William A. Paquette (United States) is a Professor of History at Tidewater Community College in Portsmouth, Virginia, who teaches Latin American History, World Civilization, and Western Civilization. Professor Paquette received a Master's Degree from Duquesne University (Pittsburgh) and a Ph. D. from Emory University (Atlanta). During his academic career, Dr. Paquette earned 14 National Endowment for the Humanities Grants for professional study and Institutional grants that enabled him to study and conduct research in China and Japan. He traveled to southern Mexico for over ten years, examining the archaeology at Maya and Aztec sites, and studied the Maya language at Duke University (Durham, NC).

Professor Paquette presented research at international conferences at the University of Louvain (Belgium), the Sorbonne (Paris), the University of Acala de Henares (Spain), the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Lorand Eotvos University (Budapest), and San Pablo University (Madrid). He has published over 165 articles and nine books and served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Education, the United States Institute of Peace, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and all major history textbook publishers. For a decade, he was the History Editor for the international MERLOT (Multimedia Education Resources for Learning and Online Teaching) Project, instructing college and university faculty on teaching online courses. In 2016, Dr. Paquette went to Eastern Europe to study firsthand the legacy of World War II and Communism on the people and nations of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, and the Czech Republic.