Murray Bessette Email & Phone Number

Dr. Murray Bessette is Director of Academic Programs at the Alexander Hamilton Society and past Senior Vice President of Education at Common Sense Society, where he oversaw its international Fellowships and professional development programs, directed its middle school and high school curricular initiatives, and planned the programming for its academic events. During his two decades in the academic and non-profits sectors, Dr. Bessette has served as an associate professor at Morehead State University and Director of Academic Programs at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. He was also a Lincoln Fellow of the Claremont Institute, an Academic Fellow of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the Co-Director of the Bluegrass State Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence, President of the Kentucky Political Science Association, and an Academic Advisory Board Member of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions. He serves on the board of both The Remembrance Society and the American Civics Academy, the latter of which he co-founded. Dr. Bessette earned a Ph.D. in political science and an M.A. in American government from Claremont Graduate University and an M.A. and B.A. in political science from the University of Alberta.

Listed skills include Research, Public Policy, Political Science, Politics, and 46 others.