WORK:

Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University Autumn 2007-Present

EDUCATION: 

Ph.D., 2007. The Ohio State University; Thesis Title: The Challenges of Political Conflict: A Cross-National Analysis of Terrorist Violence and Socio-Political Crisis

M.A., 1999, Sociology, The Ohio State University;  Thesis Title: The Structural Determinants Of The Global Adoption Of The Internet:  An Ecological Model Of Post-Industrialization

B.A. with Honors in Sociology and Philosophy, 1996, Hardin-Simmons University.

PUBLICATIONS:

Robison, Kristopher K. 2010. "Terror’s True Nightmare?  Reevaluating the Consequences of Terrorism on Democratic Governance" Terrorism and Political Violence 22(1):  62-86.

Robison, Kristopher K. 2010. “Unpacking the Social Origins of Terrorism: the Role of Women’s Empowerment in Reducing Terrorism.” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. 33(8): 735-756.

Robison, Kristopher K. and Edward M. Crenshaw. 2010. "Reevaluating the Global Digital Divide: Socio-Demographic and Conflict Barriers to the Internet Revolution." Sociological Inquiry 80(1):  34-62

Crenshaw, Edward M. and Kristopher K. Robison. 2010. "The Sociodemographic Determinants of Economic Growth: Age-Structure, Preindustrial Heritage, and Sociolinguistic Integration." Social Forces. 88(5): 2217-2240

Robison, Kristopher K., Edward M. Crenshaw and J. Craig Jenkins. 2006. "Ideologies of Violence: The Social Origins of Islamist and Leftist Transnational Terrorism." Social Forces. 84(4):2027-2046.

Crenshaw, Edward M. and   Kristopher K. Robison  .  2006. “Globalization and the Digital Divide:  The Roles of Structural Conduciveness and Global Connection in Internet Diffusion.” Social Science Quarterly. 87(1):  191-207.

Crenshaw, Edward M. and Kristopher K. Robison. 2006. “Jump Starting the Internet Revolution: How Global Connections Help the Diffusion of the Internet.” Journal of the Association of Information Systems. Special Issue on the Digital Divide.  7(1): 3.

Robison, Kristopher K. and Edward M. Crenshaw.  2002. “Cyber-Space and Post-Industrial Transformations: A Cross-National Analysis of Internet Development.” Social Science Research. 31(3): 334-363.

Crenshaw, Edward M. and Kristopher K. Robison 2000. “Diffusion and the Digital Divide” China’s Wired. 4(11).

Crenshaw, Edward M., Paxton, Pamela, Robison, Kristopher K., Morishima, Rumi.  2004. Westernization Comparative Panel Dataset, 1975-1995. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. www.icpsr.umich.edu

Paxton, Pamela, Crenshaw, Edward M., Morishima, Rumi, Robison, Kristopher K..  2004. Globalization Comparative Panel Dataset, 1975-1995. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.  www.icpsr.umich.edu

GRANTS:

National Science Foundation. Award # 0854256. "Political Violence as Communication". 2009-2011. PIS Edward. M. Crenshaw, J Craig Jenkins and Kristopher K. Robison. 

“The Ecology of Terrorist Organizations."  Project consultant.  PIs Jonathan Wilkenfield, Victor Asal, Edward M. Crenshaw, Gary LaFree, Venkatramanan S. Subrahmanian. 2008-2010.

Mershon International Studies Center Grant for Terrorism and Socio-Political Outcomes 2004

Ohio State University Departmental Summer Publishing Fellowship 2006

PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS:

 "Whither Postmodernism?"  2009. Des Moines, Iowa, March, Midwest Sociological Society Presentation.  

"Terrorism and Women's Empowerment."  Des Moines, Iowa, March, Midwest Sociological Society Presentation.  

"The Sociodemographic Determinants of Economic Growth: Age-Structure, Preindustrial Heritage, and Sociolinguistic Integration" Boston August 2008, ASA Presentation

 “Why is Terrorism Consequential? The role of Terrorism in Crisis and Fear”  2008. Midwest Sociological Society Presentation

 "The “Roots” of Transnational Terrorism: A Replication and Extension of Burgoon" New York, New York August 2007. ASA presentation.

 "Economic Development and Demography"  New York, New York, August 2007.

 "The Variety of Terror: Analytic Differences between Ethno-separatist, Religious and Leftist Terrorism." Spring 2007. ISA Presentation.

“Civil and State Terrorism: Terrorism’s Effects on States’ Respect for Human Rights” Kristopher K. Robison. Montreal, August 2006. ASA presentation.

 “New Civilizational War? International Terrorism in the Middle East, 1968-2002.” ASA presentation. San Francisco, August 2004. J. Craig Jenkins, Kristopher K. Robison and Edward M. Crenshaw.

“Globalization and the Digital Divide:  The Roles of Structural Conduciveness and Global Connection in Internet Diffusion.” Presentation at MISCR-CRITO Digital Divide Symposium with Edward M. Crenshaw. University of Minnesota August 2004.

“Measuring Globalization: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of a Multidimensional Concept.” ASA presentation 2003. Edward Crenshaw, Pamela Paxton, Rumi Morishima and Kristopher K. Robison.

"Demography and Development." with Professor Edward M. Crenshaw Ohio-State Initiative in Population Research Seminar January 2002

“Global Diffusion of the Internet: the Impact of Urban Primacy and Proto-Modernity.” ASA presentation. Chicago, August 2002.

“Cyber-Space and Post-Industrial Transformations” ASA presentation. Washington, D.C.,. August 2000.

“Cyber-Space and Post-Industrial Transformations: A Cross-National Analysis of Internet Development” with Professor Edward M. Crenshaw for Departmental Seminar  March 2000

 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Instructor, Contemporary Social and Sociological Theory. Northern Illinois University (Autumn 2007)

Graduate Teaching Associate, Department of Sociology, Ohio State University. (Autumn 2000; Winter 2001; Autumn 2002)

Research Assistant Department of Sociology and Mershon International Center for Professors Edward M. Crenshaw and Pamela M Paxton. Summer 2004 to Autumn 2004.

Research Assistant Department of Sociology and Mershon International Center for Professors Edward M. Crenshaw and Craig Jenkins.  Summer and Autumn 2005

Development of Globalization/Westernization Comparative Panel Dataset, 1975-1995 (ICPSR)

Project Manager, Political Violence Research Group, Department of Sociology Summer 2006-Summer 2007 

Independent Instructor, Department of Sociology, Ohio State University Sociology 597.01 “Contemporary World Societies: Global Issues and Globalization” (Spring 2003).

Independent Instructor, Department of Sociology, Ohio State University. Sociology 597.01 “Contemporary World Societies: Issues of Terror and Terrorism”  (Winter and Spring 2005). 

Independent Instructor, Department of Sociology, Ohio State University Sociology 367.01 “Urban Sociology ”  (Spring 2006).

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS:

• Research Interests
• Globalization and development
• Internationalization of telecommunications technology and usage
• Political violence, International Terrorism
• Macro-social theory

TEACHING INTERESTS:

• Collective Action/Social Movements; Conflict and Political Violence
• Globalization and Development
• Theories of Social Change
• Demography
• Contemporary and Classical Social Theory

MEMBERSHIPS:

ASA

CITSA (Communications and Information Technologies Section of ASA)

Peace, War and Social Conflict Section, ASA

Evolution and Society Section, ASA

REFERENCES: (available upon request)