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June 29, 2020
Distinguished MU Alumna Jean Becker Joins Kinder Institute Advisory Board
On Monday, June 29, 2020, the Kinder Institute announced that MU alumna Jean Becker, formerly chief of staff for George H. W. Bush, will join the KICD Advisory Board, effective July 1. Read on here for the full press release detailing Monday’s announcement.
May 21, 2020
Summer Online at the Kinder Institute
A wholesale scrapping of all spring events being a fully unsatisfactory prospect, we’ve decided to join the Zoom movement (Zoovement?) and re-locate as many talks as possible to the virtual realm. We’ll be back online starting on June 5, after taking a brief post-semester hiatus to re-group, but for now, you can catch up on […]
May 11, 2020
RECAP: “The Centrality of Slavery: Settlement, Enslavement, and Middle Class Slaveholders in Missouri, 1770-1820,” Online Colloquium w/ Prof. John Craig Hammond
In providing a preview of what will be the lead chapter in the forthcoming MU Press/Studies in Constitutional Democracy monograph re-visiting the Missouri Crisis at 200, Penn State University-New Kensington Prof. John Craig Hammond, who will edit that volume along with Kinder Institute Associate Director Jeff Pasley, highlighted how little is actually known about the […]
May 8, 2020
Dr. Thomas Kane named a finalist for the 2020 Mick Deaver Memorial Award for Student Relations Excellence!
We are thrilled to announce that our very own Dr. Thomas Kane was named a finalist for the 2020 Mick Deaver Memorial Award for Student Relations Excellence! The Mick Deaver award seeks “to honor a staff member who exemplifies Mick Deaver’s concern for fostering good relations with students.” Since he joined the Kinder Institute on […]
May 5, 2020
RECAP: “Divided Houses: The Long History of American Secession Movements,” with Prof. Ken Owen
The Pacific Northwest, where Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow Ken Owen geographically began, embodies the two major takeaways from his May 1 Zoom colloquium: that secession is entrenched in the American political story and that it’s nearly impossible to singularly characterize the motivations behind secession movements. As to the former, almost as soon as the boundaries […]
April 29, 2020
“A rare one”: Faramola Shonekan, Mizzou’s newest Mark Twain Fellow
The story of Faramola Shonekan’s journey to becoming Mizzou’s 2020 Mark Twain Fellow has already been told in a couple different places. MU’s Fellowships Office did a wonderful write-up about April 28th’s surprise announcement (hat-tip to our own Jay Sexton for helping pull off the ruse), and Columbia’s local paper covered her exceptional undergraduate career […]