Andy Achenbaum

Mentor: Andy Achenbaum, University of Houston

Fellow: Katie Otis (2006), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Everything Old is New Again: What Policymakers and Baby Boomers Can Learn from the History of Aging and Retirement

Andy Achenbaum, University of Houston Professor of History and Social Work, focuses on the history of aging. He has written five books: Older Americans: Vital Communities – Toward a Bold Vision of Societal Aging; Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science; Social Security: Visions and Revisions; Shades of Gray: Old Age, American Values and Federal Policies; and Old Age in the New Land: The American Experience Since 1790. He has also co-authored a number of books, including Profiles in Gerontology: A Biographical Dictionary (with Daniel M. Albert) and Changing Perceptions of Aging and the Aged (with Dena Shenk).

Richard N. Andrews

Mentor: Richard N. Andrews, University of North Carolina

Fellow: Josh Ashenmiller (2002), University of California, Santa Barbara,
Environmental Impact Assessment in the Era of Limits

Richard N. Andrews is the Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research interests include environmental policy institutions and instruments, environmental policy analysis, and United States and comparative environmental policy. He has written many books, articles, and public policy reports, including Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves: A History of American Environmental Policy; "Politics, Economics, and Perceptions" in Conservation Biology (December 2001); and "The Environment in Business Decision Making" in Decision Making for the Environment: Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities.

Kwame Appiah

Mentor: Kwame Appiah, Princeton University

Fellow: Christopher Lebron (2007), Wilson Carey McWilliams Fellow; Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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).

Mark Beissinger

Mentor: Mark R. Beissinger, Princeton University

Fellow: Jesse Driscoll, Stanford University
Exiting Anarchy: Militia Politics and the Post-Soviet Peace

Mark Beissinger is Professor of Politics at Princeton. His main fields of interest are nationalism, state-building, imperialism, and social movements, with special reference to the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet states. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, he is author or editor of four books, including Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He was the founding Director of Wisconsin's Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (1992–98), and was Chair of Wisconsin's Political Science Department (2001–04). He currently serves as Past President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and as Vice President of the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. His research has been supported by the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Wissenshaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Science Foundation, the United States Institute for Peace, and the Ford, Rockefeller, and Olin Foundations. He is working on a book tentatively entitled Imperial Reputation: The Politics of Empire in a World of Nation-States.

Michael Bernstein

Mentor: Michael Bernstein Tulane University

Fellow: Derek S. Hoff (2003), University of Virginia
Are We Too Many? The Political Economy of Population in the Twentieth-Century United States

Michael Bernstein is Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of Tulane University. His current research interests include United States political-economic history and the military-industrial complex. He has published many books, articles, and essays, among which are A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth Century America; "The American Economic Policy Environment of the 1990s: Origins, Consequences, and Legacies" in The Global Economy in the 1990s; and "The Pitfalls of Mainstream Economic Reasoning (and Teaching)" in A Guide to What's Wrong With Economics.

Martha Biondi

Mentor: Martha Biondi, Northwestern University

Fellow: Heather Lewis (2005), New York University
Scaling Down: Half a Century of Community Control in New York City's Schools, 1945–95

Martha Biondi is Associate Professor of African-American Studies and History at Northwestern University. Her current research project is titled "The Black Student Movement and the Origins of African American Studies." She has written To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City, for which she received the Thomas J. Wilson Prize in 2003. Other recent publications include "Student Protest, 'Law and Order' and the Origins of African American Studies in California" (forthcoming) and "The Rise of the Reparations Movement" in Radical History Review (Fall 2003).

Lawrence Brown

Mentor: Lawrence Brown, Columbia University

Fellow: Nicole Kazee (2007), Yale 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).

