Ronald Frank Thiemann (1946 – November 29, 2012) was an American political theologian and Benjamin Bussey Professor of Theology at Harvard Divinity School.
In 2006 Thiemann represented the U.S. National Academies of Science on a lecture tour of universities and research centers in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
[2] While acting president of Haverford College, Thiemann officiated at the May 1986 graduation ceremonies during which honorary doctorates were to be awarded to Edwin Bronner, Robert M. Gavin Jr., Eleanor Holmes Norton and Andrew L. Lewis, Jr. Lewis, head of the Union Pacific Railroad, had recently served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation in the cabinet of Ronald Reagan and overseen the lockout of striking air traffic controllers in 1981.
The supervisor informed University President Neil L. Rudenstine who then suggested that the dean resign but be allowed to stay as a tenured member on the Harvard faculty.
[7] The Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz wrote, in a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe, "Surely Dean Thiemann would not have been asked to resign if he had been found using his Harvard-owned computer to keep track of his private stamp collection.