Jul 1, 2012
Richard Mahoney to direct NC State’s School of Public and International Affairs
Dr. Richard Mahoney has been named director of the college's School of Public and International Affairs at NC State University, effective July 1, 2012. For the past four years, Mahoney has held the Elizabeth Evans Baker Professorship of Peace and Conflict Studies at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Mahoney served for four years as Secretary of State of Arizona in the 1990s. He ran for the United States Senate in 1994 and governor in 2002. Mahoney is considered one of the leading historians in the United States on the Kennedys and was the John F. Kennedy Scholar at the University of Massachusetts. He also writes and consults on international security and is currently completing a book on regime change to be published by Oxford University Press. He taught international business management for 20 years at the Thunderbird School of Global Management.