Paul Manuel
Paul Manuel was appointed an affiliated professor at Georgetown University in 2009 at the McCourt School of Public Policy.
He also teaches in the Government Department and in the School of Continuing Studies. He is an author, co-author, or editor of 12 books and numerous scholarly articles.
Manuel has been a research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown since 2010 and a local affiliate at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University since 1995. Manuel divides his time between Washington DC and Massachusetts.
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 at Georgetown, including comparative political systems, comparative public policy, international organization, public management, and leadership. He has also supervised many graduate-level capstone projects at the McCourt School.
His scholarship has contributed to the democratization literature in Portugal, with a focus on religion in a post-transition setting. Manuel currently participates in the Varieties of Democracy Project, with a focus on Portuguese-speaking Africa. He has served on the National Screening Panel for the Graduate Fulbright Competition in Spain and Portugal (Iberia) and has received Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities grants. He served terms on the Executive Council of the New England Political Science Association from 2006-2008 and again from 2019 to 2023.
Manuel previously worked at the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, DC, where he served as the leadership program director for eight years. Previously, Dr. Manuel founded and directed the Mount Leadership Institute (now called ILEAD) at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland, and, before that, he was a co-founder and executive director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester. He was a tenured full professor of politics at Mount St. Mary’s University and Saint Anselm College. He served as the politics department chair at Saint Anselm College for 15 years. Manuel has also taught at the University of Maryland-College Park, Boston University, and at the University of New Hampshire (Durham and Manchester).
He holds a Ph.D. in government from Georgetown University, an M.T.S. from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology (now known as the Gloria L. and Charles I. Clough School of Theology and Ministry at Boston College), an M.A. in international relations from Boston University, and a B.A. in political science, Summa Cum Laude, from Boston University.