Michael Hickman

Instructor of Political Science

EDUCATION

PhD in Political Theory, Catholic University of America

Juris Doctor, Ave Maria School of Law

BS in Psychology, College of Charleston

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research interest focuses on employing the resources of phenomenology to elucidate the essential dimensions of political experience, such as belonging, authority, and foreignness. Moreover, I want to understand the peculiar objectivity proper to political order and the political community itself. I believe such an analysis could somewhat ameliorate the ills of modern liberalism, insofar as the latter has obscured our comprehension that, as Aristotle insisted, “man is a political animal.”     

COURSES TAUGHT

American Government and The Judiciary.

PUBLICATIONS

In April of 2023, Hickman published his first book, Husserlian Phenomenology and Contemporary Political Realism: The Legitimacy of the Life-World, with Routledge Press.