as a Financial Center” which is being considered for publication in an

edited book of papers from a conference at the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research, Hong Kong

Monetary Authority.

Paper on “The Challenges of Network Governance at the State Banks of China,” (co-author, Tal Levy)

I have a proposal, “The Networks of the Chinese Private Equity Investors of Hong Kong,” which I am circulating in

Hong Kong to Chinese private equity investors.

Drawing from interviews in my on-going National Science Foundation grant I am working on a book dealing with

how Asian financiers use their networks to do their job.

6. RESEARCH GRANTS

6a. Current Grants

2005-2008 Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Research Grant, Geography and Regional

Science Program: “The Financial Networks of Hong Kong,” GRS-0451945 ($199,902)

6b. Completed Grants

2005-2007 Office of Vice-President for Research Grant, Brown University: “Chinese Private Equity

Investors of Hong Kong” ($2,000)

2005-2007 Office of Vice-President for Research Grant, Brown University: “Job Mobility of Leading

Financiers in Hong Kong” ($2,000)

2001-2005 Principal Investigator, Salomon Faculty Research Award, Brown University ($10,000), “The

New Chinese Business Leaders in Hong Kong”

1995 Thomas J. Watson Jr., Institute for International Studies Travel Grant ($1,900)

1991 Research Grant, Center for the Comparative Study of Development, Brown University,

Providence, Rhode Island ($1,100)


Science Program: “Metropolitan Industrial Complexes in the 19th Century,” SES-9009285

($70,085)

1990-1991 University Funded Small Grant Program, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island ($800)

1987 Research Grant, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode

Island ($725)

1987 Consultant, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC


Science Program: “Spatial Dynamics of the American Manufacturing Belt, 1840-1880,”

SES-8319058 ($50,751)

1976 Faculty Travel Grant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

1975 Consultant, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey, for revised Graduate Record

Exam in Geography

1974-1978 Faculty Research Grant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

1972-1975 Consultant, Comparative Metropolitan Analysis Project funded by the National Science

Foundation and sponsored by the Association of American Geographers. Responsible for

Hartford/Connecticut Valley vignette ($2,007)

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1971-1972 Faculty Research Grant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

1971-1972 Consultant, Planning Board, City of Holyoke, Massachusetts, Community Renewal Program

1971 Faculty Growth Grant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

7. SERVICE

7(i) Service to the University (Brown University, September 1, 1981 to Present)

2007 Freshman Advisor

2007 Advisor for Sociology Concentration

2007 Advisor for Urban Studies Concentration

2007 Faculty Teaching Liaison to the Sheriden Center for Department of Sociology

2007 Faculty Associate, Watson Institute for International Studies

2007 Member of COE (Commerce, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship) Executive Committee

2007 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology

2007 Member of Search Committee for Organizational Studies, Department of Sociology



2006 Sophomore Advisor


2006 Member of Tenure and Promotion Review Committee for faculty member in Department of Sociology









2005 Member of Tenure and Promotion Review Committee for faculty member in Department of Sociology





2005 Three NCAA Exit Interviews

2004 Provost‟s Faculty Committee on Programs in Commerce, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship at Brown

University

2004 Faculty Liaison, Brown Women‟s Lacrosse



2004 Graduate Advisor, Department of Sociology





2004 Four NCAA Exit Interviews

2003 Provost‟s Faculty Committee on Programs in Commerce, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship at Brown

University

2003 Alternate Member of Affirmative Action Monitoring Committee




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2003 Chair of Tenure Review Committee for faculty member in Department of Sociology










2002 Chair of Tenure and Promotion Review Committee for faculty member in Department of Sociology

2002 Chair of Tenure Review Committee for faculty member in Department of Sociology









2001 Chair of Tenure and Promotion Review Committee for faculty member in Department of Sociology

2001 Promotion Committee for faculty member for Associate to Full Professor, Department of Sociology



2000 One year review evaluation of junior faculty member, Department of Sociology

2000 Promotion Committee for faculty member for Associate to Full Professor, Department of Sociology

2000 Co-chair of Colloquia Speaker Series, Department of Sociology

2000 Sabbatical, spring semester

1999 Director of the Urban Studies Program


1999 Co-Chair of Search Committee, Urban Studies Program and Department of Political Science

1999 Co-Chair of Search Committee, Urban Studies Program and Department of American Civilization

1999 Chair of Tenure and Promotion Committee, Urban Studies Program

1999 Member of Graduate Committee, Department of Sociology





1998 Co-Chair of Search Committee, Urban Studies Program and Department of Political Science

1998 Co-Chair of Search Committee, Urban Studies Program and Department of American Civilization

1998 Chair of Tenure and Promotion Committee, Urban Studies Program

1998 Chair of Self-Study and Supervision of External Review, Urban Studies Program



1998 Participated with Development Office to raise over $100,000 endowment

1998 Participated in Points on the Compass for first year students


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1997 Chair of Tenure Committee, Urban Studies Program





