Robert John Burton
Position title: Menard Family Post-doctoral Fellow Alumnus
Email: rburton@uvu.edu
Robert John Burton is director of the Civic Thought and Leadership Initiative at Utah Valley University’s Center for Constitutional Studies. His research and teaching occur in the fields of constitutional law, American political thought, and political philosophy, focusing on civic education, the First Amendment, and the relationship between conscience and politics. His current book project is titled, A Conscience Safe for Politics: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and the Formation of the Modern Conscience. He was a post-doctoral fellow in the CSLD from 2020-2021.