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We’re back with installment two of Kinder Institute undergraduate Elise Milburn’s alumni spotlight series, this time featuring Sam Franks, who was in town in March to receive one of the College of Arts & Science’s 2025 Distinguished Recent Alumni Awards. The College of Arts and Science recently honored Kinder alumna Sam Franks as one of […]

How did early U.S. constitutional democracy develop? How did it evolve from colonial times through the crisis over slavery? What happened to the social forms of constitutional democracy as this political system moved into the interior of the continent? Finally, how are the citizens of rural Missouri today engaging with the history and memory of […]

Thanks to KICD Professor of British History Rob Fletcher, the Kinder Institute is pleased to support a new research initiative on the history of the world’s transcontinental railways. Rail—and especially transcontinental rail—is often understood as a technology that linked up nations, drove economic development, and symbolized modernity. Less understood are the social histories of the […]

In a new series made possible by current Kinder Institute undergraduate Elise Milburn, this is the first of what we hope are many spotlights on alumni of various KICD programs. We recently had the opportunity to catch up with one of our exceptional alumni, Fares Akremi (BA ’15). Part of the first cohort of our […]

The newest addition to our array of study abroad programs developed in partnership with University of Oxford, and the newest collaboration between the Kinder Institute and MU Honors College, the Oxford Summer School will send 20 undergraduate Honors students across the Atlantic each July for a month of study at Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute. As […]

Finalized with the start of the Fall 2024 semester (earlier than ever!), the full Kinder Institute events calendar is now officially live. From our Friday Colloquium Series, to co-sponsored lectures and conferences, to our annual James E. Fleming & Linda C. McClain Constitution Day Lecture, abstracts, times, and locations for all talks can be accessed […]