1996 Member of Tenure Committee, Department of Sociology

1995 Acting Director of the Urban Studies Program



1995 Member of Tenure Committee, Department of Sociology


1994 Member of Demography Faculty Search Committee, Department of Sociology



1993 Chair of Faculty Search Committee, Urban Studies

1993 Graduate Advisor and Chair of Graduate Committee, Department of Sociology


1992 Library Representative, Urban Studies

1992 Chair of Faculty Search Committee, Urban Studies





1990 Member of Social Science Data Center Committee


1990 Member of Faculty Senate Committee on the Status of Women




1989 Member of Faculty Senate Committee on the Status of Women




1988 Member of Faculty Search Committee, Urban Position, Department of Sociology





1986 Library Representative, Department of Sociology



1985 Library Representative, Department of Sociology

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1984 Chair of Transfer Credit Committee, Department of Sociology


1983 Chair of Colloquium Speakers, Urban Studies


1983 Member of Undergraduate Committee, Department of Sociology




1982 Chair of Colloquium Speakers, Urban Studies





University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 1, 1970-August 31, 1981

1981 Member of Department of Geology & Geography Equipment Committee

1981 Member of Grievance Committee, Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics


1980 Member of Campus Physical Planning Committee of the Faculty Senate



1979 Department Scheduling Official




1978 Member of Department Executive and Personnel Committee


1977 Member of Committee on Development of Geography Master‟s Degree Proposal

1977 Member of Department of Geology & Geography Executive and Personnel Committee


1976 Coordinator for Geography Honors Program


1976 Member of Department of Geology & Geography Space Planning Committee

1975 Member of Undergraduate Curriculum Revision Committee



1975 Chair of Department of Geology & Geography Space Planning Committee




1974 Chair of Department of Geology & Geography Space Planning Committee


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1973 Chair of Department Library Committee

1973 Member of Advisory Group on the Study of Urban Alternatives, Institute for Man and His Environment

1972 Department Library Representative

1972 Work-Study Supervisor

1972 Acting Chair, Department of Geology/Geography (Summer)

1972 Chair of Department Library Committee









7(ii) Service to the Profession

2007 Referee for Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure, University at Albany, New York.

2007 Journal Referee: Environment and Planning A; Sociological Quarterly; Urban Geography.

2007 Referee for the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (3 proposals).

2007 Referee of National Science Foundation Proposals: Geography and Regional Science Program;

Innovation and Organizational Change Program.

2007 Referee of book proposals: Johns Hopkins University Press; University of Pittsburgh Press.

2006 Referee for Promotion to Full Professor, University of Hong Kong.

2006 Journal Referee: Environment and Planning A; Journal of International Development; Studies in

Comparative International Development; Urban Geography.

2006 Referee of book proposal: University of Chicago Press.

2005 Journal Referee: Urban Studies.

2004 Session Chair: “Geographies of Development in Asia III: Regional Development in China,” 100th

Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA, March 14-19.

2004 Journal Referee: American Journal of Sociology; Environment and Planning A (2); Geographical

Review; Growth & Change; International Journal of Urban & Regional Research; Urban Affairs

Review; Urban Geography.

2004 Referee of two book proposals: Johns Hopkins University Press; Routledge.

2003 Journal Referee: Environment and Planning A (2); Growth & Change; Professional Geographer; Social

Forces.

2003 Referee of three book proposals: Routledge; Temple University Press; University of Chicago Press.

2002 Moderator of Session: “Where Cities Should Go in the Future,” Third Annual Thomas J.

Anton/Frederick Lippitt Conference, “The Future of Providence,” Brown University, Providence,

RI, September 26-27.

2002 Panel Member: “Conceptualizing Scale: Urban Geography, Reorganization of the State, and Urban

Governance,” Meeting of the Urban China Research Network, Working Group on Urban

Transformation in China and Reorganization of the State in an Era of Globalization, University of

Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, March 19.

2002 Journal Referee: Journal of Historical Geography; Social Forces; Urban Affairs Review; Urban

Geography.

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2002 Referee of National Research Council draft report.

2002 Referee of two book proposals: Johns Hopkins University Press; Temple University Press.

2001 Referee for Promotion to Full Professor, University of California, Berkeley; Referee for Tenure and

Promotion to Associate Professor, Georgia State University.

