Yale University Political Science

David Apter

David Apter

David Apter, Ph.D., Princeton University, 1954, is Henry J. Heinz II Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Sociology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has had research grants from the Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie Corporation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. He has been awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award by the American Political Science Association, and has been Halevy Professer at the Fondation des sciences pollitiques, in Paris, and a Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, St. Anthony's College, Oxford, All Souls College, Oxford, Center for Advanced Study, Princeton, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and a Fulbright Lecturer. Recent publications include Legitimization of Violence, Macmillan Press, 1997; Political Protest and Social Change, Macmillan Press, 1996; "The New Europe and the Politics of Exclusion," Gulbenkian Foundation, 1998, "Structure, Contingency and Choice" in D. Keates and J. Scott, (eds. Schools of Thought: Twenty Five Years of Interpretive Social Science, Princeton University Press, 2001, and "An African Tragedy, Dissent", Spring 2002).

Campus address: 80 Sachem Street, Room 102
Phone: 203.432.5281
Email: david.apter@yale.edu.