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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 […]
May 11, 2022
Spring 2022 Event Recordings
From “Victorians and Numbers,” to “The Civil Wars of John R. Kelso,” catch up on any of the Spring 2022 KICD talks that you may have missed on the Kinder Institute YouTube page.
May 11, 2022
RECAP: “Victorians & Numbers,” End of Year Colloquium w/ KICD Senior Fellow Lawrence Goldman
While April was a month of conferences and seminars—including an April 29 send-off MRSEAH for longtime friend of the Kinder Institute and former KICD Distinguished Visitor Dan Mandell, who retired from Truman State in May—there was no way the spring semester was ending without one last Friday colloquium. And who better to close the term […]
May 10, 2022
RECAP: “City of Refuge: Evidence of an 18th-Century Great Dismal Swamp Slave Labor Camp,” Inlands Kickoff w/ URI Prof. Marcus Nevius
In 1763, a group of mid-Atlantic enslavers including George Washington dispatched 54 enslaved persons to a 2,000-square mile plot of land that spanned the Virginia-North Carolina border known as the Great Dismal Swamp. As University of Rhode Island Associate Prof. of History Marcus Nevius explored throughout his April 20 talk in Jesse 410, an unofficial […]
March 31, 2022
RECAP: “Thoughts on the World, the Political, and the Black,” Colloquium with Brown University Prof. Ainsley LeSure
Are politics inimical to Black life? That was the question that concluded the abstract for Brown University political theorist Ainsley LeSure’s March 18 talk at the Kinder Institute, which she began by placing her work in conversation with those in the field of Black Studies who would answer this question, ‘yes.’ At its core, the […]