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Daniel J. Myers, Professor of Sociology and Director of Research and Faculty Development. Dan Myers is Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame and Director of Research and Faculty Development at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.  He is also Director of the Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change and Editor of Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research. He received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1997. His main areas of interest include protest, collective violence, game theory, and methodology. He has published articles in the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Mobilization. He is also author of Toward a More Prefect Union: The Governance of Metropolitan America (with Ralph Conant) and Social Psychology (with John DeLamater).  He is currently finishing work on an edited volume concerned with sameness and difference in collective identity negotiation (with Jo Reger and Rachel Einwohner) and working on a book re-examining the riots of the 1960s and the diffusion of collective violence more generally.  Daniel.J.Myers.33@nd.edu Website

Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Assistant Director. Austin is a graduate student in the Sociology Department at the University of Notre Dame. His long-term research agenda investigates resistance to oppression, in particular resistance to modern slavery. His current research projects include an investigation into the role of democratic rhetoric among leaders of social movements, a study of the State Department's sanctioning system for violators of human trafficking conventions, and an analysis of the normative roots of evangelical participation in the contemporary anti-slavery movement. Prior to his doctoral work he taught in the Political Science department at San Diego State University. Austin received his masters degree from the Graduate School of International Studies and is the National Outreach Coordinator of Free the Slaves, a Washington DC-based human rights group. He is also the Assistant Editor of Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research. Afitzpa3@nd.edu

Teresa Ghilarducci, Professor of Economics and Director of Higgins Labor Research Center. Professor Teresa Ghilarducci is a member of the economics faculty and director of the Higgins Labor Research Center at the University of Notre Dame.  Her new book, underway, The End of Retirement, for Princeton University Press, investigates how American workers can maintain entitlement to retirement and restore retirement income security. Her 1992 book Labor's Capital: The Economics and Politics of Employer Pensions, MIT Press, won an Association of American Publishers award in 1992 for one of the best economics and business books published that year. She co-authored a book on labor union pensions, Portable Pension Plans for Casual Labor Markets in 1995. Professor Ghilarducci publishes on labor markets, women workers, pensions, and Social Security in referred journals, other journals, magazines, and newspapers. She appears regularly on TV and radio programs and testifies frequently before the U.S. Congress and other agencies. Professor Ghilarducci is a public trustee of the GM Retiree Defined Contribution Health Trust Fund Board.  President Clinton appointed her to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's Advisory Board where she served from 1995-2002. Governor O’Bannon appointed her to the Board of Trustees of the State of Indiana’s Public Employees’ Retirement Fund in 1997 where she served until 2002.  Her research has been funded by the Alfred E. Sloan Foundation, Retirement Research Foundation, U.S. Department of Labor, and the Ford Foundation. Teresa Ghilarducci earned her Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Website

Rory McVeigh, Associate Professor of Sociology. Rory joined the Sociology department at Notre Dame in the fall of 2002 after teaching for five years at Skidmore College. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina in 1996. His research examines macrostructural influences on various forms of political action. Rory has published articles on a wide range of topics including the United Farm Workers movement, the Ku Klux Klan, ballot initiative voting in Colorado, and protest participation among representative samples of Americans. Current research projects include studies of the Ku Klux Klan’s influence on presidential politics in the 1920s, structural influences on mobilization of contemporary hate groups, and relationships between crime, non-voting, and organized protest. He is also beginning work, with Michael Welch, on a major study of hate crimes in the United States. Rory.M.McVeigh.3@nd.edu Website

Jackie Smith, Associate Professor of Sociology. Jackie earned her Ph.D. in International Relations at the University of Notre Dame (1995). From 1997 to 2005 she worked as assistant and associate professor in sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she helped develop that program's emphasis in global sociology. In 2004-05, she was a visiting scholar at McMaster University's Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition. Smith is known for her research on the transnational dimensions of social movements, exploring how global economic and political integration influences the ways people engage in politics. Her forthcoming book on contemporary global activism is entitled Changing the World: Struggles for Global Democracy. Smith has also written more than thirty articles and co-edited three books on the subject: Coalitions Across Borders: Transnational Protest in a Neoliberal Era (with Joe Bandy); Globalization and Resistance: Transnational Dimensions of Social Movements (with Hank Johnston); and Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State (with Charles Chatfield and Ron Pagnucco). Her current work, which focuses on contemporary activism for global economic justice, has taken her to many sites of global organizing, including Prague, Quebec City, and Porto Alegre. jsmith40@nd.edu Website

Erika Summers-Effler, Assistant Professor of Sociology. Erika’s areas of interest include religion and social change, social movements, theory, and culture. Her publications include a Sociological Theory (2002) article on the micro foundations of social change, a Sex Roles (2004) article on gender and the body, and two forthcoming articles in Advances in Group Processes on the social foundations of the self and the potential for social change. She is currently working on a book based on a comparative ethnography of two altruistic social movement organizations. Erika.M.Summers-Effler.1@nd.edu Website