Myron Weiner was an American political scientist and renowned scholar of India, South Asia, internal and international migration, ethnic conflict, child labor, democratization, political demography, and the politics and policies of developing countries.
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Myron Weiner received a BSS degree from the City College of New York in 1951 and MA and PhD degrees from Princeton University in 1953 and 1955.
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Myron Weiner taught at Princeton and the University of Chicago before coming to MIT as an associate professor in 1961, where he worked for 38 years before retiring in April 1999.
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Myron Weiner was named the Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT in 1977.
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Professor Weiner served as a consultant to the World Bank, the Agency for International Development, the US State Department, and the US National Security Council.
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Myron Weiner was elected to the American Philosophical Society, and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Council on Foreign Relations, and a past president of the New England Association of Asian Studies.
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Myron Weiner held visiting appointments at Oxford University's Balliol College, Harvard University, Delhi University, Hebrew University and the University of Paris.
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Dr Myron Weiner was chair of the External Research and Advisory Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1996 until his death.
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Myron Weiner was the author or editor of 32 scholarly books and numerous peer-reviewed articles.
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Myron Weiner died of brain cancer on June 3,1999, at his home in Moretown, Vermont, at age 68.