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September 12, 2022
RECAP: “The Historian’s Case against the Independent State Legislature Theory,” Colloquium w/ George Mason Historian Rosemarie Zagarri
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear Moore v. Harper, a case which will rule on whether the North Carolina Supreme Court was within its constitutional right to overturn the state legislature’s most recent redistricted congressional maps. This much is clear: Per Article I, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, state legislatures are empowered to […]
September 8, 2022
RECAP: “Birth Control Law and Reform in the Age before Roe,” Colloquium w/ Kennesaw State Prof. Lauren MacIvor Thompson
If the leak of the Dobbs decision was a surprise, the ruling was anything but. As Kennesaw State Assistant Prof. of History Lauren MacIvor Thompson noted in introducing her September 2 talk at the Kinder Institute, the rolling back of Roe was entirely consistent with how the story of women in the United States has […]
August 12, 2022
Fall 2022 Kinder Institute Events Calendar Now Live!
Kicking off on September 2 with Prof. Lauren MacIvor Thompson’s talk on “Birth Control Law and Reform in the Age before Roe” and wrapping up three months later with Prof. Jörg Nagler’s December 2 Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow Lecture reflecting on “A Global History of the American Civil War,” fall programming at the Kinder Institute […]
June 30, 2022
Notes from the Capital, June Edition
We’re back with year eight of our Notes from the Capital series! As a reminder, every summer, 20 rising juniors and seniors head east from Columbia to spend June and July working, studying, and exploring in D.C. as part of our Kinder Scholars Program. Busy as they are, they’re always willing to take some time […]
June 29, 2022
Paul Ambrose Receives Inaugural KICD Alumni Council Scholarship
The Kinder Institute Alumni Council, formed in Fall 2019 and comprised of graduates of one (or more) of the Institute’s undergraduate programs, is thrilled to announce that Paul Ambrose, an MU Senior studying Constitutional Democracy and Economics (bio below), received the first Alumni Council Scholarship. Designed to provide financial assistance to students of diverse backgrounds […]
June 16, 2022
Prof. Jay Sexton Named New Kinder Institute Director
Today, University of Missouri Provost Latha Ramchand announced the appointment of Jay Sexton as the new director of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, effective July 1. Sexton is currently the Rich and Nancy Kinder Chair in Constitutional Democracy and professor of history and has been at the Institute since 2016. “Dr. Sexton is a […]