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In 1947, Linebarger moved to the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where he served as Professor of Asiatic Studies.
This sentence is historically anachronistic. SAIS did not become part of Johns Hopkins until 1950, so in 1947 it was not yet 'Johns Hopkins University's' school.
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The problem here is the institutional affiliation, not necessarily that Linebarger taught at SAIS.
Johns Hopkins SAIS states that the School of Advanced International Studies was founded in 1943 and became part of Johns Hopkins in 1950. An official Johns Hopkins SAIS page likewise says the school "became a division of The Johns Hopkins University in 1950."
That matches contemporaneous evidence from Linebarger's own 1948 book Psychological Warfare, whose title page identifies him simply with the "School of Advanced International Studies" and does not describe it as a Johns Hopkins school.
So describing a 1947 move as a move to "the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies" is historically inaccurate; SAIS was still independent at that point.
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- Vali Nasr Named Dean of Johns Hopkins SAIS
SAIS was founded in Washington, D.C., in 1943 ... It became a part of Johns Hopkins in 1950.
- SAIS Founder and Arms Control Expert Paul H. Nitze Dead at 97
the school, which became a division of The Johns Hopkins University in 1950, was renamed in his honor
- Psychological Warfare, a Project Gutenberg eBook by Paul M. A. Linebarger
Psychological Warfare By PAUL M. A. LINEBARGER School of Advanced International Studies DUELL, SLOAN AND PEARCE NEW YORK COPYRIGHT 1948, 1954