Daniel Ritter received his PhD in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2010 after his completing his dissertation, “Why the Iranian Revolution was Nonviolent: Internationalized Social Change and the Iron Cage of Liberalism,” under the guidance of Mounira Charrad and Lester Kurtz. He spent the 2010/11 and 2011/12 academic years at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, first as a Max Weber Fellow and then as a research fellow on Professor della Porta’s “Mobilizing for Democracy” project. Since August 2012 he is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University. His main research interests are in nonviolent revolutions and social movements, political sociology, and comparative historical methods. He is currently writing a book on nonviolent revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa titled States and Nonviolent Revolutions (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).

Research interests: nonviolence, revolutions, comparative history, comparative politics, and international relations