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Daniel J. Myers (born April 9, 1966, in
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) is the President of
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in
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, Pennsylvania and a professor of sociology. His best known research is on the urban unrest of the 1960s and the media coverage of those riots, specializing in identifying the patterns of unrest diffusion. He has written several books and articles, and is co-author of the best-selling sociological
social psychology Social psychology is the methodical study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Although studying many of the same substantive topics as its counterpart in the field ...
textbook, ''Social Psychology''.


Early life and education

Daniel Myers was born in
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, a town of approximately 20,000. His father was a Baptist minister. Myers moved throughout the United States during his childhood, including to New York, Pittsburgh, Indiana, Ohio, and West Virginia. Myers graduated from high school in
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, and then graduated from The
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in
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, in 1988 with a B.A. in
political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...
and in 1991 with a M.A. in higher education and
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. In 1995, Myers graduated from the
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with a M.S. in sociology, followed by a PhD in sociology in 1997. He wrote his dissertation on 'Diffusion Models for Riots and Other Collective Violence'.


Research areas

Myers' principal research interests are collective behavior and social movements. His most recent work focuses on racial rioting in the 1960s and 1970s,
deterministic Determinism is the metaphysical view that all events within the universe (or multiverse) can occur only in one possible way. Deterministic theories throughout the history of philosophy have developed from diverse and sometimes overlapping mo ...
and
stochastic Stochastic (; ) is the property of being well-described by a random probability distribution. ''Stochasticity'' and ''randomness'' are technically distinct concepts: the former refers to a modeling approach, while the latter describes phenomena; i ...
models of diffusion for collective violence, mathematical models of
collective action Collective action refers to action taken together Advocacy group, by a group of people whose goal is to enhance their condition and achieve a common objective. It is a term that has formulations and theories in many areas of the social sciences ...
, media coverage of protests,
demonstrations Demonstration may refer to: * Demonstration (acting), part of the Brechtian approach to acting * Demonstration (military), an attack or show of force on a front where a decision is not sought * Protest, a public act of objection, disapproval or d ...
, and riots, and game theoretic analyses of small group
negotiation Negotiation is a dialogue between two or more parties to resolve points of difference, gain an advantage for an individual or Collective bargaining, collective, or craft outcomes to satisfy various interests. The parties aspire to agree on m ...
.


Former positions

Myers as Provost and Chief Academic Officer at American University in Washington, D.C., Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. Before that he held a number of positions at the University of Notre Dame including Vice President and Associate Provost, Professor of Sociology, and Director of Research and Faculty Development at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He founded the Center for the Study of Social Movements and served as editor of Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research. Myers also served as a Senior Fellow for the Phelps-Stokes Fund in Washington, D.C., was vice-president of the Board of the South Bend Symphony Orchestra, and was President of Board of the Good Shepherd Montessori School (South Bend, Indiana).


Honors and awards

Dr. Myers has received the following honors and awards: * ''Sheedy Teaching Award'' from the Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters in 2007. * ''Best Published Article'' from the
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Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements in 2005, co-authored with Beth Schaefer Caniglia. * Elected to
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in 2004. * ''Kaneb Teaching Award'' for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the
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in 2002. * ''Katherine DuPre Lumpkin Dissertation Award'' for Outstanding Dissertation in Sociology from the
University of Wisconsin, Madison A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Univ ...
in 1998. * ''Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award'' for the best paper written by a graduate student in the social sciences from the
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in 1996. * Runner-up for the ''Graduate Student Paper Competition'' from the
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Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements in 1995. * ''Teaching Leadership Award'' from
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in 1993.


References


External links


Notre Dame Arts and Letters faculty bio

Center for the Study of Social Movements

Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

Conant Associates

Mobilization (journal)

Phelps Stokes Fund

Curriculum Vitæ
{{DEFAULTSORT:Myers, Daniel J. American sociologists People from Xenia, Ohio University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences alumni 1966 births Living people University of Notre Dame faculty American University faculty Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology alumni