Daniel J. Myers
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Daniel J. Myers (born April 9, 1966 in Xenia, Ohio) is a professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1997. Myers is best known for his research on the urban unrest of the 1960s, the media coverage of those riots, and the patterns of diffusion within the wave. He has also published books on urban conditions and poverty (Toward a More Perfect Union: The Governance of Metropolitan America and The Future of Urban Poverty) with co-author, Ralph Conant. He also became an author (with John Delamater and H. Andrew Michener) on the fifth edition of the best-selling sociologically-oriented social psychology text book, Social Psychology. Myers is editor of the journal Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research and the Director of the Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change at the University of Notre Dame. He also serves on the Board of the Good Shepherd Montessori School (South Bend, Indiana).