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Michael Palmer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine, where he has taught political philosophy, and lectured and taught in the university’s Honors College since 1983. He is the recipient of dozens of national and international academic awards, fellowships, honors, and distinctions from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Liberty Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, and the John M. Olin Foundation; and has published scholarly articles in the most distinguished academic journals in the United States and Canada, including the American Political Science Review, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Interpretation: a journal of political philosophy, andthe Review of Politics. He is the author of Love of Glory and the Common Good: The Political Thought of Thucydides (Rowman & Littlefield, 1992); contributing author (on Plato’s Republic) and co-editor (with Thomas L. Pangle, University of Texas-Austin) of Political Philosophy and the Human Soul: Essays in Memory of Allan Bloom (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995); and author of Masters and Slaves: Revisioned Essays in Political Philosophy (Lexington Books, 2001), a collection of his most important essays and reviews, including a new interpretation of Machiavelli’s Prince, prepared especially for the volume. His most recent scholarly publication is “Historicism, Relativism, and Nihilism versus American Natural Right in Casablanca” which inspired, and a revision of which is included in, James F. Pontuso (ed.), Political Philosophy Comes to Rick’s: Casablanca and American Civic Culture (Lexington Books, 2005). Since 2002, he has been invited to lecture at the University of London; the University of Wales; the University of Navarre, Spain; and the University of Malta, Valletta; as well as at colleges and universities in the United States. Professor Palmer was recently described by Professor Clifford Orwin of the University of Toronto, who also writes a regular column for the Toronto Globe and Mail, as “one of the most successful teachers of political philosophy in North America today.” Since 2003, he has served as an Editor of Interpretation;in 2006 he was given the University of Maine’s Outstanding Faculty Award in Teaching in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; and in 2007 awarded a grant from a private foundation to establish a new “Program in Western Civilization and American Liberty” in the college, of which he is the Director.
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