January 14th – Constitutional Chats Podcast

Co-host: “This Constitution” Podcast, produced by Center for Constitution Studies at Utah Valley University

Savannah Eccles Johnston is an assistant professor of Political Science at Salt Lake Community College.

She received her PhD in political science from Claremont Graduate University. Her research focuses on ideology and American political thought.

Her dissertation, What Enemy Hath Done This: The Death of the Fusion Movement and the Rise of Illiberal Conservatism, focuses on the theoretical division within the fusion (modern conservative) movement between classical liberalism and traditionalist conservatism and demonstrates how illiberalism—or the theoretical critique of liberalism—has gained the upper hand within the conservative intellectual movement over time.