David Apter
| David E. Apter | |
|---|---|
| Born | David Ernest Apter December 18, 1924 Brooklyn, New York |
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| Occupation | Political scientist |
| Known for | Sociology of developing nations |
| Notable work | The Politics of Modernization |
David Ernest Apter (December 18, 1924 – May 4, 2010) was an American political scientist and sociologist. He was Henry J. Heinz Professor of Comparative Political and Social Development and Senior Research Scientist at Yale University.
He was born on December 18, 1924. He taught at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago (where he was the Executive Secretary of the Committee for the Comparative Study of New Nations), the University of California, (where he was director of the Institute of International Studies), and Yale University, where he held a joint appointment in political science and sociology and served as Director of the Social Science Division, Chair of Sociology, and was a founding fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1966.[1]
He was a Guggenheim Fellow, a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, California, a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, as well as a Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer. He did field research on development, democratization and political violence in Africa, Latin America, Japan, and China.
In 2006 he was the first recipient of the Foundation Mattei Dogan prize for contributions to Interdisciplinary research.[2]
Apter died in his home in North Haven, Connecticut, from complications due to cancer on May 4, 2010.[3]
Bibliography
Monographs
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Essay collections
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Edited volumes
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References
- Articles with hCards
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- 1924 births
- 2010 deaths
- Northwestern University faculty
- University of Chicago faculty
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- Yale University faculty
- Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
- American political scientists
- Antioch College alumni
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Guggenheim Fellows
