Prof. Dina Zinnes
Dina Zinnes is Professor Emeritus at University of Illinois, where she founded and directed the Merriam Laboratory for Analytic Political Research. Prior to moving to Illinois she served on faculty at Indiana. Holding degrees from Michigan and Stanford, Zinnes served as a special department editor at Journal of Conflict Resolution as an MA student (1959-61). During her career she served as editor of the American Political Science Review (1981-85), President of the International Studies Association (ISA) in 1980-1 (the first woman to be given this honor), the Peace Science Society (1989), was founder of the Scientific Study of International Processes (SSIP) section of the ISA, and served on the editorial boards of too many journals to mention.
Her research focused topically on interstate conflict and cooperation, but she is also well known for her pioneering work as a mathematical modeler as well as an event data analyst and producer. Zinnes published 10 books/monographs, more than 55 articles and chapters in edited volumes, and was (co-) PI on more than 20 major grants. She also directed 18 dissertations, including those by Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Brian Job, Phil Schrodt, Steve Majeski, Chuck Taber, Kelly Kadera and Mark Crescenzi. She further demonstrated her commitment to mentoring junior scholars via the Merriam Lab Workshops to which PhD students and Assistant Professors from around the world who were interested in rigorous theoretical and empirical modeling could apply to visit the lab and have their work critiqued.
For interview follow this link (38 minutes)
Her research focused topically on interstate conflict and cooperation, but she is also well known for her pioneering work as a mathematical modeler as well as an event data analyst and producer. Zinnes published 10 books/monographs, more than 55 articles and chapters in edited volumes, and was (co-) PI on more than 20 major grants. She also directed 18 dissertations, including those by Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Brian Job, Phil Schrodt, Steve Majeski, Chuck Taber, Kelly Kadera and Mark Crescenzi. She further demonstrated her commitment to mentoring junior scholars via the Merriam Lab Workshops to which PhD students and Assistant Professors from around the world who were interested in rigorous theoretical and empirical modeling could apply to visit the lab and have their work critiqued.
For interview follow this link (38 minutes)