About

Housed in the College of Arts & Science at Mizzou, the Kinder Institute is establishing itself as a leading center for the study of early American history, as well as the reverberations of this history through time and, crucially, across borders. The Institute boasts world-class faculty and staff, half-a-dozen postdoctoral fellowships, and a visiting fellow program that brings internationally-renowned scholars to the University of Missouri. Important, too, are our external partnerships, particularly our transatlantic connections with Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute and the Association of British American Nineteenth-Century Historians.

Of course, it’s only by engaging with students that the impact of our faculty and our partnerships can be maximized. Included among the programs we’ve designed to make this possible are: a first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary B.A. in Constitutional Democracy; a one-year M.A. in Atlantic History & Politics, with a built-in month of study at Oxford; off-campus academic programs in Washington D.C., Cape Town, and the U.K.; and a fortnightly lecture series through which scholars from around the world come to the fourth floor of Jesse Hall to share their research with students, faculty, and members of our community.