Faculty Profile for Dr. Michael Joseph Faber

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Dr. Michael Joseph Faber
Associate Professor — Political Science
THH 355
phone: (512) 245-3261
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Service

Biography Section

Biography and Education

 Ph.D. Indiana University, 2008
M.A. Indiana University, 2006
B.A. Northwestern University, 2001

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Faber, M. J. (2019). An Anti-Federalist Constitution: The Development of Dissent in the Ratification Debates. University Press of Kansas.
  • Faber, M. J. (2018). The American Frontier as State of Nature. World Affairs.
  • Faber, M. J. (2015). The Union Paradigm of 1788: Three Anti-Federalists Who Changed Their Minds. American Political Thought, 4(4), 527–556.
  • Faber, M. J. (2014). Democratic Anti-Federalism: Rights, Democracy, and the Minority in the Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 88(2), 135–162.
  • Faber, M. J. (2010). Our Federalist Constitution: The Founders’ Expectations and Contemporary American Government. El Paso, TX: LFB Scholarly Publishing.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Nominee: Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching- Associate/Full Professor. 2022
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching- Assistant Professor. 2017

Selected Service Activities

Student Group Advisor
Wisdom Factory Literary Society
November 2017-2020
Speaker
"Should Texas join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact?": Common Ground for Texans
October 1, 2016
Speaker
“The Two-Party System: Past, Present, Future?”: Common Ground for Texans
June 4, 2016
Member
Political Theory Search Committee
August 1, 2015-December 1, 2015
Student Group Advisor
College Diabetes Network
November 2020-Present