W. Elliott Brownlee

Mentor: W. Elliott Brownlee, University of California, Santa Barbara

Fellow: Ajay Mehrotra (2001), University of Chicago
Creating the Modern American Fiscal State: The Political Economy of U.S. Tax Policy, 1880–1930

W. Elliot Brownlee is Professor Emeritus of American Economic History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His current research interests include the financing of World War I, taxing and spending during the Reagan Presidency, and comparative fiscal history of Japan and the United States since World War I. Among his recent publications are Federal Taxation in America: A Short History; The Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic Conservatism and its Legacies (co-edited with Hugh Davis Graham); and "Taxation in the U.S. during World War I: Alternatives and Legacies" in Taxation, State, and Civil Society in Germany and the United States from the 18th to the 20th Century (forthcoming).

Tom Burke

Mentor: Tom Burke, Wellesley College

Fellow: Emily Zackin, Princeton University
Positive Rights in the Constitutions of the United States

Tom Burke is the Jane Bishop '51 Associate Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard and at the University of California–Berkeley, and a research fellow at the Brookings Institution and with the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Program.

His research focuses on the place of rights and litigation in public policy. His most recent project examines how organizations respond to social change laws. The first article from this project, "The Diffusion of Rights," with co-author Jeb Barnes, was published in the fall, 2006 issue of Law and Society Review. Another article, "Political Regimes and the Future of the First Amendment," is forthcoming in Studies in Law, Politics and Society.

Burke has written about the Americans with Disabilities Act, disability politics in the European Union, American campaign finance law, and the role of rights in American politics. He is the co-author, with Lief Carter, of the updated 7th edition of Reason in Law (2007), and the author of Lawyers, Lawsuits and Legal Rights: The Struggle Over Litigation in American Society (2002).

Daniel Byman

Mentor: Daniel Byman, Georgetown University

Fellow: Walter Ladwig, University of Oxford
Assisting Counterinsurgents: U.S. Security Assistance and Internal War, 1946–1991

Daniel Byman is associate professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and director of Georgetown's Security Studies Program and Center for Peace and Security Studies. He is an expert on issues surrounding global terrorism including terrorism in the Middle East, the U.S. War on Terror, intelligence and fighting the War on Terror, the practice of suicide bombing, terrorist groups including al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and HAMAS, Osama bin Laden, state sponsored terrorism, counterterrorism tactics, strategies for dealing with terrorists who take hostages, the relationship between Syria and Lebanon, the spread of democracy in the Middle East, Iran and development of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, the War in Iraq, Iraqi insurgency, the practice of renditions, U.S. national security, international security, ethnic conflict, and the use of military force around the globe and its impact on international relations.

Daniel Carpenter

Mentor: Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University

Fellow: Joanna Grisinger (2002), University of Chicago,
Reforming the State: Reorganization and the Federal Government, 1937–1964

Fellow: Dominique Tobbell (2007), University of Pennsylvania

Daniel Carpenter is Professor of Government and Director of the Center for American Political Studies 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 (winner of the 2002 Gladys M. Kammerer Award) and "Protection without Capture: Product Approval by a Politically Responsive, Learning Regulator" in American Political Science Review (November 2004).

Elisabeth Clemens

Mentor: Elisabeth Clemens, University of Chicago

Fellow: Shamira Gelbman (2005), University of Virginia,
Coalitions of the Unwilling: Insurgency and Enfranchisement in the United States and South Africa

Elisabeth Clemens, University of Chicago Associate Professor of Sociology, analyzes the processes behind institutional change. She is currently researching the privatization of public education. She has written many books and articles, including The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890–1925; "The Typical Tools for the Job: Research Strategies in Institutional Analysis" (with Marc Schneiberg) in Sociological Theory (September 2006); and "Sociology as a Historical Science" in The American Sociologist (Summer 2006). She also co-edited Remaking Modernity: Politics and Processes in Historical Sociology with Julia Adams and Ann Shola Orloff.

