Richard Wallace Mansbach (born 1943) is an American political scientist.
Mansbach studied political science, history, and Spanish at Swarthmore College and graduated in 1964.
[2][3] After completing his dissertation, Mansbach joined the Swarthmore College faculty, in 1967.
[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.
[12] In 2017, the ISA convened a Distinguished Scholar Panel to honor Mansbach and Ferguson.