Daniel J. Myers (born April 9, 1966 in Xenia, Ohio) is a professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame. He is best known for his research 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.
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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'.
Myers' principle research interests are collective behavior and social movements. His current 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.
Myers serves as the chairperson of the Department of Sociology[1] at the University of Notre Dame, a position he has held since 2003. In addition, he holds the following positions at the university:
Myers serves as a Senior Fellow for the Phelps-Stokes Fund in Washington, D.C. (since 2001). He also serves on the Board of the Good Shepherd Montessori School (South Bend, Indiana).
Dr. Myers has received the following honors and awards: