Paul J. Wahlbeck is an American political scientist, lawyer, and academic administrator. He has served as the dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences since 2020. He is a professor of political science.
Wahlbeck completed a B.A. in political science at Wheaton College in 1983. He earned a J.D. at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1986. He completed a Ph.D. in political science at the Washington University in St. Louis in 1993.