Miller Center

The Miller Center National Fellowship Program

2011 Spring Fellowship Conference

The University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs will host the 2011-12 Miller Center National Fellowship Conference, on Thursday, May 12 & Friday, May 13 at the Miller Center in Charlottesville, Va.

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Conference Schedule

Thursday, May 12, 2011
9:30A.M.

Reconfiguring the State Abroad and at Home

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Moderator:
Risa Goluboff,
University of Virginia, School of Law


Fellow:
Katherine Unterman,
Yale University


Mentor:
Lisa Cobbs Hoffman,
San Diego State University

Nowhere to Hide:
International Rendition and American Power


Fellow:
Quinn Mulroy,
Columbia University


Mentor:
Dan Carpenter,
Harvard University

Private Litigation, Public Policy Enforcement:
The Regulatory Power of Private Litigation and the American Bureaucracy

Thursday, May 12, 2011
11:45A.M. Lunch Panel

Remaking Community in Post-World War II America

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Moderator:
Guian McKee,
University of Virginia


Fellow:
Francesca Ammon,
Yale University


Mentor:
Edmund Russell,
University of Virginia

Waging War on the Landscape:
Demolition and Clearance in Postwar America


Fellow:
Merlin Chowkwanyun,
University of Pennsylvania


Mentor:
Nancy Langston,
University of Wisconsin

The Dilemmas of ‘Community Health’: 1945-2000

Thursday, May 12, 2011
2:00P.M.

Balancing Secrecy and Transparency in American Foreign Relations:
Perspectives on the Wikileaks Phenomenon

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Seth Center,
Office of the Historian, Department of State


P. J. Crowley,
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs


Siva Vaidhyanathan,
University of Virginia

Friday, May 13, 2011
9:15A.M.

Welcome Remarks: Gerald L. Baliles, Director

Prestige and Leadership in International Relations

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Moderator:
Marc Selverstone,
University of Virginia


Fellow:
Jonathan Renshon,
Harvard University


Mentor:
William Wohlforth,
Dartmouth College

Fighting for Status:
Prestige Motivations and Conflict in World Politics


Fellow:
James G. Wilson,
University of Virginia


Mentor:
Jeremi Suri,
University of Wisconsin

Bolts from the Blue:
The United States, the Soviet Union, and the End of the Cold War

Friday, May 13, 2011
11:45A.M. Lunch Panel

Manuscript Review
Ira Katznelson, Fear Itself: New Deal Democracy in a Southern Cage (Forthcoming: Norton, 2012)

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Moderator:
Brian Balogh,
University of Virginia


Ira Katznelson,
Columbia University


David Kennedy,
Stanford University


Daryl Michael Scott,
Howard University


Richard Valelly,
Swarthmore College

Friday, May 13, 2011
2:00P.M.

Imposing Order: Great Power Preferences & the International System

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Moderator:
Will Hitchcock,
University of Virginia


Fellow:
Sarah S. Bush,
Princeton University


Mentor:
Miles Kahler,
University of California, San Diego

The Democracy Establishment


Fellow:
Kyle Lascurettes,
University of Virginia


Mentor:
John Ikenberry,
Princeton University

Orders of Exclusion:
The Strategic Sources of International Orders and Great Power Ordering Preferences