Paul du Quenoy

Paul du Quenoy, FRSA is President and CEO of Academica Press and President of the Palm Beach Freedom Institute. He graduated summa cum laude from George Washington University and received his Ph.D., with distinction, in History from Georgetown University. Over a 15-year academic career, Professor du Quenoy taught history and other humanities courses at Georgetown, the American University in Cairo, and the American University of Beirut. A Fulbright scholar, he has also held fellowships from the American Historical Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Danube Institute, and Hokkaido University, in Japan. In 2021, he became president of the Palm Beach Freedom Institute (PBFI), a public affairs institute of national and international notoriety that promotes civil rights, constitutional principles, and the exceptionalism of the American experience. Professor du Quenoy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
His books include Stage Fright: Politics and the Performing Arts in Late Imperial Russia (2009), Wagner and French Muse: Music, Society, and Nation in Modern France (2011), Through the Years With Prince Charming: The Collected Music Criticism of Paul du Quenoy, 2010-2020 (2021), and Cancel Culture: Tales from the Front Lines (2021).  His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, the New York Post, the Daily Telegraph, Spectator, the Washington Times, the New Criterion, The Critic, Los Angeles Review of Books, American Conservative, European Conservative, Musical America, Chronicles and Journal of Modern History among others.