
Biography
Stephen Meyers is an Associate Professor in Law, Societies & Justice; and International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is also core faculty in the Disability Studies Program and adjunct faculty in the Law School. Currently, Meyers is the Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Chair of the MA in International Studies program in the Henry M Jackson School of International Studies at the UW. In 2019, Meyers co-founded with Megan McCloskey the Disability Inclusive Development Initiative in the International Policy Institute at the Jackson School. The DIDI involves graduate and undergraduate students in applied research projects that advance disability human rights and disability inclusive international development. Meyers is the author of Civilizing Disability Society: The CRPD socializing grassroots disabled persons organizations in Nicaragua (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and more than a dozen peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in journals including Qualitative Sociology, Current History, Disability & Society, Disability Studies Quarterly, and Research in Social Science and Disability. He is also the co-author with Megan McCloskey of UNFPA’s Young Persons with Disabilities: Global Study on Ending Gender-based Violence and Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (2018) and UNESCO’s Violence and Bullying in Educational Settings: The experiences of young people and children with disabilities (2021). Currently, Meyers has two new books under contract. What is Global Disability Studies?, a monograph co-authored with Shixin Huang that will be forthcoming from the University of California Press, and Hierarchies of Disability Human Rights, an edited volume co-edited with Megan McCloskey and Gabor Petri that will be forthcoming from Routledge. Meyers holds a Ph.D in Sociology for the University of California, San Diego and Master degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Harvard University.
Research
Selected Research
- Meyers, S. (2019) Civilizing Disability Society: The UN Disability Convention and Grassroots Disabled Persons Organizations. Cambridge University Press, Disability Law & Policy Series.
- Meyers, S. (2022). “History and Divisions in Nicaragua’s Disability Rights Movement.” Current History. V.121 (832): 63–68
- Meyers, S. & M. McCloskey (2018). Young Persons with Disabilities: Global Study on Ending Gender-based Violence and Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. New York: UN Population Fund.
- Stephen Meyers. 2016. "NGO-Ization and Human Rights Law: The CRPD’s Civil Society Mandate." Laws: Special Edition on Disability Human Rights Law. 5(2) 21.
- Stephen Meyers. 2014. “The Social Model under the Shadow of the Revolution: Ex-combatants negotiating disability identity in Nicaragua.” Qualitative Sociology. 37(4): 403-424.
- Stephen Meyers. 2014. “Global Civil Society as Megaphone or Echo Chamber?: Formalizing voice in the international disability rights movement.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. 27(4): 459-476.
- Stephen Meyers and E. Lockwood. 2014. “A Tale of Two Civil Societies: Expectations regarding public resources and disabled persons organizations in Nicaragua and Uruguay.” Disability Studies Quarterly. 34(4). 2
- Stephen Meyers. 2014. “Disabled persons associations at the crossroads of two organizational environments: Grassroots groups as part of an international movement and a local civil society.” Research in Social Science and Disability: Environmental Contexts and Disability. 8: 3-31.
- Meyers, S. & M. McCloskey (2021). Violence and Bullying in Educational Settings: The experiences of young people and children with disabilities. Paris: UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000378061 Download PDF
- Meyers, S. & M. McCloskey (2021). Violence and Bullying in Educational Settings: The experiences of young people and children with disabilities. Paris: UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000378061 Download PDF