Morgan Marietta is a Professor for the Institute of American Civics at the Howard H. Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He studies the political consequences of belief, with a focus on constitutional politics, political psychology, and facts in politics. Marietta is the author of A Citizen’s Guide to American Ideology, A Citizen’s Guide to the Constitution and the Supreme Court, The Politics of Sacred Rhetoric, and One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts in American Democracy. He also served as the founding editor of the annual Supreme Court of the United States series at Palgrave Macmillan.

Prior to joining the Baker School, he served as a dean at the University of Austin and a department chair at the University of Texas at Arlington. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pittsburgh.