Lynn Uzzell

Jack Miller Center Founding Civics Initiative Faculty
Assistant Professor, Bethel University

Lynn Uzzell is Associate Professor of Political Science at Bethel University. Previously, she was the scholar in residence at the Center for the Constitution at James Madison’s Montpelier and the founding director of the Summer Civics Institute at the University of Virginia.

She specializes in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and the political thought of James Madison. Her current projects include studies in the integrity of Madison’s Notes of the Constitutional Convention, Madison’s understanding of the Free Exercise clause, and Madison’s antislavery constitutionalism. She has previously taught at Baylor University, the University of Richmond, the University of Virginia, and Washington and Lee University.

Dr. Uzzell received her B.A. in speech communications at Black Hills State University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in politics at the University of Dallas.

Research interests:
Constitutional history
James Madison
Political philosophy
Slavery

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