Morgan C. Hall, Ph.D.

Professor Strategy and Policy Department
Morgan C. Hall faculty photo

Biography

Morgan C. Hall is a State Department Faculty Advisor to the Naval War College, teaching in the Strategy and Policy and National Security Affairs Departments. As a Foreign Service Officer, he has served in Austria, Iraq, Italy, Belgium, Canada, and Indonesia. In Rome he served in the Italian Foreign Ministry as a Transatlantic Diplomatic Fellow. In Washington D.C., he served in the State Department on the Spain Desk and as an analyst in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research covering Greece and the Balkans. He holds a Ph.D. in European History from Columbia University and has published a book and several articles on the history of Modern Spain.

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Areas of Expertise

  • Civil-Military Relations
  • Diplomacy
  • Europe
  • Foreign Policy
  • Iraq
  • Southeast Asia

Professional Highlights

2022

Political Unit Chief, Political-Economic Section, U.S. Embassy Vienna, Austria

2021

Counselor for Political-Military Affairs, U.S. Embassy Rome, Italy

2020

Political Unit Chief, U.S. Consulate General Erbil, Iraq

2017

Internal Unit Chief, Political Section, U.S. Embassy Rome, Italy

2016

Political Analyst for Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Romania, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State

2014

Political Officer, U.S. Embassy Jakarta, Indonesia

2011

Deputy Political-Economic Counselor, U.S. Embassy Brussels, Belgium

2007

Political-Military Officer, U.S. Embassy Rome, Italy

2006

Transatlantic Diplomatic Fellow, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome

2004

Spain & Malta Desk Officer, U.S. Department of State

Education

Ph.D.,, Columbia University, 2003, History

M.Phil., Columbia University, 1995, History

B.A., Haverford College, 1989, Philosophy

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