Kim Creasap is the director of program administration and evaluation for the Kettering Foundation. She collaborates with research and program staff to evaluate the foundation’s diverse portfolio of programs, supporting the foundation’s commitment to evidence-based decision-making and continuous learning. Creasap explores creative, narrative-driven methods and data analysis to understand what democracy means to people and how to inspire the public to embrace and defend democracy. 

Prior to joining the foundation, Creasap was director of the Susan Hirt Hagen Center for Civic and Urban Engagement at Wittenberg University. She also served as the inaugural director of the Office of Gender & Sexuality at Denison University and was a faculty member in sociology at both Colgate University and Wake Forest University. Creasap has held visiting researcher positions in Oslo, Stockholm, and Amsterdam, conducting research at the intersection of politics and culture in Europe. 

Creasap’s writing, which explores how people imagine democratic futures and how social movements experiment with democratic practices in Europe and the US, has appeared in the Annual Review of Sociology, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, and Social Movement Studies. She is also the author of Making a Scene: Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden (Temple University Press 2021). Her expertise is in social movements, art and music scenes, urban geographies, gender, and sexuality. 

Creasap holds a BA in international studies from Bowling Green State University, an MA in women’s studies from Eastern Michigan University, and a PhD in sociology from the University of Pittsburgh.