Английская Википедия:David D. Laitin
David D. Laitin (born in 1945)[1] is the James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science in the School of Humanities and Science at Stanford University.[2] He is a comparative politics scholar who has written works on civil war,[3] ethnic identity, culture and nationalism.[4] He is known for his application of rational choice to the study of ethnic conflict,[3] and for bridging a gap between ethnography and rational choice.[5]
He was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in 2021.[6] He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences.[7] Before joining Stanford University, he was a professor in the political science department at the University of Chicago.[7]
In 1986, he published a book about the Yoruba in Nigeria, Hegemony and Culture: The Politics of Religious Change Among the Yoruba.[7] Laitin studied Russian and lived with a Russian family in Estonia for a year.[7] The experiences formed the basis of his 1998 book Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad.[7] In the 1990s and 2000s, Laitin published several highly influential works on ethnicity with James Fearon.[7][4]
Early life and education
Laitin was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1945.[4] He grew up in a Jewish family in Flatbush, Brooklyn.[8][7] He is the grandson of émigrés from Russia and Austria.[7] In 1967, he was awarded an undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College.[7] While at Swarthmore, he took a class alongside fellow students Margaret Levi and Peter Katzenstein, who would both go on to become prominent political scientists.[9]
He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from University of California at Berkeley, where he did his dissertation under the guidance of Ernst Haas,[2] Hanna Pitkin,[2] and Kenneth Waltz.[10] During his time at Berkeley, Laitin served with the Peace Corps in Somalia and Grenada.[7] Laitin has said that this decision was in part motivated by seeking to avoid the Vietnam draft.[9] Laitin's experiences in Somalia influenced his dissertation and his 1977 book Politics, Language and Thought: The Somali Experience.[7]
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