Daniel Myers, professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, was recently appointed Vice President and Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs in 2011. He formerly chaired the Department of Sociology at Notre Dame and was editor of Mobilization, the leading journal for research on social movements and contentious politics. He also served as associate dean in the College of Arts and Letters.
Dan’s recent work focuses on racial rioting in the 1960′s and 1970′s, 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.
