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Paula Russo

Instructor | Pre-College Programs

Paula Russo holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a Master’s in History and Middle East Studies from Harvard’s Center for Middle East Studies, and an undergraduate degree from Princeton University. For fourteen years, she taught Constitutional Law, Middle Eastern History, and Interdisciplinary Humanities at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut. She currently teaches Constitutional Law, International Relations, Middle East History, and Writing Seminar at Greenwich Country Day School, where she advises the GCDS Law Review.  Past positions include Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at the University of Baltimore School of Law and the Middle East North Africa Coordinator at Catholic Relief Services in Cairo, Egypt. She received support from the Foreign Language Area Studies fund at the State Department and the Social Science Research Council for graduate studies and dissertation research. Ms. Russo’s particular academic interests include the First Amendment, medieval and modern Egypt, and new pedagogy.