{"id":189,"date":"2020-07-21T17:32:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T17:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalprojects.davidson.edu\/jewishidentity\/?page_id=189"},"modified":"2020-10-13T19:58:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T19:58:29","slug":"dr-ron-linden","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalprojects.davidson.edu\/jewishidentity\/dr-ron-linden\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ron Linden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A lot of college catalogs mention the church identity of their school, so I didn’t know if it really meant something [in Davidson’s case]. Nobody had told me anything about it as an exclusionary principle, but I did learn when I was here that there were no Jews on the faculty. Not just not tenured, but there were no Jews on the faculty at all. So, that meant that they took this notion of who they were Davidson took this notion of who they were seriously, and they put it in practice<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Ronald Linden retired in 2019 as Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. At Pitt, he served as Director of the European Studies Center and Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies. A Princeton Ph.D., Dr. Linden was Director of Research for Radio Free Europe in Munich, Germany during the momentous changes that ended communism and the division of Germany. In 2009 he was invited to contribute to the volume, The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later, published by the US Department of State. He was a candidate for hire at Davidson in the spring of 1977.<\/p>\n\n\n\n