Professional Background
Paul Manuel is a visiting professor of government at Claremont McKenna College (Washington, DC campus) and an affiliated professor in the government department and at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. He is a research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University and a local affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Previous Academic Roles
Paul Manuel has over twenty-five years of experience with college-level teaching, student advising, program management, and development. He has taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses in comparative politics, comparative public policy, international relations, and leadership, and supervised many graduate-level capstone projects.
He was the director of the Leadership Program at the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C. from 2015 to 2023. Manuel enjoyed a faculty appointment as Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer & Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Government at American University.
Manuel was appointed the founding director of the Institute for Leadership at Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland in 2010 and remained in that role until 2015. Before that, he was the co-founder and executive director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, where he was also the chair of the Department of Politics (1993-2008). Manuel was a tenured full professor of politics at both institutions. He has been an affiliated professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University since 2009. He has also taught at Boston University, Suffolk University, the University of New Hampshire at Durham and Manchester, and the University of Maryland at College Park. He serves on the executive committee of the New England Political Science Association.
Research Activities
Manuel is a research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University and a local affiliate at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Manuel divides his time between Washington DC and Massachusetts.
Manuel’s scholarship has contributed to the democratization literature in Portugal, with a focus on religion and politics. He has authored, co-authored or edited twelve books and numerous scholarly articles. Manuel has also participated in the Varieties of Democracy Project and served on the National Screening Panel for the Graduate Fulbright Competition in Spain and Portugal (Iberia).
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