He is the Graduate Dean and Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College, and the author of two books and the editor of five more.
He has been the dean of the Graduate School since 2010, and he is also the Charles and Lucia Shipley chair in the American Constitution.
[9] Reviewing it for The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Jeffrey Reiman of American University was more critical, dismissing Pestritto's conclusion based on the work of Ramsey Clark and Karl Menninger as "out of date" by three decades.
[10] His second book, Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism, influenced television personality Glenn Beck.
[11] Pestritto is also the editor of five books, three of which he co-edited with Thomas G. West, one of his colleagues at Hillsdale College.