Guest Speaker - Dr. Michael P. Federici

Michael P. Federici is professor and former chair of the Political Science and International Relations Department at Middle Tennessee State University. He served on the faculty at Mercyhurst University for twenty-four years, including seven years as department chair. While at Mercyhurst, he served as Faculty Senate President and on the University’s Board of Trustees. He currently serves as MTSU Faculty Senate President-Elect. He is in his thirty-sixth year of college teaching.

He received his B.S. in economics from Elizabethtown College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in politics from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Federici has published six books, The Challenge of Populism (Praeger, 1991), Eric Voegelin: The Restoration of Order (ISI Books, 2002), The Political Philosophy of Alexander Hamilton (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), Rethinking the Teaching of American History, (an edited volume; Butler Books 2012), and a co-edited collection of essays entitled, The Culture of Immodesty in American Life and Politics: The Modest Republic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and The Catholic Writings of Orestes Brownson, (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019). He has also published several articles and book reviews.

Professor Federici has been interviewed for local and national media including WZTV and WKRN (Nashville), WJET TV, WICU TV, WSEE TV, C-SPAN, WITF PA Public Radio, WQLN Radio, WJET Radio, WNYC Radio, WBEN Radio (Buffalo), Tennessean, The Erie Times News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Harrisburg’s The Patriot-News, Scranton Times-Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, The Buffalo News, Tribune de Genève, and CQ Weekly.