Lynn Uzzell

Job Title

• Associate Professor of Political Science
  History, Philosophy, and Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences

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Lynn Uzzell joined the HiPPos department in 2024 as Associate Professor of Political Science. 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. She was also 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 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. As a professor, Uzzell has a passion for teaching effective and civil communication as an anecdote to today’s divisive partisanship. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking for friends and family, going on long country rambles, and tending her kitchen garden.

Started at Bethel

2024

Education

• Black Hills State University - B.A. in Speech Communications, 1994
• University of Dallas - M.A. in Politics, 1999
• University of Dallas - Ph.D. in Politics, 2008