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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 […]
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 […]