Dr. David Olson was born in 1930 in Westwood, Lassen County, California. He received all of his degrees from the University of California, Berkeley (BA 1952, MA 1956, Ph.D. 1961). He began working at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1971, and retired in 2000. His areas of focus were legislatures and parliaments. In his interview, Dr. Olson discusses his early life, the Political Science Department, and his time at UNCG.
