EDUCATION
PhD., Politics, The Catholic University of America
MA., Politics, The Catholic University of America
BA, Government, Georgetown University
RECENT COURSES
POL 1311 Principles of American Politics
POL 3356 American Political Thought
BOOK CHAPTERS
Cantirino, Matthew T., “David Walsh on the Form of the American Mind,” in Personalism for the Twenty-First Century, Thomas W. Holman, ed. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2025).
Cantirino, Matthew T., “Henry Adams: An Aristocrat Out of Time,” in Aristocratic Voices: Forgotten Arguments about Virtue, Authority and Inequality, Richard Avramenko and Ethan Alexander-Davey, eds. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books,
2025).
REVIEW ESSAYS AND BOOK REVIEWS
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., “The Dictatress and the Decisionmakers: On Stephen Wertheim’s Tomorrow the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy,” review essay, Humanitas XXV (2022). DOI: 10.5840/humanitas2022351/27
Cantirino, Matthew T., Jonathan Askonas, and Justin Litke, “Teaching the American Empire Debate,” H-Diplo Teaching Roundtable XXI-20, 2019. Link: https://hdiplo.org/to/RT21-20
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
Cantirino, Matthew T., America Transformed: The Rise and Legacy of American Progressivism by Ronald J. Pestritto, review essay, Catholic Social Science Review (accepted; Q1
2026).
Cantirino, Matthew T. “Civic Education and American Foreign Policy: What Orestes Brownson
Might Say to ‘Realists and Restrainers,’” The Political Science Reviewer (revise & resubmit).
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Panel Discussion of Why Religion Went Obsolete by Christian Smith, Panelist, Society of Catholic Social Scientists, Steubenville,
OH, October 2025.
“Kendall’s Concept of ‘Tradition’: A Lament or a Promissory Note?” Paper, The Legacy of Willmoore Kendall Conference, Irving, TX, September 2025.
“Humility, Exceptionalism, or Realism?,” Paper, American Civics at 250, Jack Miller Center, Miami, FL, August 2025.
Book Roundtable on Aristocratic Voices: Forgotten Arguments about Virtue, Authority, and Inequality, Panelist, Academy of Philosophy and Letters Annual Meeting, College Park, MD, June 2025.
“Orestes Brownson, America, and the ‘Order of Reality,’” Paper, American Political Science Association National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, September 2024.
“Does Publius Disdain the Imagination?,” Paper, Academy of Philosophy and Letters Annual Meeting, College Park, MD, June 2024.
“New Perspectives on the Real and Ideal,” Panel Chair, Academy of Philosophy and Letters Annual Meeting, College Park, MD, June 2024.
“‘Gorgons, Hydras, and Chimeras Dire’: Literary Limits in the Federalist,” Paper, American Political Science Association National Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, September 2023.
“John Adams’ Defence of Constitutions: A New-Old Method in the History of Political Philosophy,” Paper, Academy of Philosophy and Letters Annual Meeting, College Park, MD, June 2023.
“David Walsh on the Form of the American Mind,” Paper, Continuity Amid Crisis: The
Person in the Work of David Walsh, Washington, DC, March 2023.