Christine McDonald
b. 1970
Christine has over twenty-five years’ experience in education as a teacher, historian, and administrator. She holds a bachelor’s degree from American University, School of International Service, in Washington DC and a master’s degree in liberal education from Saint John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland.
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She began her education career teaching at Piedmont Virginia Community College, in Charlottesville, Virginia and worked on the research staff at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Christine has received research fellowships from the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and she is a published author of scholarship focused on Thomas Jefferson’s influence on West Point, and U.S. education history and policy.
Christine taught government and history as the Chair of the Storm King School, History & Social Studies Department and later at Tuxedo Park School. She returned to college-level teaching as an adjunct history faculty member at SUNY Westchester Community College and subsequently served as the Dean of Academics at the New York Military Academy. Christine currently serves as the West Point Association of Graduates Director of the CONNECT Program.
