Matthew T. Cantirino, Ph.D

Matthew T. Cantirino is a Visiting Assistant Professor of American Government in the Department of Political Science at Assumption University. His PhD dissertation centered around the American writer Henry Adams and the place of the person in history. His interests include the republican and constitutional traditions of the United States, “big picture” approaches to contemporary political debates, especially about foreign policy and self-government, the intersection of literature, art, and imaginative works with political thought, and the question of historicity and normativity, including philosophies of history and their discontents. He also serves as an editor for the scholarly journal Humanitas and (before academia) worked as an editor for the ecumenical journal First Things. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY.