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Paul du Quenoy is a historian and critic, currently Associate Professor of History at the American University of Beirut.

A summa cum laude graduate of George Washington University, du Quenoy received his Ph.D. with distinction from Georgetown University, where he studied with the late Richard Stites. He has held two Fulbright fellowships for study in Russia and was a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC. He has also held research awards from the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies and the American Historical Association.

Paul du Quenoy's scholarly interests range from cultural history to global military and diplomatic affairs. His first book, Stage Fright: Politics and the Performing Arts in Late Imperial Russia (2009), was critically acclaimed as "stimulating and provocative" and identified as an important new contribution to the field. He subsequently published Wagner and the French Muse: Music, Society, and Nation in Modern France (2011), which has been hailed as a "pleasantly readable, extensively documented narrative." of the German composer Richard Wagner's reception in France.

In addition to his academic work, du Quenoy writes frequent music criticism from the world's leading theatrical capitals, including Paris, Berlin, Vienna, New York, Milan, and the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals. He is also a sought after lecturer in the travel and tourism industry, particularly in cruise itineraries, and a travel writer. In 2011 he became, at age 33, one of the youngest people ever elected to membership in Washington, DC's elite Cosmos Club, where National Geographic magazine was founded. He also belongs to Washington's University Club and serves on the organizing committee of that city's annual Russian New Years Ball.