Kevin Hallock
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. Academic career 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. 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