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.