Miller Center Fellowships in American Politics, Foreign Policy and World Politics

The Miller Center Fellowship program is a competitive program for individuals completing their dissertations on American politics, foreign policy and world politics, or the impact of global affairs on the United States. The program provides up to eight $20,000 grants to support one year of research and writing. Along with the fellowship grant, the Miller Center assists the fellow in choosing a senior scholar as fellowship "mentor" who will make suggestions on the literature in which the fellow should frame the project, read the fellow's work, and give general advice on research.

• Current Miller Center Fellows 2008-2009
• Download the 2008-2009 Fellowship Application
• Meet the Former Fellows (2000-2007)
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• Meet the Mentors
• Newly Published Works by Miller Center Fellows

The Miller Center encourages applicants from a broad range of disciplines, including, but not limited to, history, political science, policy studies, law, political economy, and sociology. Applicants will be judged on their scholarly quality and on their potential to shed new light upon contemporary developments in American Politics, Foreign Policy, or World Politics.

The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia also invites applications for the Wilson Carey McWilliams Fellowship. The McWilliams Fellowship supports a graduate student in political science or history whose dissertation combines the special blend of Political Theory and American Politics that characterized the late Wilson Carey McWilliams's extraordinary scholarship. The applicant must be a Ph.D. candidate who is expecting to complete his or her dissertation by the conclusion of the fellowship year. The McWilliams fellow will participate in the regular Miller Center Fellowship program, and will also be paired with a fellowship "mentor."

Requirements: An applicant must be 1) a Ph.D. candidate who is expecting to complete his or her dissertation by the conclusion of the fellowship year; or 2) an independent scholar working on a book. This is not a post-doctoral fellowship.

Residence is strongly encouraged but is not required. All fellows are expected to participate in and contribute to the intellectual discourse at the Center. Each fellow is also expected to participate in a conference in Fall 2008 and May 2009. These conferences will provide a forum for presenting research and findings to the scholarly community at the Miller Center and the University of Virginia.

To Apply: Send two complete copies of your application to:

Miller Center National Fellowship Program
Miller Center of Public Affairs
2201 Old Ivy Rd
P.O. Box 400406
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4406

Both sets of materials should be in the following order: 1) applicant information sheet, 2) project description, 3) op-ed proposal, 4) bibliography, 5) curriculum vitae, 6) writing sample, 7) TWO letters of recommendation. Letters of recommendation may also be mailed separately.

All applications for the Miller Center Fellowships must be postmarked by February 1, 2008. Applicants will be notified of the selection committee's decision in April 2008.

Inquiries about the Miller Center Fellowship should be directed to Laura Phillips by e-mail at ldp8h@virginia.edu or by phone at 434-924-4694.

Download the 2008-2009 Fellowship Application

Contact Laura Phillips if you have further questions.