Lynn Uzzell, PhD
My four-year stint as the Scholar in Residence at the Center for the Constitution at James Madison’s Montpelier has enabled me to steep myself in the political ruminations of America’s most intellectually profound statesman. Although most of my recent endeavors have focused on American politics, I have been unwilling to relinquish my broader training in political philosophy. That is why, when given my first opportunity to develop a course entirely to my own specifications at the University of Virginia, I chose to combine an education in Aristotelian rhetoric with an exploration of the ways that the enduring principles of political persuasion were engrafted into America’s constitutional order. I hope always to continue these investigations, both within the pages of the Great Books of Western civilization and within the classroom.