Ruth Linn is an Israeli academic and professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development at the University of Haifa, where she has taught since 1982. She served as dean of the Faculty of Education from 2001 to 2006. Specializing in moral psychology, Linn has written about resistance to authority, including conscientious objection; women and moral resistance; and the representation, in Israel's collective memory, of moral conflicts during the Holocaust. Linn is the author of five books, including Not Shooting and Not Crying: Psychological Inquiry into Moral Disobedience ; Conscience at War: the Israeli Soldier as a Moral Critic ; Mature Unwed Mothers: Narratives of Moral Resistance ; and Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting.
After receiving her doctorate, Linn taught in the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa from 1982, and from 2001 to 2006 served as its dean. She has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Maryland University, and the University of British Columbia. The author of Escaping Auschwitz, a book about the Auschwitz escapee Rudolf Vrba, Linn arranged for the University of Haifa to award Vrba an honorary doctorate in 1998, in recognition of his escape and his contribution to Holocaust education. The award ceremony coincided with the first publication in Hebrew of his memoirs and the Vrba–Wetzler report by Haifa University Press.
Linn, Ruth.. "Conscientious Objection in Israel During the War in Lebanon". Armed Forces and Society. 12: 489–511.
———. "When the Individual Soldier Says 'No' to War: A Look at Selective Refusal During the Intifada". Journal of Peace Research. 33: 421–431.
———. . Journal of Genocide Research, 5: 565–568.
———. . Theory and Criticism, 24, 163-184.
———. "Voice, silence and memory after Auschwitz". In Lentin, R., Representing the Shoah for the 21st Century. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books.
———. "In the name of the Holocaust: Fears and hopes among Israeli soldiers and Palestinians". Journal of Genocide Research. 1: 439–453.
———. "Between the 'Known' and the 'Could be Known': The case of the escape from Auschwitz". In Christina Guenther and Beth Griech-Polelle. Trajectories of Memory: Intergenerational Representations of the Holocaust in History and the Arts. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 15–40.
