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Daniel J. Myers
Born (1966-04-09) April 9, 1966 (age 58)
Xenia, Ohio
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationOhio State University
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison
Known forResearch on the urban unrest of the 1960s
AwardsSheedy Teaching Award
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
InstitutionsMisericordia University
Thesis Diffusion Models for Riots and Other Collective Violence
Website[1]

Daniel J. Myers (born April 9, 1966, in Xenia, Ohio) is the President of Misericordia University in Dallas, 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 textbook, Social Psychology.[1]

Early life and education

Daniel Myers was born in Xenia, Ohio, 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.[2] Myers graduated from high school in Zanesville, and then 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. 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 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 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.[3] 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.[4] 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:

References

  1. ^ "Subscribe to Alerts Myers Appointed as Fifteenth President of Misericordia University". Archived from the original on 2021-02-23. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
  2. ^ Gregg Sangillo (February 26, 2019). "An Interview with Provost Daniel Myers". American University. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
  3. ^ "Daniel J. Myers Named American University Provost". News Wise. News Wise. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Vice President and Associate Provost Daniel Myers appointed provost at Marquette University". Notre Dame News. University of Notre Dame.
  5. ^ "Award Recipients // College of Arts and Letters // University of Notre Dame". Archived from the original on 2013-11-12. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
  6. ^ "Critical Mass Bulletin: Newsletter of the Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements" (PDF). American Sociological Association. Fall 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 29, 2007. Retrieved December 19, 2006.
  7. ^ "Kaneb Teaching Awards:College of Arts and Letters". University of Notre Dame. Archived from the original on September 1, 2006. Retrieved December 19, 2006.
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