Lynn Mahoney
Lynn Mahoney | |
|---|---|
| 14th President of San Francisco State University | |
| Assumed office July 1, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Leslie Wong |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 19, 1964 |
| Spouse | Charles Ponce de Leon |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | Stanford University (BA) Rutgers University (PhD) |
| Occupation | University president, administrator, author, social historian |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Near the edge: Elizabeth Stoddard and the boundaries of Victorian culture (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | T.J. Jackson Lears |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Institutions | |
Lynn Mahoney (born 1964) is an American university president, author, and social historian. Mahoney is the president of San Francisco State University (SFSU) since July 2019, and is the first woman to hold this role. Her scholarly work has focused on United States history, women's history, feminism, race studies, and ethnicity. She is the author of Elizabeth Stoddard and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Culture (2004, Routledge); a book about novelist and poet Elizabeth Stoddard.