Lex Renda

Lex Renda is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM), with an affiliated appointment in Urban Studies. He holds a PhD from the University of Virginia (1991) and serves as Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History. His administrative roles include coordinating summer and UWinteriM instruction for the College of Letters and Science. Renda specializes in 19th-century U.S. political and legal history, with particular focus on the American Civil War era, antislavery politics, and quantitative methods in historical research. His teaching portfolio includes courses on American constitutional history, statistical analysis of historical data, and the political history of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Research interests span Jacksonian America, Supreme Court politics, and the intersection of law and society. His publications include scholarly reviews in journals such as Historical Methods, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and Civil War History, along with a monograph on agrarian republicanism and Civil War-era dynamics. He regularly teaches courses like Quantitative Analysis of Historical Data (Hist 595) and Readings in American Political History (Hist 800).

No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned, though his academic contributions reflect sustained engagement with interdisciplinary historical methodologies. His administrative leadership underscores his commitment to undergraduate education and program coordination within the College of Letters and Science.