University Times

Political science professor  Ronald Linden has been named director of Pitt’s European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence.

Linden served as director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, 1984-89, and again in 1991-98. From 1989 to 1991, he was director of research for Radio Free Europe.

He is the author or editor of seven books on Central and Eastern Europe.

Linden was a Fulbright Research Scholar and a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer in Yugoslavia; a research scholar at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, and a guest scholar of the East European studies program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

In 2009-10, he was awarded a Transatlantic Academy Fellowship from the German Marshall Fund  to study Turkish foreign policy. He has received grants from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research and from the International Research and Exchanges Board.

Linden received his PhD in politics from Princeton, his master’s degree in political science from the University of Michigan and his bachelor’s degree in government from Boston University.

He succeeds Alberta M. Sbragia, who became vice provost for graduate studies.