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. While at Mercyhurst, he was faculty senate president and on the university’s Board of Trustees from 2011-2013 and 2007-2009. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in politics from The Catholic University of American in Washington, D.C., and his B.S. in economics from Elizabethtown College. Dr. Federici has published five books, The Challenge of Populism, Eric Voegelin: The Restoration of Order, The Political Philosophy of Alexander Hamilton, Rethinking the Teaching of American History, and a co-edited collection of essays called The Culture of Immodesty in American Life and Politics: The Modest Republic.