Troy McGrath

Dr. Troy McGrath is an political commentator, educator, academic administrator, and international curriculum consultant based in the US and Russia. His post-graduate work was undertaken at Columbia University, where he earned an MA and an M.Phil in Political Science, and a PhD in International Relations. He earned a number of fellowships, including a National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Grant (taken in Latvia), a Strategic Studies Institute Fellowship (split between the Institute and Oxford University) and a Foreign & Commonwealth Research Fellowship (taken at the LSE), and served on Fulbright and Muskie Selection Committees and as an Evaluator for the SSRC’s “Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowship”. Subsequently, he completed a Certificate in Education Management at Harvard University (2005), as well as Certificates from the World Bank Institute in “Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations & Fiscal Decentralization” and on “Public Expenditure, Institutional Reforms & Service Delivery.” He has served in administrative and various academic appointments in the US, and has worked as a faculty and administrator at universities in Albania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Nigeria, China, and Russia. In addition, he has worked with Native Americans (Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas), helped run a training program for Burmese political refugees in Thailand. Currently his teaching and research is focused upon the political and social ramifications of contemporary trends in Mass Media and Social Media.