Michael Daniel Driessen

Michael D. Driessen is the Director of the MA program in International Affairs at John Cabot University where he is also an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. Driessen also directs the Rome Summer Seminars on Religion and Global Politics and is a research affiliate at the von Hügel Institute at Cambridge University. Michael received his doctorate from the University of Notre Dame and has been a post-doctoral fellow at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar as well as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Driessen’s books include The Global Politics of Interreligious Dialogue (Oxford University Press, 2023), Human Fraternity and Inclusive Citizenship: Interreligious Engagement in the Mediterranean (ISPI, 2021; co-edited with Fabio Petito and Fadi Daou), and Religion and Democratization (Oxford University Press, 2014). He has published scholarly articles in Comparative Politics, Sociology of Religion, Politics and Religion, Constellations and Democratization and essays in America Magazine and Commonweal. Michael also serves as an advisor for the Adyan Foundation in Lebanon.