Biography and expertise
Ph.D. Indiana University, 2008
M.A. Indiana University, 2006
B.A. Northwestern University, 2001
M.A. Indiana University, 2006
B.A. Northwestern University, 2001
Education
Doctorate Degree
PhD in Political Science
Indiana University Bloomington, 2008
Master's Degree
MA in Political Science
Indiana University Bloomington, 2006
Bachelor's Degree
BA in Math Methods in Social Science and Political Science
Northwestern University, 2001
Featured scholarly/creative works
- 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.
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Elbert K Fretwell Outstanding Educator Award, Scouting America. March 2025
- 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

Featured service activities
- Other
Wisdom Factory Literary Society
- Speaker
"Should Texas join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact?": Common Ground for Texans
- Speaker
“The Two-Party System: Past, Present, Future?”: Common Ground for Texans
- Member
Political Theory Search Committee
- Other
- Other
Pi Sigma Alpha