David Colby

Mentors: David Colby, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Fellow: Joeseph Crepsino (2001), Stanford University
Strategic Accommodation: Civil Rights Opponents in Mississippi and Their Impact on American Racial Politics, 1953–1972

David Colby is the Robert Wood John Johnson Foundation's Vice President of Research and Evaluation. Before serving in a myriad of leadership roles at the foundation, he was the deputy director of two commissions: the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and the Physician Payment Review Commission. He is also a former coordinator of the Masters of Policy Sciences Program at University of Maryland, Baltimore County as well as a former assistant dean at Williams College. His political science research focused on civil rights and his policy interests include Medicaid and Medicare and media coverage of AIDS.

Alan Dawley

Mentor: Alan Dawley, The College of New Jersey

Fellow: Beverly Gage (2002), Columbia University,
The Wall Street Explosion: Terrorism, Anticommunism, and the Origins of the FBI

Alan Dawley is Professor of History at The College of New Jersey. He specializes in 19th- and 20th-century United States history. His books include Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution, 1914–1924; Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State; and Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn. He has also written articles such as "Enforced Consent: American Progressives in War and Revolution" in Acoma (Winter 2000) and "Race and Class" in Labor History (Fall 1994).

Lowell Dittmer

Mentor: Lowell Dittmer, University of California, Berkley

Fellow: George Xuezhi Guo (2001), University of Virginia
The Guanxi (Interpersonal Relations) of Chinese Communist Elite: Theory and Practice

Lowell Dittmer is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a scholar of contemporary China whose research interests include the impact of reform on Chinese Communist authority and the China-Taiwan-U.S. triangle's relationship to East Asian regional politics. Among his recent publications are the following: South Asia's Nuclear Crisis; China Under Modernization; China's Quest for National Identity (co-authored with Samuel Kim); and Sino-Soviet Modernization and Its International Implications.

Daniel Ernst

Mentor: Daniel Ernst, Georgetown University, Law Center

Fellow: Jefferson Decker (2007), 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).

John Esposito

Mentor: John Esposito, Georgetown University

Fellow: Kathryn Gardner, Notre Dame University
Politicizing Religion: A Comparative Look at the Origins and Development of Muslim Incorporation Policies in France, Great Britain, and the United States, 1945–2008

University Professor as well as Professor of Religion and International Affairs and of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, John L. Esposito is Founding Director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding: History and International Affairs in the Walsh School of Foreign Service. At the College of the Holy Cross, he was Loyola Professor of Middle East Studies, Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, and Director of the Center for International Studies. A consultant to the Department of State as well as corporations, universities, and the media worldwide, Esposito specializes in Islam, political Islam, and the impact of Islamic movements from North Africa to Southeast Asia. Esposito is a recipient of the American Academy of Religion's 2005 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion and of Pakistan's Quaid-i-Azzam Award for Outstanding Contributions in Islamic Studies. In 2003 he received the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Henry Farrell

Mentor: Henry Farrell, George Washington University

Fellow: David Karpf, University of Pennsylvania
Network-Enhanced Goods and Internet-Mediated Organizations: The Internet's Effects on Political Participation, Organization, and Mobilization

Henry Farrell earned a Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University in 2000. He also holds a B.A. and M.A. in Politics from University College Dublin. His publications include: "Constructing the International Foundations of E-Commerce: The EU-US Safe Harbor Agreement," in International Organization, 57,2 (2003); "Trust, Distrust, and Power," in Distrust, ed. Russell Hardin (Russell Sage Foundation, forthcoming); and "Trust and Political Economy: Comparing the Effects of Institutions on Inter-Firm Cooperation," in Comparative Political Studies (forthcoming). Farrell is a member of the American Political Science Association, the International Society for the New Institutional Economics, the International Studies Association, and the European Union Studies Association.

