Dr. Matthew Mehan is the Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of Government, Graduate School of Government. He has been teaching and designing humanities curricula for twenty years. Dr. Mehan graduated valedictorian from the University of Dallas, and he received from his alma mater a B.A. in Politics, an M.A. in English, and a honors Ph.D. in Literature for his dissertation on Shakespeare, Thomas More, and the education of leading citizens. For the last nearly ten years, he has also taught for the College’s Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program for undergraduates.

Dr. Mehan has consulted for national leaders and heads of state. He has written for various outlets both scholarly and popular, including Moreana and The Wall Street Journal. He is also the author of The Handsome Little Cygnet as well as Mr. Mehan’s Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals, an illustrated, best-selling book of poems that one critic called ‘a new classic’ in children's literature. His lovely wife and their passel of children live in Virginia.