Lucas Morel is the John K. Boardman, Jr. Professor of Politics and Head of the Politics Department at Washington and Lee University. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Claremont Graduate School. He is a Worsham Teaching Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Van Andel Graduate School of Government in Washington, D.C., and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. Dr. Morel is the author of Lincoln and the American Founding and Lincoln’s Sacred Effort: Defining Religion’s Role in American Self-Government; and editor of Lincoln and Liberty: Wisdom for the Ages. He recently co-edited Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln (October 2025). He conducts high school teacher workshops for the Jack Miller Center, Gilder-Lehrman Institute, Hillel International-Civic Spirit, and Liberty Fund. Dr. Morel is a board member and former president of the Abraham Lincoln Institute; a founding member of the Academic Freedom Alliance; a trustee of the Supreme Court Historical Society; a consultant for the Library of Congress, National Archives, and the National Constitution Center; and currently serves on the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, which will plan activities to commemorate the founding of the United States of America.

Lucas Morel is a member of the Jack Miller Center Board of Directors.