D. Michael Lindsay | |
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President of Taylor University | |
Assumed office 2021 | |
Preceded by | Paige Comstock Cunningham |
President of Gordon College | |
In office 2011–2021 | |
Preceded by | R. Judson Carlberg |
Succeeded by | Michael D. Hammond |
Personal details | |
Born | Jackson, Mississippi, U.S. | 16 November 1971
Residence | Upland, Indiana |
Education | Baylor University (BA) Wycliffe Hall, Oxford (PgD) Princeton University (PhD) |
Profession | Sociologist, university president |
David Michael Lindsay (born 16 November 1971) is an American sociologist and the president of Taylor University. He was also president of Gordon College, a private, Evangelical Christian liberal arts college on Boston's North Shore from 2011 to 2021. Before arriving at Gordon, Lindsay was on faculty for five years at Rice University and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. He is known as a scholar in the study of leadership, elites, evangelicalism, and higher education.[1]