Professor Scott Yenor is Chairman of Political Science at Boise State University and Director of the American Founding Initiative, which he founded to promote ideas of limited government, classical liberty and constitutionalism in Idaho's largest university.  

He teaches American Political Thought and courses in political philosophy.  He has written on a variety of topic, including the relationship between reason and revelation, the American executive, and Progressive historiography.  His first book, Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought, was released by Baylor University Press in February 2011.  That book argues that ideas of contract and consent in today's political discourse do not describe the real experience of marriage and family life and that the future of limited government requires rejuvenating marriage and family life.  

He is currently working on a second book on American Reconstruction, tentatively entitled Reconstruction and the Problem of Statesmanship.

He lives in Meridian with his wife Amy and his five children, Jackson, Travis, Sarah, Paul, and Mark.