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Michael Federici<\/strong> is Professor of Political Science at Middle Tennessee State University and chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations. He served on the faculty at Mercyhurst University from August 1993-May 2017 (seven years as department chair). While at Mercyhurst, he was Faculty Senate President and on the University\u2019s Board of Trustees from 2011-2013 and 2007-2009. He is in his twenty-ninth year of college teaching. He received his Ph.D. (1990) and M.A. (1985) in Politics from The Catholic University of American in Washington, D.C., and his B.S. in Economics from Elizabethtown College (1983). Dr. Federici has published five books, <\/span><\/span><\/span>The Challenge of Populism<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> (1991), <\/span><\/span><\/span>Eric Voegelin: The Restoration of Order<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> (2002), <\/span><\/span><\/span>The Political Philosophy of Alexander Hamilton<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> published by Johns Hopkins University Press (June 2012), <\/span><\/span><\/span>Rethinking the Teaching of American History<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>, (an edited volume; Butler Books 2012), and a co-edited collection of essays entitled, <\/span><\/span><\/span>The Culture of Immodesty in American Life and Politics: The Modest Republic<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> (Palgrave Macmillan, May 2013). Dr. Federici also contributed a new introduction to the thirtieth-anniversary edition of Russell Kirk\u2019s <\/span><\/span><\/span>The Politics of Prudence<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> (Regnery Publishing, 2023). Dr. Federici\u2019s teaching and research areas include American Politics, Constitutional Law, Political Theory, and American Political Thought. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Michael Federici is Professor of Political Science at Middle Tennessee State University and chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations. He served on the faculty at Mercyhurst University from August 1993-May 2017 (seven years as department chair). While at Mercyhurst, he was Faculty Senate President and on the University\u2019s Board of Trustees […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

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Jeff Polet is Director of the Ford Leadership Forum at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation. Previously he was a Professor of Political Science at Hope College, and before that at Malone College in Canton, OH. A native of West Michigan, he received his BA from Calvin College and his MA and Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America in Washington DC.<\/div>
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In addition to his teaching, he has published on a wide range of scholarly and popular topics. These include Contemporary European Political Thought, American Political Thought, the American Founding, education theory and policy, constitutional law, religion and politics, virtue theory, and other topics. His work has appeared in many scholarly journals as well as more popular venues such as\u00a0The Hill<\/i>,\u00a0the Spectator<\/i>,\u00a0The American Conservative<\/i>,\u00a0First Things<\/i>, and others.<\/div>
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He serves on the board of The Front Porch Republic, an organization dedicated to the idea that human flourishing happens best in local communities and in face-to-face relationships. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal. He has lectured at many schools and civic institutions across the\u00a0country. He is married, and he and his wife enjoy the occasional company of their three adult children.<\/div>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40954,"href":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40835\/revisions\/40954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}