About the Kinder Institute

Founded in 2014 as the Kinder Forum, and re-established as the Kinder Institute in 2015 thanks to a generous gift from the Kinder Foundation of Houston, TX, the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy is a leading space in higher education for the study of political thought and political history, with special emphasis on re-visiting the United States’ founding era and tracing the reverberations of its revolutionary and constitutional origins over time and around the globe. With multiple degree programs and study abroad offerings, along with robust public programming, the Kinder Institute is committed to stoking the civic imagination of students and faculty at MU and communities across and beyond Missouri.