Larry Shinn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Larry Shinn

college president

Date of Birth: 16-Jan-1942

Place of Birth: Ohio, United States

Profession: theologian, Indologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Larry Shinn (born January 16, 1942) was president of Berea College, Kentucky, from 1994 to 2012.
Prior to this appointment he was Vice-President of Academic Affairs, Dean of Humanities and Head of the Religious Studies Department at Bucknell University. Larry Shinn received his undergraduate degree from Baldwin-Wallace College located in Berea Ohio.
In 1972 he defended his dissertation Krsna's Lila: An Analysis of the Relationship of the Notion of Deity and the Concept of Samsara in the Bhagavata Purana and received a Ph.D.
in history of religions from Princeton University.
Shinn has studied Hare Krishnas in America for more than forty years and, among his other writings, published, The Dark Lord, a study of the Hare Krishnas and the cult controversy.