2001 Session Organizer and Chair: “What Drives Regional Economic Change?” Social Science History

Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL, November 15-18.

2001 Session Chairs: “Financial Geographies: Firms, Knowledges and Territoriality II,” and “Network and

Route Geographies: Historical GIS II,” 97th Annual Meeting of the Association of American

Geographers, New York, NY, February 27-March 3.

2001 Journal Referee: Professional Geographer; Social Forces.

2001 Referee of National Science Foundation Proposal: Sociology Program.

2000 Journal Referee: Economic Geography; Urban Affairs Review.

2000 Book Manuscript Referee: Cambridge University Press.

2000 Referee of National Science Foundation Proposal: Geography and Regional Science Program.

1999 Co-Editor, Journal of Historical Geography

1999 Journal Referee: American Sociological Review; Economic Geography; Journal of Historical

Geography; Journal of World System Research; Urban Geography (2); Urban Studies.

1999 Book Manuscript Referee: Cambridge University Press.

1999 Referee of National Science Foundation Proposal: Geography and Regional Science Program.

1998 Co-Editor, Journal of Historical Geography

1998 Session Chair and Discussant: “Geographies of Skill and Innovation,” Social Science History

Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL, November 19-22.

1998 Session Organizer and Chair: “The Shaping of America, 1850-1915,” 94th Annual Meeting of the

Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, March 25-29.

1998 Session Discussant: “Communication and the Organization of Firms, Cities, and Regions,” All-

University of California Group in Economic History Conference, Santa Clara University, San Jose,

CA, March 20-22.

1998 Member of the Program Committee, 94th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,

Boston, MA, March 25-29, 1998.

1998 Journal Referee: Social Science History; Urban Geography (3).

1998 Book Manuscript Referee: Johns Hopkins University Press.

1998 Referee of National Endowment for the Humanities Proposal.

1998 Referee for Promotion to Full Professor for faculty members in Department of Economics, University of

Massachusetts, Amherst, and Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine.

1997 Editor, Journal of Historical Geography (Editor for the Americas)

1997 Panelist: “Hong Kong Returns to China I: Geography, History, and Recent Development,” 93nd Annual

Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth, TX, April 1-5.

1997 Panelist: “Hong Kong Returns to China II: 1997 and Beyond,” 93nd Annual Meeting of the Association

of American Geographers, Fort Worth, TX, April 1-5.

1997 Session Chair: Eastern Historical Geography Association Meeting, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,

PA, September 25-28, 1997.

1997 Member of the Program Committee, 94th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,

to be held in Boston, MA, March 25-29, 1998.

1997 Journal Referee: Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Economic Geography; Growth

and Change; Social Forces (2); Urban Affairs Review

1997 Referee of National Science Foundation Proposal: Geography and Regional Science Program

1997 Referee for Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor for faculty member in Department of

Geography, Syracuse University


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1996 Session Chair: “Comparative International Development: Industrial Strategy and Policy,” 92nd Annual

Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte. NC, April 9-13.

1996 Session Discussant: “Comparative International Development: Trade Strategies and Foreign Investment,”

92nd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte. NC, April 9-13.

1996 Journal Referee: Annals of the Association of American Geographers (2); Competition and Change;

Economic Geography; Journal of Economic History; Population Research and Policy Review; Social

Forces

1996 Referee of National Science Foundation Proposals: Geography and Regional Science Program (2)


1995 Editorial Board, Urban Affairs Review

1995 Editorial Board, Annals of the Association of American Geographers

1995 Session Chair: “Historical Geography: Eastern United States,” 91st Annual Meeting of the Association of

American Geographers, Chicago, IL, March 14-18.

1995 Journal Referee: American Sociological Review; Annals of the Association of American Geographers

(7); Demography (2); Economic Geography; Journal of World System Research; Social Forces;

Urban Affairs Review; Urban Geography




1994 Session Discussant: “Institutional Determinants of Income Distribution and Growth,” Economic History

Association Meetings, Cincinnati, OH, October 7-9

1994 Session Chair: “Historical Geography,” 90th Annual Meeting of the Association of American

Geographers, San Francisco, CA, March 29-April 2

1994 Journal Referee: Annals of the Association of American Geographers (3); Economic Geography; Journal

of Economic History; Population Research and Policy Review; Social Forces; Urban Affairs

Quarterly (2); Urban Geography



1993 Session Organizer: “Metropolitan Industrial Complexes,” Social Science History Association Meetings,

Baltimore, MD, November 4-7

1993 Referee of National Science Foundation Proposals: Economics Program (1); Geography and Regional

Science Program (2)

