Occupation Professor | Website paulmusgrave.info | |
Alma maters Georgetown University (Doctor of Philosophy) | ||
Paul Musgrave is a professor of government at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an expert in American foreign policy matters. He teaches courses in international relations theory, history and international relations, energy politics, U.S. foreign policy, and politics and science fiction.
Musgrave received a Ph.D. in government from Georgetown University. During that time he served as a visiting assistant professor at Dickinson College and as a research fellow at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Prior to that he earned a master of arts degree in politics from the University College Dublin and a bachelor of arts degree from Indiana University, where he was selected as a Wells Scholar and named one of twelve nationwide recipients of the Mitchell Scholarship.
Musgrave's writing and expertise has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, Comparative Political Studies, American Politics Research, and PS: Political Science & Politics. Previously he served as an assistant editor at Foreign Affairs, the flagship publication of the Council on Foreign Relations. For three years, from 2006 to 2009, he served as a special assistant at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library.