Louis Fisher

Mentor: Louis Fisher, Congressional Research Service, Government Division, Library of Congress

Fellow: Jasmine L. Farrier (2000), University of Texas at Austin,
Why Congress Delegates Decisions on the Budget: Institutional Origins and Consequences

Louis Fisher is a Senior Specialist in the Government and Finance Division of the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. He is an expert on the budgeting processes of the United States government. His books include Presidential War Power, Constitutional Conflicts Between Congress and the President, and Presidential Spending Power. He appeared before the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in 1994 to discuss "Public Disclosure of the Aggregate Intelligence Budget Figure." In 2004 he submitted a declaration for the case Steven Aftergood v. Central Intelligence Agency.

Dr. Alton Frye

Mentor: Dr. Alton Frye, Council on Foreign Relations

Fellow: Jamie Morin (2002), Yale University,
Dismantling Defense: The Programmatic Politics of Post-Cold War Defense Retrenchment

Alton Frye, Presidential Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Council on Foreign Relations, founded the Council's Washington program and its national program. During his tenure at the Council, he served as its president, senior vice president, and national director. Prior to investing more than 30 years in the Council, he served as a charter fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a strategic analyst for the RAND Corporation. He is the author of several works, including Humanitarian Intervention: Crafting a Workable Doctrine; A Responsible Congress: The Politics of National Security; and Congress Evolves: The Changing Politics of American Defense.

William Galston

Mentor: William Galston, University of Maryland

Fellow: Derek Webb (2006), University of Notre Dame
Paving the Rights Infrastructure: Civic Education in the Presidencies of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt

William Galston is the College Park Professor in University of Maryland's School of Public Policy. He is a political theorist with expertise in family policy, domestic policy, American politics, campaigns, elections, and education. He is the author of Public Matters: Essays on Politics, Policy and Religion; Liberal Pluralism: The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice; "Individual Experience and Social Policy: Thinking Practically about Overcoming Radical and Ethnic Prejudice" in NOMOS XLIII: Moral and Political Education; and "Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy" in Ethics (January 2002).

Gary Gerstle

Mentor: Gary Gerstle, Vanderbilt University

Fellows: Justin J. Wert (2004), University of Pennslyvania
The Not-So-Great Writ: Habeas Corpus & American Political Development

Carl Bon Tempo (2002), University of Virginia,
The Politics of American Refugee Policy, 1952–1980

Gary Gerstle is the James Stahlman Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He focuses on 20th century United States, examining how the United States changes its borders and national identity in order to welcome or exclude immigrants and other minorities. One of his current research projects is a comparative and transnational history of race and nation in the United States, Mexico, and Cuba. His books include Working Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914–1960 and American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century.

Hugh Davis Graham

Mentor: Hugh Davis Graham, Vanderbilt University

Fellow: Paul C. Milazzo (2000), University of Virginia,
Legislating the Solution to Pollution: Congress and the Development of Federal Water Pollution Control Policy in the United States, 1945–1975

Hugh Davis Graham was the Holland N. McTyeire Professor of American History and Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. He was an expert on civil rights and wrote Civil Rights and the Presidency: Race and Gender in American Politics, 1960–1972; Collision Course: The Strange Convergence of Affirmative Action and Immigration Policy in America; and The Rise of American Research Universities: Elites and Challengers in the Postwar Era. He also co-edited two books with W. Elliot Brownlee: Federal Taxation in America: A Short History and The Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic Conservatism and Its Legacies.

John Mark Hansen

Mentor: John Mark Hansen, University of Chicago

Fellow: Lorraine K. Gates (2000), University of Virginia,
The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Politics in the 1920s

John Mark Hansen is the University of Chicago's Dean of Social Sciences and the Charles L. Hutchinson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Political Science. His work has centered on interest groups, citizen activism, and public opinion. He has published two books entitled Mobilization, Participation, and Democracy in America (co-authored with Steven Rosenstone) and Gaining Access: Congress and the Farm Lobby, 1919–1981. He has also written articles such as "Individuals, Institutions, and Public Preferences over Public Finance" in American Political Science Review (September 1998), for which he received the journal's Heinz Eulau Award for the Best Article Published in 1998.

