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Constitution Day: The Constitution vs. Democracy
September 17, 2024
The annual Constitution Day program offers unique insight on constitutional questions that shape American democracy. Join the Hauenstein Center's Scholar-in-residence Dr. Nicole Hemmer for a look at how the Constitution occasionally clashes with American’s popular understanding of democracy, and what this means for politics today.
The Hauenstein Center Scholar-in-Residence serves as a special expert resource for the Center and West Michigan community on the American presidency and current events.
“If the rest of this year's presentations are as good as last night's, we are in for a good year.”
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Constitution Day 2024 - Full Event
Keynote Speaker
Nicole Hemmer
Nicole Hemmer is associate professor of history and director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University. A historian specializing in media, conservatism, and the presidency, she is the author of two books: Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics and Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s. She is co-host of the podcast This Day in Esoteric Political History from Radiotopia.
A prolific writer and speaker, Hemmer regularly writes for leading national and international outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vox, and CNN.