Matthew Mehan

Biography

Dr. Matthew Mehan is the Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Government for the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College in Washington, D.C., right on Capitol Hill. He has been teaching and designing humanities and civics curricula for twenty-five years. For over a decade, he has also taught humanities courses 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 has won numerous fellowships and awards from such institutions as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Earhart Foundation. 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 most recent book, The American Book of Fables, was released in May and celebrates America’s 250th anniversary. He is on the board of advisors for Hillsdale’s K-12.

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 an honors Ph.D. in Literature on the education of leading citizens. His lovely wife and their passel of children live in Northern Virginia.