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. 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...