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 Political Development, Summer 2024
American National Government AS, Spring 2024
Awarded a senior fellowship in constitutional studies by the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History to conduct academic and public scholarship on pluralism and constitutional stability.
Awarded a visiting fellowship by the Harvard Center for American Political Studies to write The Myth of Left and Right_ How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Ideas of Power_ The Politics of American Party Ideology Development (Cambridge University Press, 2019) was awarded a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, which is given to the top 10% of academic books reviewed by the Association of College and Research Libraries each year for excellent scholarship.
Awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the Stanford Department of Political Science to write Ideas of Power_ The Politics of American Party Ideology Development (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
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.
