Lynn Uzzell is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Bethel University. She specializes in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and the political thought of James Madison. Her current projects include studies on 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.