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May 12, 2023
Kinder Institute Alum Paul Odu Receives 2023 Mark Twain Fellowship
As an undergraduate, Paul Odu did more or less everything that the Kinder Institute offers Mizzou students. He was in the Society of Fellows and wrote for the Journal on Constitutional Democracy; he studied in D.C. as a member of the Kinder Scholars Program and at Corpus Christi College as our 2021-22 Oxford Fellow; he […]
May 12, 2023
RECAP: “Lessons from the Legacy of Broken Concord,” Spring 2023 Keynote w/ Prof. Stephen Aron
Views on the history of the American West have shifted drastically, and importantly, in recent decades. What was once a celebration of destiny manifested has become an indictment of ruthless expansion. The language of social progress, political democracy, and economic development has been replaced by ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism, and genocide. Brutal fact, in other […]
May 11, 2023
Kinder Alumni Council Member Sam Franks Chosen as 2023 FAPSE Fellow
It’s with great pleasure that we get to announce that Sam Franks, an inaugural member of the Society of Fellows, Kinder Scholars D.C. Summer Program, and Kinder Institute Alumni Council, and a graduate of University of Michigan Law School, was one of 14 graduate students and early-career professional practitioners chosen to take part in the […]
May 10, 2023
RECAP: “Challenging the New Deal’s ‘Contemptible Neglect’,” 4/14 Colloquium w/ Univ. of Mississippi Prof. Jarod Roll
Representing the full diversity of the Depression-era working class, UCAPAWA—United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers—faced an uphill battle from the very start. On balance, their constituents were unappealing candidates for unionization: poorly and irregularly paid and rarely in one place for long, making dues collection difficult. Compounding this was that many lived under racialized […]
April 11, 2023
RECAP: “The Third Empire: Abolition in Alaska & the Pacific Northwest,” April 7 Colloquium w/ Penn State Prof. Christina Snyder
While Penn State McCabe Greer Professor of History Christina Snyder’s April 14 talk at the Kinder Institute would eventually get to the Pacific Northwest, it began along the banks of the Red River in what is now Oklahoma, where Wallace and Minerva Burton were enslaved by a Chickasaw woman who leased them to the Choctaw […]
March 23, 2023
RECAP: “Displays of Force: Black Rebellion & the Spectacular Violence of Police,” March 17 Colloquium w/ Smith College Prof. Erin Pineda
“The whole world is watching,” chanted by anti-Vietnam War protestors outside the Democratic National Convention in 1968 as they were beaten and arrested by Chicago police, was then—and remains today—an utterance rich with political possibility. What, exactly, this possibility is, Smith College Phyllis C. Rappaport ’68 New Century Term Professor of Government Erin Pineda showed […]