Dear IACH members, students and friends,
After nearly five years as director of the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage, Dr. Kevin Butterfield will be leaving the University of Oklahoma for another opportunity. Beginning later this summer, Dr. Butterfield will become the new executive director of George Washington's presidential library, known as the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington.
The Washington Library at Mount Vernon was founded in 2013 and has since been the leading center for the study of America's first president.
"The opportunity to think and to teach about our nation's constitutional history has been tremendously fulfilling, and I am so grateful to the amazing people I've come to know along the way," Kevin Butterfield said following the news. "I look forward to further exploring America's founding at George Washington's Mount Vernon, and I am extremely appreciative of my years spent at the University of Oklahoma and the IACH."
In addition to his IACH directorship, Dr. Butterfield currently holds an appointment as Wick Cary Professor and Associate Professor of Classics and Letters. During his time running the institute, Dr. Butterfield has spearheaded large-scale annual events, like the Teach-In, and timely lectures from Supreme Court and constitutional historians. Additionally, he has overseen a website redesign, welcomed more than 60 new Fellows, and led a Constitutional Studies book club for the past four years.
He has been a faculty member in OU's Department of Classics and Letters since 2010 and is the author of The Making of Tocqueville’s America: Law and Association in the Early United States (University of Chicago Press, 2015).
