September 2016
JUSTIN BUCKLEY DYER
University of Missouri Ÿ Department of Political Science
218 Professional Building Ÿ Columbia, Missouri 65211-6030
Ph: 573-882-3777/ E-mail: [email protected]
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
• Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri, 2014-present
• Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri, 2009-2014
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
• Founding Director, Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy 2015-present
• Founding Director, Kinder Forum on Constitutional Democracy, 2014-2015
EDUCATION
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Ph.D., Government, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009
M.A., Government, The University of Texas at Austin, 2008
M.P.A., Public Administration, University of Oklahoma, 2006
B.A., Political Science, summa cum laude & Phi Beta Kappa, University of Oklahoma, 2005
RESEARCH
Books
• Dyer, Justin Buckley and Micah J. Watson. 2016. C.S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law.
New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Dyer, Justin Buckley. 2013. Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning. New
York: Cambridge University Press.
• Dyer, Justin Buckley. 2012. Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition. New
York: Cambridge University Press.
• Dyer, Justin Buckley, ed. 2012. American Soul: The Contested Legacy of the Declaration of
Independence. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. (Foreword by David L. Boren)
Journal Articles
• Dyer, Justin Buckley. 2015. “Lewis, Barth, and the Natural Law.” Journal of Church and State
57(1): 1-17.
• Dyer, Justin Buckley and Kevin E. Stuart. 2013. “Public Reason and the Theological
Framework of Martin Luther King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham City Jail.’” Politics and Religion
6(1): 145-163.
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• Dyer, Justin Buckley. 2010. “Revisiting Dred Scott: Prudence, Providence, and the Limits of
Constitutional Statesmanship.” Perspectives on Political Science 39(3): 166-74.
• Dyer, Justin Buckley. 2010. “Slavery and the Magna Carta in the Development of AngloAmerican Constitutionalism.” PS: Political Science and Politics 43(3): 479-482.
• Dyer, Justin Buckley. 2009. “After the Revolution: Somerset and the Antislavery Tradition in
Anglo-American Constitutional Development.” Journal of Politics 71(4): 1422-1434.
• Dyer, Justin Buckley. 2009. “Lincolnian Natural Right, Dred Scott, and the Jurisprudence of
John McLean.” Polity 41(1): 63-85.
Encyclopedia Entries
• Dyer, Justin Buckley. 2016. “Natural Rights.” In American Governance, ed. Stephen L.
Schechter, 5 vols. Detroit: Macmillan.
• Dyer, Justin Buckley. 2016. “Slavery.” In American Governance, ed. Stephen L. Schechter, 5
vols. Detroit: Macmillan.
• Dyer, Justin Buckley. 2016. “Unenumerated Rights.” In American Governance, ed. Stephen L.
Schechter, 5 vols. Detroit: Macmillan.
COURSES TAUGHT
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General Honors 2010: Crisis and Constitutional Government (Undergraduate)
Political Science 1100: American Government (Undergraduate)
Political Science 2800: Liberty, Justice, and the Common Good (Undergraduate)
Political Science 4210: Constitutional Rights (Undergraduate)
Political Science 4200: The American Constitution (Undergraduate)
Political Science 9200: Judicial Behavior (Graduate)
Political Science 9230: Public Law (Graduate)
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
• “Substantive Due Process and American Jurisprudence,” Georgetown Law Center, Washington,
DC, October 6, 2016.
• “Abraham Lincoln and Natural Law,” Seminar in Constitutional Thought and History,
Rothemere American Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, April 28, 2016.
• “The Future of American Political Thought,” Conference on American Political Thought and the
History of Political Thought sponsored by the Tocqueville Forum on American Ideals and
Institutions at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas, March 5, 2016.
• “Jefferson and the Political Theology of the Declaration of Independence,” Southern Political
Science Association Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 9, 2016.
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• “Subversive Theology and the Declaration of Independence,” Shawnee Trail Regional Seminar
on American Politics and Constitutionalism, Columbia, Missouri, May 22, 2015.
• “C.S. Lewis as Political Theorist: The Early Modern Turn and the Abolition of Man,”
Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, April 19, 2014.
• “Lewis, Barth, and the Natural Law,” Seventh Biennial Symposium on Religion and Politics,
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 26, 2013.
• “History and the Political Construction of Constitutional Abortion Rights,” Southern Political
Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 14, 2012.
• “Public Reason and the Theological Framework of Martin Luther King’s ‘Letter from
Birmingham City Jail,’” Inaugural Symposium of the Statesmanship Center at Morehead State
University, Lexington, Kentucky, April 16, 2011.
• “Natural Law and Constitutional Disharmony in John Quincy Adams’s Amistad Argument,”
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., September 4, 2010.
• “After the Revolution: Somerset and the Antislavery Tradition in Anglo-American
Constitutional Development,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston,
Massachusetts, August 28, 2008.
• “Lincolnian Natural Right, Dred Scott, and the Jurisprudence of John McLean,” Southwestern
Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 14, 2008.
• “Legal Injustice in the Thomist Tradition and the Case of Civil Disobedience,” International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 12, 2007.
SERVICE
University Service
• University of Missouri Press Editorial Board Member (2014-present)
• Provost’s Junior Research Award Committee (2014, 2015)
• Intercollegiate Athletics Committee (2011-2014)
• Graduate School Fellowship Awards Committee (2014)
• Press Director Search Committee (2013)
Department Service
• Director, Undergraduate Minor in American Constitutional Democracy
• Awards Committee (2014-2015)
• Undergraduate Studies Committee (2009-2010, 2013-2014)
• Lectures Committee (2010-2011, 2011-2012)
• Graduate Studies Committee (2011-2012, 2012-2013)
• Executive Committee (2011-2012; 2014-2016)
• Search Committees
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o Public Policy (2013)
o Chair, American Politics Post-Doc and Research Fellows (2013-2014, 2014-2015)
o Chair, American Politics (2015-2016, 2016-2017)
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
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Friars Chapter of Mortar Board, Honorary Tap (2016)
College of Arts & Science Faculty Fellow (2015-2016)
Excellence in Education Award, MU Division of Student Affairs (2015)
Research Council Summer Fellowship, University of Missouri (2015)
Kappa Alpha Theta National Top Ten Outstanding Professors Award (2015)
Earhart Foundation Summer Research Fellowship (2013)
Campus Writing Program Course Development Grant (2013)
Alpha Chi Omega Outstanding Professor Award (2013)
Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Research and Creative Activity Award (2012)
Research Council Summer Fellowship, University of Missouri (2011)
University of Oklahoma Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2005, 2006)
NCAA Academic All-American (2004, 2005, 2006)
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