{{Multiple issues|{{Notability|Academics|date=August 2024}} {{COI|date=October 2023|reason=Subject may be editing his own article}} {{Neutrality|date=October 2023|reason=Article appears to be written from a promotional perspective.}} {{BLP sources|date=October 2023|reason=Article contains mostly bare URLs and dead links; needs proper citations from reliable, independent sources.}}}} {{Short description|American academic}} '''Joseph F. Donnermeyer''' (born 5 December 1949) is an American academic. He is a Professor Emeritus at Ohio State University<!--Wikipedians do not use "The" as part of Ohio State's name; it is considered a marketing gimmick, and routinely deleted.-->, School of Environment and Natural Resources. His main subject is rural criminology, with a focus on Amish studies, especially on change in Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities.<ref>{{cite web |date=22 October 2013 |title=Crime & Justice Conference - Professor Emeritus Joseph F. Donnermeyer |url=http://crimejusticeconference.com/professor-emeritus-joseph-f-donnermeyer/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100748/http://crimejusticeconference.com/professor-emeritus-joseph-f-donnermeyer/ |archive-date=4 March 2016 |access-date=8 October 2015 |work=crimejusticeconference.com}}</ref>
==Career== Donnermeyer completed his B.A. in 1971 from Thomas More College, Kentucky, and both his M.A. (1974) and Ph.D. (1977) from the University of Kentucky.<ref name="osu.edu"/>
Donnermeyer's first appointment was as an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University, with primary responsibilities as a state specialist in community development. In 1979 he became assistant professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Ohio State University (OSU), where the National Rural Crime Prevention Center was established.<ref name="cv">{{Cite web |date=January 31, 2023 |title=Dr. Joseph F. Donnermeyer, Professor Emeritus, Rural Sociology and Environment Social Sciences Program |url=https://senr.osu.edu/sites/senr/files/imce/files/CVs/2023/vita.2023.Donnermeyer.pdf |access-date=August 20, 2024 |website=Ohio State University School of Environment and Natural Resources}}</ref> In 1999 he became assistant professor in the Department of Human and Community Resource Development at the same university, where the rural sociology program was moved.<ref name="osu.edu">{{cite web|url=http://senr.osu.edu/our-people/joseph-f-donnermeyer|title=Joseph F. Donnermeyer|website=Ohio State University School of Environment and Natural Resources|access-date=8 October 2015|archive-date=23 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923043534/http://senr.osu.edu/our-people/joseph-f-donnermeyer|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2010, Rural Sociology was moved again to the School of Environment and Natural Resources.<ref name="cv"/>
Donnermeyer is also an adjunct professor at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales and the Center for Violence Research at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. He is the founder and co-editor of the ''International Journal of Rural Criminology'' (IJRC), a journal co-sponsored by the International Society for the Study of Rural Crime, the Division of Rural Criminology of the American Society of Criminology, and the Rural Criminology Working Group of the European Society of Criminology.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About the Journal |url=https://ruralcriminology.org/index.php/IJRC/about |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=International Journal of Rural Criminology }}</ref> The first issue of IJRC was published in 2011, but it was only published sporadically until it became co-sponsored by the three professional groups.
Donnermeyer also founded another journal for the publication of scholarship about the Amish and related Anabaptist groups. The first journal was published through the OSU Knowledge Bank, with the inaugural issue published in 2013.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies |url=https://kb.osu.edu/communities/72f41632-f5b1-550b-8d3c-8e52975d296a |language=en}}</ref> This was eventually replaced by the ''Journal of Plain Anabaptist Communities'' (JPAC) in May 2019, and upgraded to the digital journal collection of OSU libraries. JPAC is now co-sponsored by the OSU libraries, the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, the Amish and Mennonite Heritage Center in Berlin, Ohio, and "Amish America", a blog produced by Erik Wesner.<ref name="osu.edu"/> The inaugural issue of JPAC was released in Summer 2020.
In the Autumn Semester of 2022, Donnermeyer became a visiting fellow at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies in Elizabethtown. His fellow lecture was entitled: "Keeping Track of Settlement and Population Growth of the Amish in North America."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Young Center Fellows Program |url=https://www.etown.edu/centers/young-center/fellows.aspx |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=Elizabethtown College }}</ref>
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