Kevin Hallock
{{Short description|American economist and academic administrator}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Kevin F. Hallock
| image =
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| order =
| office = 11th President of the University of Richmond
| term_start = August 15, 2021
| term_end =
| predecessor = Ronald Crutcher
| successor =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1969|3|10}}
| birth_place = Palo Alto, California, U.S.
| death_date =
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| profession = Educator, economist
| spouse = {{marriage|Tina Hallock|1991}}
| children = 2
| education = University of Massachusetts Amherst (BA)
Princeton University (PhD)
}}
Kevin F. Hallock (born March 10, 1969) is an American economist and academic administrator serving as president of the University of Richmond since 2021. Before coming to Richmond, he was the Dean of the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University from 2018 to 2021.{{cite news |last1=Shaffmaster |first1=Melissa |title=Hallock, SC Johnson dean, named University of Richmond president |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/03/hallock-sc-johnson-dean-named-university-richmond-president |access-date=3 May 2022 |work=Cornell Chronicle |date=March 4, 2021}}
Biography
Kevin Hallock was born on March 10, 1969, in Palo Alto, California but grew up in Hadley, Massachusetts. He graduated first in his class from Hopkins Academy in 1987, upon which he attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. Hallock graduated summa cum laude with a degree in economics in 1991 and subsequently received a Master of Arts in 1993 and a Ph.D. in 1995 from Princeton University.{{cite web |title=Kevin F. Hallock CV, July 2012 |url=http://cpi.stanford.edu/media/affiliates/cv/hallock_kevinCV.pdf |website=cpi.stanford.edu |publisher=Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality |access-date=3 May 2022 |date=July 2012}}
Afterwards, Hallock took up a position as a professor of economics and of labor and industrial relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he stayed from 1995 to 2005. In 2005, he began teaching in the department of economics at Cornell University, serving as the Donald C. Opatrny ’74 Chair of the Department of Economics from 2012 to 2015, the Kenneth F. Kahn ’69 Dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations from 2015 to 2018, and the Dean of the SC Johnson College of Business from 2018 to 2021.{{cite web |title=Kevin F. Hallock CV, Aug. 2021 |url=https://president.richmond.edu/hallock/Hallock_CV_August_2021.pdf |website=president.richmond.edu |publisher=Office of the President |access-date=3 May 2022 |date=August 2021}} On March 4, 2021, the University of Richmond announced that its Board of Trustees had unanimously elected Hallock as the institution's 11th president.{{cite news |title=Kevin F. Hallock Named University of Richmond's 11th President |url=https://news.richmond.edu/releases/article/-/19644/kevin-f.-hallock-named-university-of-richmonds-11th-president.html |access-date=3 May 2022 |work=University of Richmond Newsroom |date=March 4, 2021}}
Personal life
Hallock and his wife, Tina, met when they were four years old and were married in 1991. They have two children.{{cite web |title=About Kevin Hallock |url=https://president.richmond.edu/hallock/index.html |website=president.richmond.edu |publisher=Office of the President |access-date=3 May 2022}}
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Category:University of Richmond faculty
Category:Presidents of the University of Richmond
Category:Academics from Palo Alto, California
Category:People from Hadley, Massachusetts
Category:University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni