Rate My Professor Jeff Meyers JR

Jeff Meyers Jr. is an Associate Professor of History at the Kachemak Bay Campus of Kenai Peninsula College, University of Alaska Anchorage. He earned a B.A. from California Lutheran University in 2003, an M.A. from the University of Idaho in 2006, and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Idaho in 2015. His doctoral dissertation, "Crime and Culture in Chechnya: From the Russian Empire to the Second Chechen War," was published as the book The Criminal–Terror Nexus in Chechnya: A Historical, Social, and Religious Assessment by Lexington Books in 2017. This publication stems from his research on the historical, social, and religious aspects of criminality and terrorism in Chechnya from the Russian Empire era through the Second Chechen War.

Meyers specializes in modern history with an emphasis on the Soviet and post-Soviet Union and the history of crime and terrorism. He teaches general education history courses and upper-division courses ranging from Conspiracies and Secret Societies to the History of the Soviet Union and the Roman Empire, as well as political science courses. He serves on the University of Alaska Anchorage Honors Academic Board for the Global and Multicultural Studies Track. As Vice-President of the Alaska Historical Society and annual conference coordinator, he organizes events and programming focused on Alaska's history. In March 2022, Meyers participated in a roundtable hosted by the UAA Department of History on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, discussing Cold War impacts, post-Soviet Russia, parallels to actions in Chechnya, and Ukraine's media advantages in the conflict. His work bridges academic scholarship with public engagement on geopolitical history.