Named Mississippi Humanities Teacher of the year when he taught in that state, Michael Burger teaches advanced courses in ancient, medieval, and early modern Europe at AUM. He is the author of Bishops, Clerks, and Diocesan Governance in Thirteenth-Century England: Reward and Punishment (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and books with the University of Toronto Press: The Shaping of Western Civilization (2 volumes, third edition, 2024); Reading History (2022); as well as editing Sources for the History of Western Civilization (2 volumes, third edition, 2024). His articles have appeared in Law and Liberty as well as specialized historical journals. He earlier served AUM as Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He once lived in what had been a twelfth-century chapel, which is probably the only interesting thing about him.