Dr. Michael Signer, Visiting Full Professor at the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech, will deliver a free public lecture on Monday, Feb. 3 in Lee Hall, Room 411 at 4 p.m. The title of the lecture is “The Search for Statesmen: The Quest for Leadership in James Madison’s Democracy.” Dr. Signer’s biography is below.<\/p>
Michael Signer is Lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the
\nUniversity of Virginia and Visiting Full Professor at the School of Public and
\nInternational Affairs at Virginia Tech. The author of Demagogue: The Fight
\nto Save Democracy from its Worst Enemies <\/i>(Palgrave Macmillan 2009), he is
\ncurrently at work on Becoming Madison: The Making of an American Statesman
\n<\/i>(PublicAffairs 2015). He has written for Democracy: A Journal of Ideas,
\nDissent, Democracy & Society, The Daily Beast, The Richmond Times-Dispatch,
\nThe New Republic<\/i>, and the Washington Post<\/i> and has appeared on MSNBC,
\nFox News, the BBC, and NPR. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the
\nUniversity of California at Berkeley, where he was a National Science Foundation
\nGraduate Research Fellow, a J.D. from the University of Virginia, and a B.A. in
\npolitics, magna cum laude<\/i>, from Princeton University. He is the managing
\nprincipal of Madison Law & Strategy Group, PLLC and chairs the firm’s
\nCharlottesville office. He served as one of two counselors to Governor Mark
\nWarner in Richmond and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for
\nLieutenant Governor of Virginia in 2009. He is a member of the Board of
\nDirectors of the Center for National Policy and is a Senior Fellow with the
\nTruman National Security Project. He lives in Charlottesville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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