Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy

M.A. in Atlantic History & Politics

Applications for the next M.A. cohort are now open!

Kinder Institute Democracy Lab

Re-branded for 2023-24, scholarships for the new cohort of the Kinder Institute Democracy Lab program for first-year Mizzou undergrads, formerly the Kinder Institute Residential College, are now open

B.A. in Constitutional Democracy

A new, interdisciplinary degree in Mizzou's College of Arts & Science

"Electocracy in America & the Atlantic World": Fall 2023 Conference

Call-for-Papers Deadline: March 1, 2023

November 1 Grant Announcement

Thanks to the Kinder Foundation of Houston, Texas, for their continued support of the Kinder Institute

Upcoming Kinder Institute Event

"The History of the World, 1950-2000," Feb. 10 Colloquium with MU Curators' Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus Jonathan Sperber

Kinder Institute Democracy Lab

B.A. in Constitutional Democracy

"Electocracy in America & the Atlantic World": Fall 2023 Conference

November 1 Grant Announcement

Upcoming Kinder Institute Event

OUR PROGRAMS

UNDERGRADUATE

The Kinder Institute prepares Mizzou undergraduate students for lives as thoughtful, informed and engaged citizens.

GRADUATE

The Kinder Institute supports the development of the next generation of professors and scholars of political thought and history.

SCHOLARSHIP

The Kinder Institute advances the work and teaching of faculty whose scholarship focuses on the global history of constitutional democracy.

Isaac Baker, Class of 2020 (Bachelor of Education Studies, BA History)

The route I followed with the Kinder Institute took me from the Society of Fellows, to Oxford, to D.C., and I find the friends I made to be one of the greatest aspects of my experience with these programs.

On the Kinder Institute Undergraduate Experience

From a summer in D.C. with the Kinder Scholars program to her Journal on Constitutional Democracy publication, Riley Messer (Political Science) talks "dreaming big" as a Kinder Institute undergrad.

Lawrence Goldman, St. Peter's College (Oxford) & Kinder Institute Senior Fellow

You come from the heartland, and it is truly the beating heart of America and its history. Within three hours of Columbia, there are places that are central to America's destiny...where, today, American history is remembered.

Kinder Institute Endowed Chair Jay Sexton on the Historian's Craft

What's the secret to being a good historian? Find out here, in this brief interview with Rich & Nancy Kinder Chair in Constitutional Democracy and Professor of History Jay Sexton.