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    Joshua Dunn
    National Civics Fellow/Visiting Fellow
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    Joshua Dunn serves as executive director of the Institute of American Civics at the Howard H. Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee. His research and teaching focus on constitutional law and history, education policy, federalism, and freedom of speech and religion. He earned his PhD at the University of Virginia.

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Joshua Dunn serves as executive director of the Institute of American Civics at the Howard H. Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee. His research and teaching focus on constitutional law and history, education policy, federalism, and freedom of speech and religion. His books include Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), From Schoolhouse to Courthouse: The Judiciary’s Role in American Education (Brookings Institution Press, 2009), and Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University (with Jon A. Shields, Oxford University Press, 2016). He writes a quarterly article on law and education for the journal Education Next and his research and commentary have been featured in outlets such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Los Angeles Times.

Previously he was the executive director of the Center for the Study of Government and the Individual at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, where he was also a professor and chair of the Department of Political Science. He was also a fellow in contemporary history, public policy, and American politics at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia and a visiting professor in the Department of Government at the College of William & Mary, where he began his teaching career. He earned his PhD at the University of Virginia.

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