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January 7, 2021
2021-22 Undergraduate Oxford Fellowship Applications Now Open
The Kinder Institute is currently accepting applications from rising MU juniors and seniors for its 2021-22 Oxford Fellowship program. Oxford Fellows will spend a full, three-term academic year at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, as an embedded student of history. Application instructions and program details and logistics can be found in the call below. […]
December 7, 2020
RECAP: “Talking Back to Thomas Jefferson: African-American Nationalism in the Early Republic,” Colloquium with U. Penn Professor Mia Bay
Though it was produced centuries after the time period on which her December 4 talk focused, University of Pennsylvania Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History Mia Bay cited the juxtaposition of Thomas Jefferson and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Faith Ringgold’s 2009 “As Free and Independent States” as embodying exactly […]
December 7, 2020
Fall 2020 Colloquium Recordings: Catch Up on the Action Here
One of the advantages of shifting to the world of Zoom is that we were able to record many of our talks from the Fall 2020 semester. So, if there was a colloquium you missed that you want to catch up on—or one you attended that you want to re-visit—use the links below to access […]
November 30, 2020
RECAP: “A Union, Not a Nation-State: The Constitution as a Federal Treaty,” Colloquium w/ King’s College London’s Max Edling
Providing a sneak peek of his forthcoming Oxford University Press monograph, Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the U.S. Constitution, King’s College London Reader in Early American History Max Edling began his October 9 talk at the Kinder Institute, delivered via Zoom from Sweden, by describing how his ambition for the book is […]
November 30, 2020
RECAP: “Anglican Evangelism and the Maintenance of Slavery in the 18th-Century Atlantic World,” Colloquium w/ MU’s Daive Dunkley
Drawn from a larger project examining the Anglican Church’s involvement in British slave trafficking in the Americas, MU Associate Professor of Black Studies Daive Dunkley’s November 20th talk for the Fall 2020 Kinder Institute Zoom Colloquium Series focused on a number of evangelical actors who history often—and problematically—miscasts as having some abolitionist leanings. Specifically, Prof. […]
November 19, 2020
RECAP: “Who’s Responsible for Constitutional Rights?” Zoom Colloquium w/ Notre Dame’s Christina Bambrick
In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled in DeShaney v. Winnebago County that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States does not create an obligation on behalf of the state to prevent child abuse when (a) the child is in the custody of a parent and (b) the state did not create or […]