Daniel J. Myers (born April 9, 1966, in Xenia, Ohio) is the Provost and Chief Academic Officer of American University in Washington, D.C. 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.