Joanna Milstein

Joanna Milstein received her B.A. in 2004 from Columbia University where she majored in French with a history concentration. Ms. Milstein studied for a year at Columbia University’s Reid Hall program in Paris and attended classes at French universities, including the Institut d’Études Politiques (Sciences Po). Upon graduation from Columbia, Ms. Milstein was awarded a prize from the French department for outstanding achievement as a French major, and she graduated with departmental honors.

She also studied abroad at the Columbia University-sponsored program in Scandiano, Italy. During her time in Scandiano, she played the lead female role in a theatrical adaptation of the Renaissance epic Orlando Innamorato.

Ms. Milstein graduated with an MLitt from the University of St Andrews in 2007. Her MLitt dissertation, The Question of Savoy in French Politics at Cateau-Cambrésis, was awarded a distinction. Ms. Milstein taught at both the University of St Andrews and Dundee University in Scotland. She is currently working on her PhD in sixteenth century French and Italian history at the University of St Andrews.

She has previously worked at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C. and interned for the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the United Nations in Geneva.

Ms. Milstein joined the MAP Board of Trustees on May 14, 2009.