Name Daniel Myers | ||
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Education University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ohio State University |
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 textbook, Social Psychology.
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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 from 2003-2007, all at the University of Notre Dame. In addition, he held 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: