Nikolai G. Wenzel is Assistant Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College (Hillsdale, Michigan), where he holds the Wallace and Marion Reemelin Chair in Free-Market Economics.  His research focuses primarily on constitutional political economy (comparative and theoretical), philosophy and economics, the work of F.A. Hayek, and wine economics.  He is a member of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, and the American Association of Wine Economists.  Dr. Wenzel is a former Foreign Service Office (by competitive examination) with the US State Department, where he served as Vice Consul and Special Assistant to the US Ambassador at the US Embassy in Mexico City.  He is also former Director of Academic Program for the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.  Dr. Wenzel holds a BSFS cum
laude in International Affairs from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, as well as an MA and PhD from George Mason University, where he wrote under Professor Richard E. Wagner.