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Overview

KerryAnn O'Meara is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with significant contributions to education, gender studies, social psychology, political science and international relations, and safety research.

The scientist's work engages with several main topics including higher education research studies, gender diversity and inequality, mentoring and academic development, diversity and career in medicine, evaluation of teaching practices, career development and diversity, and higher education governance and development.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Nudging Toward Diversity: Applying Behavioral Design to Faculty Hiring" (2020), published in Review of Educational Research
  • "Gendered and Racialized Perceptions of Faculty Workloads" (2021), published in Gender & Society
  • "Leaving the Institution or Leaving the Academy? Analyzing the Factors that Faculty Weigh in Actual Departure Decisions" (2022), published in Research in Higher Education
  • "Do Rubrics Live up to Their Promise? Examining How Rubrics Mitigate Bias in Faculty Hiring" (2023), published in The Journal of Higher Education
  • "Making faculty work visible: An equity-minded approach" (2021), published in New Directions for Higher Education

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Research in Higher Education, Equity & Excellence in Education, SSRN Electronic Journal, Review of Educational Research, and Gender & Society.

They collaborate regularly with other researchers, including Dawn Culpepper, Lindsey Templeton, Damani K. White-Lewis, Joya Misra, and Audrey J. Jaeger, indicating interdisciplinary and collaborative contributions to their fields of study.

Best Publications

  • Faculty Careers and Work Lives: A Professional Growth Perspective

    KerryAnn O'Meara;Aimee LaPointe Terosky;Anna Neumann

  • Asked More Often: Gender Differences in Faculty Workload in Research Universities and the Work Interactions That Shape Them:

    KerryAnn O’Meara;Alexandra Kuvaeva;Gudrun Nyunt;Chelsea Waugaman

  • Uncovering the Values in Faculty Evaluation of Service as Scholarship

    Kerry Ann O'Meara

  • Faculty priorities reconsidered : rewarding multiple forms of scholarship

    KerryAnn O'Meara;R. Eugene Rice

  • ENCOURAGING MULTIPLE FORMS OF SCHOLARSHIP IN FACULTY REWARD SYSTEMS: Does It Make a Difference?

    Kerry Ann O'Meara

  • Faculty Agency: Departmental contexts that matter in faculty careers

    Corbin M. Campbell;KerryAnn O’Meara

  • Faculty Sense of Agency in Decisions about Work and Family

    KerryAnn O'Meara;Corbin M. Campbell

  • The Role of Emotional Competencies in Faculty-Doctoral Student Relationships

    KerryAnn O'Meara;Katrina Knudsen;Jill Jones

  • Preparing Future Faculty for Community Engagement: Barriers, Facilitators, Models, and Recommendations

    KerryAnn O'Meara;Audrey J. Jaeger

  • Inside the Panopticon: Studying Academic Reward Systems

    KerryAnn O’Meara

  • Studying the Professional Lives and Work of Faculty Involved in Community Engagement

    KerryAnn O’Meara;Lorilee R. Sandmann;John Saltmarsh;Dwight E. Giles

  • To Heaven or Hell: Sensemaking about Why Faculty Leave

    KerryAnn O'Meara;Andrew Lounder;Corbin M. Campbell

  • The Pursuit of Prestige: The Experience of Institutional Striving from a Faculty Perspective

    KerryAnn O'Meara;Alan Bloomgarden

  • An Integrated Model for Advancing the Scholarship of Engagement: Creating Academic Homes for the Engaged Scholar

    Lorilee R. Sandmann;John Saltmarsh;KerryAnn O'Meara

  • Enabling possibility: Women associate professors’ sense of agency in career advancement.

    Aimee LaPointe Terosky;KerryAnn O'Meara;Corbin M. Campbell

  • Motivation for Faculty Community Engagement: Learning from Exemplars

    KerryAnn O'Meara

  • Graduate Education and Community Engagement

    KerryAnn O'Meara

  • Service-Learning Is ... How Faculty Explain Their Practice

    KerryAnn O’Meara;Elizabeth K. Niehaus

  • Constrained Choices: A View of Campus Service Inequality From Annual Faculty Reports

    KerryAnn O’Meara;Alexandra Kuvaeva;Gudrun Nyunt

  • Faculty Role Integration and Community Engagement: Harmony or Cacophony?

    Alan H. Bloomgarden;Kerry Ann O'Meara

  • Aligning Faculty Reward Systems and Development to Promote Faculty and Student Growth

    KerryAnn O'Meara;Larry Braskamp

  • Department Conditions and Practices Associated with Faculty Workload Satisfaction and Perceptions of Equity.

    KerryAnn O’Meara;Courtney Jo Lennartz;Alexandra Kuvaeva;Audrey Jaeger

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