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October 2, 2019
“Ask the Experts” with Newsy (follow-up): Prof. Marvin Overby on House GOP Retirements
In a follow-up to his previous conversation with Newsy Channel Manager Cliff Judy on how retirements and seeking higher office could impact 2020 elections, Professor of Political Science and Kinder Institute Affiliate Faculty Member Marvin Overby focused specifically in this second interview on the long-term and short-term factors that explain why, for decades, House Republicans […]
October 1, 2019
“Ask the Experts” with Newsy: Prof. Marvin Overby on Congressional Retirements and the 2020 Elections
As part of the Kinder Institute’s ongoing participation in Newsy’s “Ask the Experts” video series, MU Professor of Political Science and KICD Affiliate Faculty Member Marvin Overby sat down with Newsy Channel Manager Cliff Judy to chat about the effect of congressional retirements and decisions to run for higher office in an age of “super […]
September 21, 2019
Recap: “The Lost Constitution,” Constitution Day Lecture w/ Stanford Prof. Jonathan Gienapp
Back for an encore re-telling of the U.S. constitutional backstory (he gave a Valentine’s Day 2019 talk on this subject at the Kinder Institute), Stanford Assistant Professor of History Jonathan Gienapp focused this time around on two figures from the 1787 Convention whose contributions to the drafting of the Constitution have largely been forgotten: James […]
September 17, 2019
Recap: “Americans and the German University System,” with Vanderbilt’s David Blackbourn
Culture being, as Raymond Williams described it, “one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language,” tracking its transfer is a somewhat elusive proposition. Be that as it may, Vanderbilt University Distinguished Professor and Chair of History David Blackbourn made clear in his September 6 talk at the Kinder Institute that […]
August 30, 2019
Recap: “Thomas Jefferson: A Life of Learning, and a Life in the Law,” with Washington University’s David Konig
Though he’s frequently credited with being its first utterer, Jefferson did not, in fact, introduce “that government is best which governs least” into the public (and, following that, the bumper sticker) lexicon. What he actually said, in a 1788 letter to William Stephens Smith, was far more poetic and nuanced: “we are now vibrating between […]
August 30, 2019
Call-for-Applications: Fall 2019 Faculty and Graduate Student Research & Travel Grants
The Kinder Institute is pleased to announce that Fall 2019 applications for research and travel grants are now open for all MU faculty and graduate students. The deadline to apply is October 18, 2019, and all application instructions can be accessed using the link below. Fall 2019 Research & Travel Grant Call-for-Applications Any questions can […]