David Richard Gibson (born 1969) is an American sociologist and associate professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame.
[1] His publication Talk at the Brink: Deliberation and Decision during the Cuban Missile Crisis won the 2013 Melvin Pollner Prize for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis.
Under the supervision of Peter Bearman along with advisors Randall Collins, and Harrison White, he completed his dissertation entitled Taking Turns and Talking Ties: Conversational Sequences in Business Meetings.
"[1] Likewise, Jane Mansbridge argues that Talk at the Brink "makes a major intellectual and scholarly contribution to our understanding of human behavior...The book's strongest lesson is how open and nonlinear important decisions can be.
The book received additional reviews in the American Journal of Sociology by Phaedra Daipha,[8] in The 49th Parallel by Scott Midgley,[9] in Perspectives on Politics by Frank Harvey,[10] and in Social Forces by Erik Schneiderhan.