Daniel J. Myers

Daniel J. Myers (born April 9, 1966, in Xenia, Ohio) is the Provost of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a professor of Social and Cultural Sciences. Formerly Vice President and Associate Provost for Faculty affairs and a professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, he left to become Provost at Marquette in 2015. 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 text book, Social Psychology.

Education

Dan Myers graduated from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, in 1988 with a B.A. in political science and in 1991 with a M.A. in higher education and student affairs. In 1995, Myers graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison with a M.S. in sociology, followed by a Ph.D. in sociology in 1997 and 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 and stochastic models of diffusion for collective violence, mathematical models of collective action, media coverage of protests, demonstrations, and riots, and game theoretic analyses of small group negotiation.

Former positions

Myers served as Vice President and Associate Provost from 2011 to 2015, Associate Dean of the College of Art and Letters from 2008 to 2011, the Director Research and Faculty Development at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies from 2007-2008 and the chairperson of the Department of Sociology[1] at the University of Notre Dame from 2003-2007, all at the University of Notre Dame. In addition, he helds the following positions:

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:

References

  1. ↑ "Honors and Alcolades 2005-2006". University of Notre Dame. Archived from the original on September 15, 2006. Retrieved December 19, 2006.
  2. ↑ "Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies:Faculty". University of Notre Dame. Archived from the original on December 12, 2006. Retrieved December 19, 2006.
  3. ↑ http://al.nd.edu/about/the-faculty/sheedy-award/award-recipients/
  4. ↑ "Critical Mass Bulletin: Newsletter of the Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements" (PDF). American Sociological Association. Fall 2005. Retrieved December 19, 2006.
  5. ↑ "Kaneb Teaching Awards:College of Arts and Letters". University of Notre Dame. Retrieved December 19, 2006.

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