Join us Monday, September 9, at 5 pm, for our annual Constitution Day Lecture. Susan McWilliams Barndt, Professor of Politics at Pomona College, will give a talk entitled “A Tale of Two Liberalisms: Desegregating American Political Thought.”

Political scientists have long observed that American politics has been defined by an individualist liberal tradition that has its roots in the Enlightenment. Professor Barndt argues that this focus has been at the expense of another notion of liberalism rooted in the Exodus story and expressed in African-American political thought.

The Constitution Day Lecture is sponsored by the Department of Political Science, the Tang Teaching Museum, and the Jack Miller Center for Teaching Founding Principles & History.

This lecture is part of Establish, Insure, Provide, Promote: Election 2024.

About the Speaker

Susan McWilliams Barndt is a professor of politics at Pomona College, where she has won the Wig Award for Distinguished Teaching four times. McWilliams is the author and editor of several books, most recently The American Road Trip and American Political Thought (Lexington, 2018), A Political Companion to James Baldwin (Kentucky, 2017), and The Princeton Collection of American Political Thought (Princeton, forthcoming). She is a past winner of the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and the Graves Award in the Humanities.