EDUCATION
PhD., Philosophy, The Catholic University of America
MA., Politics The Catholic University of America, Politics
BA, Government, Georgetown University
RECENT COURSES
POL 1311 Principles of American Politics
POL 3356 American Political Thought
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Cantirino, Matthew T., Review Essay of Making a Modern Political Order: The Problem
of the Nation-State by James J. Sheehan, Perspectives on Political Science (September
2023). DOI: 10.1080/10457097.2023.2251360
Cantirino, Matthew T., 鈥淭he Dictatress and the Decisionmakers: On Stephen Wertheim鈥檚 Tomorrow the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy,鈥� Humanitas XXV (2022). DOI: 10.5840/humanitas2022351/27
Cantirino, Matthew T., Jonathan Askonas, and Justin Litke, 鈥淭eaching the American Empire Debate,鈥� H-Diplo Teaching Roundtable XXI-20, 2019. Link: https://hdiplo.org/to/RT21-20
ACCEPTED PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Cantirino, Matthew T., 鈥淗enry Adams: An Aristocrat Out of Time,鈥� book chapter in Aristocratic
Voices: Forgotten Arguments about Virtue, Authority and Inequality, Richard Avramenko
and Ethan Alexander-Davey, eds. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024).
Cantirino, Matthew T., 鈥淒avid Walsh on the Form of the American Mind,鈥� book chapter in Personalism and Catholic Political Thought, Thomas W. Holman, ed. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2025).
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PANELS
鈥淥restes Brownson, America, and the 鈥極rder of Reality,鈥欌�� Paper, American Political
Science Association National Meeting, September 2024.
鈥淒oes Publius Disdain the Imagination?,鈥� Paper, Academy of Philosophy and Letters Annual Meeting, June 2024.
鈥淣ew Perspectives on the Real and Ideal,鈥� Panel Chair, Academy of Philosophy and Letters Annual Meeting, June 2024.
鈥溾�楪orgons, Hydras, and Chimeras Dire鈥�: Literary Limits in the Federalist,鈥� Paper, American Political Science Association National Meeting, September 2023.
鈥淛ohn Adams鈥� Defense of Constitutions: A New-Old Method in the History of Political Philosophy,鈥� Paper, Academy of Philosophy and Letters Annual Meeting, June 2023.
鈥淒avid Walsh on the Form of the American Mind,鈥� Paper, Continuity Amid Crisis: The Person in the Work of David Walsh, March 2023.
鈥淭he Clothes Make the Mannikin: Henry Adams and Three Approaches to 鈥楰now Thyself,鈥欌�� Paper, American Political Science Association National Meeting, September 2019.
鈥淚s Liberalism Both Too Rich and Too Thin, and Is Religion the Cure?,鈥� Panelist, American Political Science Association National Meeting, September 2019.