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Placement for Former Miller Center Fellows
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Miller Center Mentors 2007 - 2008 Kwame Appiah Kwame Appiah, Princeton University Kwame Anthony Appiah is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. His research interests include the ethics and philosophy of the mind and language, political philosophy, and African and African-American intellectual history. His recent publications include Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, The Ethics of Identity, and Thinking It Through. Among his other books are In My Father’s House, Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (co-authored with Amy Gutmann), and Bu Me Bé: Proverbs of the Akan (co-authored with Peggy Appiah).  Lawrence Brown Lawrence Brown, Columbia University Lawrence Brown, Columbia University Professor of Health Policy and Management, is an expert in the fields of health care reform, health care policy, competition and regulation, and the uninsured. He has written many books and articles, including Health Policy and the Disadvantaged; Politics and Health Care Organizations: Health Maintenance Organizations as Federal Policy; “Competition and the New Accountability: Do Market Incentives and Medical Outcomes Conflict or Cohere?” in Competitive Approaches to Health Care Reform; and “The National Politics of Oregon's Rationing Plan,” in Health Affairs (Summer 1991).  Dan Carpenter Dan Carpenter, Harvard University Daniel Carpenter is Professor of Government at Harvard University. His current research interests include the regulation of pharmaceutical products by the Food and Drug Administration; “placebo learning” and its effects on the evaluation of medical services and pharmaceutical therapies; and the coverage of disease in the mass media. Professor Carpenter’s recent publications include The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Regulations, Networks and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928; “Groups, the Media and Agency Waiting Costs: The Political Economy of FDA Drug Approval” in American Journal of Political Science (July 2002); and “Protection without Capture: Product Approval by a Politically Responsive, Learning Regulator” in American Political Science Review (November 2004).  Daniel Ernst Daniel Ernst, Georgetown University, Law Center Fellow: Jefferson Decker, Columbia University Daniel Ernst, Georgetown University Professor of Law, specializes in American legal history. He co-edited Total War and the Law: The American Home Front in World War II as well as the American Society for Legal History’s book series, “Studies in Legal History.” A few of his other publications include Lawyers Against Labor, “Dicey's Disciple on the D.C. Circuit: Judge Harold Stephens and Administrative Reform, 1933-1940” in Georgetown Law Journal (March 2002); “State, Party, and Harold M. Stephens: The Utahn Origins of an Anti-New Dealer” in Western Legal History (Summer/Fall 2001); and “Willard Hurst and the Administrative State: From Williams to Wisconsin” in Law and History Review (Spring 2000).  Tony Judt Tony Judt, New York University Tony Judt is New York University’s Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies and Director of the Remarque Institute. His research interests include nineteenth and twentieth-century French social history as well as French and European intellectual and political history since World War II. He is currently working on a history of Europe since 1945 and has written many books, including The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron and the French Twentieth Century; Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals 1944-1956; Marxism and the French Left: Essays on Labour and Politics in France, 1830-1981; and Socialism in Provence, 1871-1914: A Study in the Origins of the Modern French Left.  Cathie Jo Martin Cathie Jo Martin, Boston University Cathie Jo Martin, Boston University Professor of Political Science, focuses on the politics of corporate tax policy, health reform, welfare state development, and business-government relationships. She is currently examining employer participation in welfare state development in Europe. Her recent publications include Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy; Aktivering af arbejdsgiverne: Arbejdsmarkedets svage i Danmark og Storbritannien (Activating Employers); “Sectional Parties, Divided Interests” in American Political Development (October 2006); and “Corporatism from the Firm Perspective” in British Journal of Political Science (January 2005).  Robert McMahon Robert McMahon, Ohio State University Robert McMahon is Ohio State University’s Ralph D. Mershon Distinguished Professor. He specializes in U.S. foreign relations and has written several books, including The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction; The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia since World War II; The Cold War on the Periphery: the United States, India, and Pakistan; and Colonialism and the Cold War: The United States and the Struggle for Indonesian Independence. He also edited Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War: Documents and Essays, which was part of the “Major Problems in American History Series.”  Sidney Milkis Sidney Milkis, University of Virginia Sidney Milkis is the University of Virginia’s White Burkett Miller Professor in the Politics Department and the Assistant Director of Academic Programs at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. His research focuses on the American presidency, political parties and elections, and American political history. A few of his recent publications include American Government: Balancing Rights and Democracy (co-authored with Marc Landy), The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2002 (co-authored with Michael Nelson), and “The Presidency and the Political Parties” in The Presidency and the Political System (2005). He has also co-edited many publications with Jerome Mileur, including The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism, The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism, and Progressivism and the New Democracy. |