The University has tapped a woman with an extensive background in military and U.S Department of Defense-related work to replace John Moseley as senior vice president and provost when he retires June 30.
Linda P. Brady, dean of North Carolina State University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences and a professor of political science, will begin her duties July 1 after working at North Carolina State since July 2001.
“Dr. Brady will, as the chief academic officer, lead our efforts to further enhance our stature as one of the premier public research universities in the country,” University President Dave Frohnmayer said in a University news release.
Frohnmayer said at the University Senate meeting Nov. 30 that it’s important for the senior vice president and provost and president to be “alter-egos.”
Brady’s academic focus is in international negotiations and arms control, and her current research focuses on the role of negotiation in war termination.
“This is a time of great challenge, and great opportunity, in public higher education, and I look forward to working with my new colleagues to help strengthen the university’s teaching, research and service mission,” Brady said in the new release.
A New York City native, Brady lead the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1993 to 2001 and also served as an international affairs professor.
She was a distinguished professor of national security at the United States Military Academy , served as a senior fellow in international security and arms control at The Carter Center of Emory University and held several position in the U.S Department of State and the Department of Defense from 1978 to 1985.
She’s also been a political analyst in the state department’s Office of Disarmament and Arms Control and has been a special assistant for mutual and balanced force reduction in the defense department during Jimmy Carter’s administration.
Brady was the first member of her family to attend college and earned a degree in political science from Douglass College, the women’s division of Rutgers University, in 1969. She earned a political science master’s degree from Rutgers in 1970 and a doctorate from The Ohio State University in 1974.
Brady will work with Frohnmayer and a search committee to select a vice president for academic affairs to replace Lorraine Davis, who, like Moseley, will retire on June 30, 2006. Frohnmayer and his new colleagues will then select a vice president for student affairs and a dean of students to replace Mike Eyster and Robin Holmes, who currently hold interim positions.