1993 Journal Referee: Annals of the Association of American Geographers (2); Demography; Economic

Geography; Social Forces

1992 Rhode Island Representative to New England-St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society

1992 Member of Board of Directors of the Urban Geography Specialty Group, Association of American

Geographers

1992 Chair of Dissertation Proposal Committee of Urban Geography Specialty Group, Association of

American Geographers

1992 Member of Ad Hoc Awards Committee of Association of American Geographers

1992 Session Co-Organizer: “Starting the Dialog: The New Economic Geography and Historical Geography,”

Sponsored by Historical Geography and Industrial Geography Specialty Groups, 88th Annual

Meeting of the Association American Geographers, San Diego, CA, April 18-22

1992 Referee of National Science Foundation Proposal: Sociology Program

1992 Journal Referee: Connecticut History; Growth and Change; Social Forces; Sociological Forum; Urban

Affairs Quarterly


1991 Member of Board of Directors of Urban Geography Specialty Group, Association of American

Geographers

1991 Chair of Dissertation Proposal Committee of Urban Geography Specialty Group, Association of

American Geographers

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1991 Member of Ad Hoc Awards Committee of Association of American Geographers

1991 Session Chair: “Urban Systems,” 87th Annual Meeting of the Association American Geographers,

Miami, FL, April 13-17

1991 Session Discussant: “Regional Perspectives on Followership,” Economic History Association Meeting,

Boulder, CO, September 27-29

1991 Session Chair: “History and Philosophy of Geography,” Annual Meeting of New England-St. Lawrence

Valley Geographical Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, October 4-5


1991 Journal Referee: Growth and Change; Social Forces; Urban Affairs Quarterly



Geographers


1990 Journal Referee: Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Demography; Social Forces;

Urban Affairs Quarterly



Geographers


1989 Journal Referee: Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Journal of Economic History;

Professional Geographer; Social Forces; Urban Affairs Quarterly; Urban Geography (2)

1988 Journal Referee: Business History Review; Comparative Urban and Community Research; Economic

Geography; Journal of Economic History; Social Forces; Urban Affairs Quarterly (2); Studies in

Comparative International Development


1987 Session Discussant: “Capital Markets and Systems of Cities,” Economic History Association Annual

Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 18-20

1987 Journal Referee: Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Economic Geography (2);

Professional Geographer; Social Forces


1986 Session Chair: “Restructuring the Urban System,” 82nd Annual Meeting of the Association of American

Geographers, Minneapolis, MN, May 3-7

1986 Referee of National Science Foundation Proposals: Sociology Program (3)

1986 Journal Referee: Environment and Planning A; Journal of Historical Geography; Professional

Geographer; Technology and Culture; Urban Geography (2)

1985 Session Organizer: “Industrial Dynamics of American Cities,” 81st Annual Meeting of the Association of

American Geographers, Detroit, MI, April 21-24

1985 Session Discussant: “Sociology of Banking and Money,” American Sociological Association Annual

Meeting, Washington, DC, August 26-30


1985 Journal Referee: Urban Geography

1984 Referee of National Science Foundation Proposals: Geography and Regional Science Program;

Sociology Program

1983 Session Discussant: “Industry and Economic Development,” Sponsored by Industrial Geography

Specialty Group and IGU Commission on Industrial Systems, 79th Annual Meeting of the

Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 24-27

1983 Session Chair: “Historical Geography: Urban Structure,” 79th Annual Meeting of the Association of

American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 24-27

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1983 Session Organizer: “Sequences of Urban Development: Commerce and Industry in Expanding Urban

Systems,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, October 27-30

1983 Session Chair: “Quantitative and Mathematical Approaches to Geographic Problems,” New England-St.

Lawrence Valley Geographical Society Annual Meeting, Burlington, VT, November 4-5

1983 Journal Referee: Social Forces

1982 Session Chair: “Planning in Process,” New England-St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society Annual

Meeting, Portland, ME, November 5-6

1982 Referee for Book Proposal, Department of Geography Research Monograph Series, University of

Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1982 Journal Referee: Journal of Historical Geography

1981 Journal Referee: Urban Geography

1980 Session Chair: “Historical Urban Geography-Inventory and Prospect,” Eastern Historical Geography

Association Meeting, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, October 16-18


