Ronald Tiersky

Ronald Tiersky is the Joseph B. Eastman Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts.

Career

Tiersky taught political science and European Studies at Amherst for four decades. During 1980-82 he was Director of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies center in Bologna, Italy. He was associated over the years with the Paris Centre d’études des relations internationales (CERI).

Tiersky is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and he is the founding editor and general editor of the "Europe Today" series at Rowman & Littlefield publishers.

Early life and education

Raised in Chicago, IL, Tiersky did his B.A. at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) in history. He did his M.A. (1971) and Ph, D. (1972), in Political Science, at Columbia University.

He lived in Paris, France 1969-1973 researching his dissertation and first book, on the French Communist Party, where his mentors were Profs. Raymond Aron, Pierre Hassner, and Annie Kriegel.