D. Michael Lindsay

D. Michael Lindsay
Official portrait, 2011
President of Taylor University
Assumed office
2021
Preceded byPaige Comstock Cunningham
President of Gordon College
In office
2011–2021
Preceded byR. Judson Carlberg
Succeeded byMichael D. Hammond
Personal details
Born (1971-11-16) 16 November 1971 (age 52)
Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.
ResidenceUpland, Indiana
EducationBaylor University (BA)

Wycliffe Hall, Oxford (PgD)
Princeton University (PhD)
ProfessionSociologist, 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]

  1. ^ "For the Media", Gordon College, accessed September 21, 2011.