Richard Wallace Mansbach (born 1943) is an American political scientist.
Mansbach studied political science, history, and Spanish at Swarthmore College and graduated in 1964. [1] He then attended the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar. [2] [3] After completing his dissertation, Mansbach joined the Swarthmore College faculty, in 1967. [4] He became an assistant professor in 1968. [5] Mansbach remained at Swarthmore for two years. [1] While teaching at Rutgers University, Mansbach was named a fellow of the American Council on Education in 1981, [6] and worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. [7] [8] He later moved to Iowa State University.
From 1999 to 2004, Mansbach was a co-editor of International Studies Quarterly , an official journal of the International Studies Association. [9] [10] The ISA's Midwest Region had previously awarded Mansbach and Yale H. Ferguson the Lynne Rienner/Quincy Wright Award for their coauthored 1996 book, Polities: Authority, Identities, and Change. [11] In 2014, Mansbach received the ISA's James N. Rosenau Award. [12] In 2017, the ISA convened a Distinguished Scholar Panel to honor Mansbach and Ferguson. [13] ISA–Midwest honored Mansbach again in 2021, with the Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar Award. [14]