Graduate Program
David Ortiz 
Areas of Interest
Collective Action and State Repression; Social Movements; Political Sociology; Conflict Resolution; Race and Ethnicity; Event History Analysis and Quantitative Research Methods.
Publications
Ortiz, David G., Daniel J. Myers, N. Eugene Walls, and Maria-Elena D. Diaz. 2005. “Where Do We Stand with Newspaper Data?” Mobilization 10(3).
Profile
Ortiz is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. His dissertation focuses on using event-history analysis to model violent and non-violent protests and their relationship with regime repression cross-nationally. He has been the recipient of several awards including the Midwest Sociological Society Outstanding Graduate Student Paper and the John J. Kane Memorial Award for Most Outstanding Graduate Student from the Sociology Department at the University of Notre Dame. He currently has a pre-doctoral position at the Center for the Study of Political Change of the University of Siena in Italy, where he is working on issues of European identity and their effects on political change (INTUNE Project).