She earned her Ph.D. from Arizona State University in August 2011, successfully defending her dissertation “In Virtue’s Cause: The Political Thought of Mercy Otis Warren”. Warren was the foremost female intellectual at the time of the American founding, and made a strong case for the connection between liberty and virtue. While completing her doctorate, Munsil served as a full-time lecturer in the ASU School of Politics and Global Studies. Her doctorate was her third degree from ASU, where she was Outstanding Graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Editor in Chief of the State Press, earning a bachelor of science in journalism followed by a master’s in political science.