Douglas Meyer is a writer and educator. He was a professor emeritus of geography at Eastern Illinois University.
Education
Douglas Meyer attended Concordia Teachers College (now Concordia University Chicago), where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Education in 1960. He also received a Master of Arts at Wayne State University in 1968 and a Doctor of Philosophy at Michigan State University in 1970.
Career
Douglas Meyer is a former professor of geography at Eastern Illinois University. He served there until 2000. Since his retirement, Meyer has traveled extensively in the United States, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
In addition to his educational career, Douglas Meyer is a writer. He is currently a co-author of Common Houses in America's Small Towns: The Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley, with John Jakle and Robert Bastian, and Pictorial Landscape History of Charleston, Illinois, with Nancy Sue Easter Schick, and the author of the book Making the Heartland Quilt: A Geographical History of Settlement and Migration in Early-Nineteenth-Century Illinois.