Morgan Marietta
Professor, Institute of American Civics
Specialities: Political Consequences of Belief, focusing on Constitutional Politics, Political Psychology, and Facts in Politics
Biography
Morgan Marietta is a Professor of American Civics at the University of Tennessee. He studies the political consequences of belief, focusing on constitutional politics, political psychology, and facts in politics. He is the author of four books: A Citizen’s Guide to American Ideology, A Citizen’s Guide to the Constitution and the Supreme Court, The Politics of Sacred Rhetoric: Absolutist Appeals and Political Persuasion, and most recently One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts in American Democracy. His studies of contemporary politics have appeared in the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and the American Political Science Review.
From 2018 to 2023, he served as the founding editor of the annual SCOTUS series at Palgrave Macmillan on the major rulings of the Supreme Court. He is completing a freely available textbook for undergraduates studying and debating the U.S. Constitution (Constitutional Law & Theory: The Classic & Contemporary Cases) and his current book project is The Supreme Court of Facts, on the role of the Court in addressing disputed perceptions of reality. Recent commentary on constitutional politics and the Civic Thought Movement has appeared in Newsweek, The American Mind, the British Spectator, and Law & Liberty. He is a regular writer for The Conversation on the recent rulings of the Supreme Court. Prior to joining the Institute of American Civics, he served as a Dean at the University of Austin (UATX).
Education
- B. Phil., Economics and Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
- M.S., History and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
- Ph.D., Political Science, University of Pittsburgh