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Dana Ward

b. 1949

American academic

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Born 1949. Dana Ward is an American political scientist, psychologist and university teacher.

Dana Ward is professor emeritus of Political Studies at Pitzer College, where he founded and maintains the Anarchy Archives and where he taught from 1982 through 2012. He was the Executive Director of the International Society of Political Psychology from July 1998 to the Fall of 2004.

Biography Ward received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in political science from the University of Chicago, and a double PhD in political science and psychology from Yale University. Ward also served on the Psychology faculty at the Claremont Graduate University. Ward taught at Saint Joseph's University during autumn 1981 through to spring 1982, at Ankara University in 1986 on a Fulbright Fellowship, at the Hopkins–Nanjing Center, from the fall of 1990 through the spring of 1992, and at the Miyazaki International College in Miyazaki, Japan, from January 1995 through January 1997.

Publications "Political reasoning and cognition: a Piagetian view," Review of "Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman," Mel Bucklin, Director, American Historical Review, October 2004, pp. 1248–49. "Occupy, Resist, and Produce: Workers Take Control in Argentina", Divergences Vol.1, 4 (November 2006) "Herbert Read's Aesthetic Politics: Art and Anarchy," in "Alchemy in Clarens: Kropotkin and Reclus, 1877–1881." in New Perspectives on Anarchism. eds., Nathan Jun and Shane Wahl, Lexington Books, 2010. "Anarchist Culture on the Cusp of the 20th Century", in Without Borders or Limits: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Anarchist Studies. Edited by Jorell A. Meleéndez Badillo and Nathan J. Jun. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp. 107–122

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Yale University, University of Chicago, University of California, Berkeley

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American academic

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Dana Ward was born on 23 August 1949 in San Jose.

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