1980 Journal Referee: Economic Geography

1979 Session Discussant: “Property Taxation and Fiscal Zoning,” Northeast Regional Science Association

Meeting, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, May 18-20

1979 Referee of Book Proposal, University of Massachusetts Press


1979 Journal Referee: Professional Geographer; Sociology and Social Research

1978 Session Discussant: “Black Residential Structures,” 74th Annual Meeting of the Association of American

Geographers, New Orleans, LA, April 9-12


1977 Member of Nominating Committee, New England-St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society

1977 Session Chair: “New England and the Sea,” Eastern Historical Geography Association Meeting, Mystic

Seaport, Mystic, CT, September 16

1977 Journal Referee: Economic Geography; Geographical Review; Professional Geographer



1975 Contributing Editor in Geography, Urban Anthropology Newsletter

1975 Session Discussant: “Urban Structure,” Northeast Regional Science Association Meeting, University of

Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, April 18-19

1975 Journal Referee: Geographical Review; Social Science Quarterly

1974 Panelist for Delphi Project for Undergraduate Education in Geography at the University of Texas at

Dallas

1974 Contributing Editor in Geography, Urban Anthropology Newsletter

1974 Session Discussant: “Cities of the Eastern Seaboard II,” and Panel Member of Special Friday Evening

Session, Eastern Historical Geography Association Meeting, Briarcliff College, Briarcliff Manor,

NY, April 5-6

1974 Journal Referee: Economic Geography; Geographical Review

1973 Review of Park Plaza Environmental Impact Report of Boston Redevelopment Authority for Executive

Office of Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

7(iii) Service to the Community

2007 Volunteer, St. Louis Jazz Festival

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2002 Volunteer, St. Louis Arts Fair


2001 Volunteer, St. Louis Arts Fair

1998 Treasurer of Board of Directors, Northeastern Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services, Inc.






1992 Treasurer of Board of Directors and Co-Chair of Capital Fund Drive, Northeastern Connecticut Sexual

Assault Crisis Services, Inc.

1991 Treasurer of Board of Directors and Co-Chair of Capital Fund Drive, Northeastern Connecticut Sexual

Assault Crisis Services, Inc.



1988 Member of Board of Directors, Northeastern Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services, Inc.

1987 Member of Board of Directors, Northeastern Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services, Inc.

1975 Interviewed on “Environmental Monitor” program of WFCR radio, August 26 and September 2

1973 Member of School Committee, Atlantic District, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod



8. ACADEMIC HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONORARY SOCIETIES

1991 Masters of Arts, Ad Eundem, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

1975 Participant, Summer Professional Development Training Session on Multivariate Data Analysis,

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

1971 Participant, Education Professions Development Act Conference for Geography Teachers,

Airlie House, Warrenton, Virginia

1967-1970 National Defense Education Act Title IV Fellowship, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

1966-1967 National Science Foundation Traineeship, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois

1966 National Science Foundation Summer Fellowship, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale,

Illinois

1963-1965 Who‟s Who in American Colleges and Universities, Concordia Teachers College, River Forest,

Illinois

9. TEACHING

Spring 2007

Two courses released: Sociology (Director of Graduate Studies) and Urban Studies (heavy teaching load)

URBN 1970, Independent Reading and Research; 1 student

Total No. Students: 1

Fall 2007

SOC 1170, Corporations and Global Cities; 71 students

URBN 0210, The City; 64 students

URBN 1970; Independent Reading and Research; 1 student


Spring 2006

U.S. 187 (Sec. 23), Business Networks in Asia; 23 students

Soc 110, Introductory Statistics for Social Research; 149 students

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U.S. 191, Independent Reading and Research; 1 students

Soc 292, Reading & Research, 1 student


Fall 2006

Sabbatical leave

U.S. 191, Independent Reading and Research; 1 student


Spring 2005

U.S. 117, Corporations and Global Cities; 44 students

Soc 110, Introductory Statistics for Social Research; 164 students

U.S. 191, Independent Reading and Research; 2 students

Soc 191, Individual Research Project, 3 students



Fall 2005

U.S. 187 (Sec. 05), Downtown Development; 25 students

Soc 220, Social Capital and Social Networks; 11 students

U.S. 191, Independent Reading and Research; 1 student

Soc 198, Concentration Special Project; 1 student



THESIS ADVISING

Undergraduate

Chair of Urban Studies Honors Theses:

Etan Green, expected 2008

Carrie Nielson, 2007

Melissa Epstein, 2006

Louis Lipner, 2005

Talya Oberfield, 2005

Graduate

Member of Ph.D. Theses Committees

Elizabeth Belanger, American Civilization, 2006 (graduated)

Aaron Katz, Sociology, 2003-

Chair of M.A. Theses Committees

Nam Thanh Tran, Sociology, 2006 (graduated)

10. DATE: December 2007

VITAE: David Ralph Meyer · Ph.D. 1970 University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Dissertation: “Spatial Variation of Black Urban Households” (Geography) M.S. 1967 Southern Illinois

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