Faculty Member
Verlan Lewis is the Stirling Professor of Constitutional Studies, and associate professor of political science, at UVU where he researches, teaches, and writes about the interaction of ideas and institutions in American politics. His writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Hill, Political Science Quarterly, Party Politics, Studies in American Political Development, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and The Forum. His first book, Ideas of Power, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. His second book, The Myth of Left and Right, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023.
Major: Political Science
Major: Government
Major: Political Thought & Intellectual History
American National Government AS, Spring 2024
Awarded a 2021-2022 visiting fellowship by the Harvard Center for American Political Studies to write my co-authored book on The Myth of Left and Right (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Awarded to the top 10% of academic books reviewed by the Association of College and Research Libraries each year for excellent scholarship, my 2019 book Ideas of Power was honored as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title.
Awarded a 2015-2017 postdoctoral fellowship by the Stanford Department of Political Science to write my book on The Politics of American Party Ideology Development (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Awarded a fellowship to participate in the Jack Miller Center's 2014 Summer Institute in Philadelphia.
Awarded funding from the University of Virginia Department of Politics to study for a Ph.D. in Government from 2010-2015.
Recognized distinction for my M.Phil. dissertation in the Political Thought and Intellectual History program.
