Daniel J. Myers

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.

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' 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.

Current positions

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:

Director, Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change (since 2006)
Editor, Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research ISSN 1086-671X
Senior Executive Fellow, College of Arts and Letters (since 2006)
Faculty Fellow, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies^[2] (since 2000)
Faculty Affiliate, Gender Studies (since 2003)

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).

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.^[3]
Best Published Article^[4] from the American Sociological Association Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements in 2005, co-authored with Beth Schaefer Caniglia.
Elected to Alpha Kappa Delta in 2004.
Kaneb Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching^[5] from the University of Notre Dame in 2002.
Katherine DuPre Lumpkin Dissertation Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1998.
Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award for the best paper written by a graduate student in the social sciences from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1996.
Runner-up for the Graduate Student Paper Competition from the American Sociological Association Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements in 1995.
Teaching Leadership Award from The Pew Charitable Trusts in 1993.

References

↑ "Honors and Alcolades 2005-2006". University of Notre Dame. Archived from the original on September 15, 2006. Retrieved December 19, 2006.
↑ "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.
↑ http://al.nd.edu/about/the-faculty/sheedy-award/award-recipients/
↑ "Critical Mass Bulletin: Newsletter of the Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements". American Sociological Association. Fall 2005. Retrieved December 19, 2006.
↑ "Kaneb Teaching Awards:College of Arts and Letters". University of Notre Dame. Retrieved December 19, 2006.