{"id":345,"date":"2026-05-18T09:43:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/bingham\/?page_id=345"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:44:17","slug":"michael-cairo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/bingham\/bingham-endowed-chairs\/michael-cairo\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Professor of Political Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Political science is about the human endeavor, about how we should constitute a government and what is right or best in a society.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Michael Cairo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor of political science
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About Michael Cairo\u2019s Work<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For Michael Cairo<\/a>, political science is inseparable from the larger questions at the heart of a liberal arts education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLearning to be a free thinker on your own and make your own decisions\u201d is central to his approach. In his classroom, students read closely, write regularly, and bring their own interpretations into discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStudents bring the notes that they have from their own mind on how they interpret what we\u2019re reading.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those conversations form the core of the course, testing ideas, refining arguments, and learning to engage differing perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Cairo, teaching excellence is measured not by coverage of material but by student growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTeaching excellence is about getting students to realize their fullest potential.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His courses in international politics and U.S. foreign policy ask students to grapple with questions of conflict, ethics, and global relationships. As they examine issues of war and diplomacy, they are also asked to reconsider assumptions, including their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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