Paul du Quenoy
Paul du Quenoy, FRSA, is President and CEO of Academica Press, an award-winning international non-fiction publisher, and President of the Palm Beach Freedom Institute, a nonprofit advocacy organization that promotes civil rights, constitutional liberties, and the exceptionalism of the American experience. Previously, he pursued an academic career, teaching history and fine arts at Georgetown University, the American University in Cairo, and the American University of Beirut. His academic expertise includes Russia and Modern Europe, military and diplomatic history, cultural politics, and classical music. He was a Fulbright scholar in Russia and has held fellowships from the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the American Historical Association, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Danube Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center at Hokkaido University in Japan.
The author of five books, Professor du Quenoy writes regularly on politics, art, and society. His work has appeared in Newsweek, the New York Times, the New York Post, the Daily Telegraph, the Washington Times, the New Criterion, Spectator, Tablet, The Critic, City Journal, Chronicles, Musical America, the Los Angeles Review of Books, American Conservative, European Conservative, and the Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, among others. A Palm Beach resident, he writes a regular “insiders” column for Newsmax titled “Florida Man.”
Professor du Quenoy received his B.A. summa cum laude from George Washington University and Ph.D. with distinction from Georgetown University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was awarded the Victory of Adwa Centenary Medal from the Crown Council of Ethiopia in recognition for his advocacy work in the cause of freedom. Since 2013, he has been Chairman of the Russian Ball of Washington, DC, a historic event celebrating the White Russian émigré community and its traditions.