Emily Musil teaches History and International Studies at Trinity College. She is the Coordinator of African Studies, serves on the Faculty Advisory Board for Trinity’s Human Rights Program, and is the Faculty Liaison for the Men's Lacrosse Team.  She is currently the Co-Chair of the President's Colloquia "Hip Hop: Roots, Race, Rights."  She has taught previously at UCLA in the Department of History and at American University in the School of International Service.  She seeks to inspire students to be creators and interpreters of knowledge who are engaged with the world, and who can connect their academic learning with civic responsibility and community involvement.

Her doctoral dissertation was entitled "La Marianne Noire: How Race & Gender in the Twentieth Century Atlantic World Reshaped the Debate about Human Rights." Her current projects include a study on women's voting rights in West Africa after World War II, an article on the use of prosopography as historical methodology, and a joint project on the use of digital technology for social change in Africa.