Ellen Herman

Mentor: Ellen Herman, University of Oregon

Fellow: Joy Rohde (2006), University of Pennsylvania
"The Social Scientists' War": Expertise in a Cold War Nation

Ellen Herman is University of Oregon's Associate Professor of 20th-Century American History. Her interests include human sciences, social engineering, and therapeutic culture. She published her first book in 1995, The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts. Currently, she is writing a book about 20th-century child adoption, which is entitled Kinship by Design. Among her recent publications are "Can Kinship Be Designed and Still Be Normal? The Curious Case of Child Adoption" in Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal: Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity and "Rules for Realness: Child Adoption in a Therapeutic Culture" in Therapeutic Culture: Triumph and Defeat.

Chris Howard

Mentor: Chris Howard, College of William and Mary

Fellow: Lori Fritz (2003), University of Virginia,
Weaving the Safety Net, Strand by Strand: State Healthcare Regimes

Chris Howard is the Pamela Harriman Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William and Mary. His research interests include American politics and public policy. He has written two books: The Welfare State Nobody Knows: Debunking Myths about U.S. Social Policy and The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States. In addition, he has written many articles which have appeared in The American Political Science Review, Journal of Policy History, Political Research Quarterly, Public Administration Review, and Studies in American Political Development.

Akira Iriye

Mentor: Akira Iriye, Harvard University

Fellow: Stephen Porter (2005), University of Chicago
Defining Public Responsibility in a Global Age: Refugee Resettlement in the U.S., 1933 to 1980

Akira Iriye, Harvard University Professor Emeritus of History, specialized in American diplomatic history and Japanese-American relations. He has written six books: From Nationalism to Internationalism: U.S. Foreign Policy to 1914; Cultural Internationalism and World Order; The Globalizing of America; China and Japan in the Global Setting; Fifty Years of Japanese-American Relations; Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1945; and Pacific Estrangement: Japanese and American Expansion, 1897–1911.

Meg Jacobs

Mentor: Meg Jacobs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fellow: Julia Ott (2005), Yale University
When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors' Democracy and the Emergence of the American Retail Investor, 1900–1930

Meg Jacobs is the Class of 1947 Career Development Associate Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She researches 20th-century American politics, public policy, and business history. She is the author of Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America and is the co-editor of The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History (with William J. Novak and Julian E. Zelizer). Her article, "Energy Crises Now and Then," in Spectrum (Winter 2007) won the 2007 Levitan Prize.

Richard R. John

Mentor: Richard R. John, University of Illinois, Chicago

Fellow: Michael Fein (2001), Brandeis University
Public Works: New York Road Building and the American State, 1880–1956

Richard R. John is Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His primary research interests are U.S. cultural and institutional history before 1940, American political development, and the history of business, technology, and communications. He is the author of Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse, for which he received the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians. In addition, he is the editor of Ruling Passions: Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America and has also written several articles, many of which have appeared in Journal of Policy History.

Tony Judt

Mentor: Tony Judt, New York University

Fellow: Michael Morgan (2007), Yale 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 19th and 20th-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.

Elizabeth Kier

Mentor: Elizabeth Kier, University of Washington

Fellow: Ronald Krebs (2001), Columbia University
A School for the Nation? Military Institutions and the Boundaries of Nationality

Elizabeth Kier is a University of Washington Associate Professor of Political Science. Her specialization is international relations, and she focuses particularly on international security and civil-military relations. She won the 1998 Edgar S. Furniss Award for her book, Imagining War: French and British Military Doctrine Between the Wars. Her recent articles include "Homosexuals in the U.S. Military: Open Integration and Combat Effectiveness" in International Security (Autumn 1998) and "Rights and Fights: Sexual Orientation and Military Effectiveness" in International Security (Summer 1999, coauthors: Tarak Barkawi, Christopher Dandeker, and Melissa Wells-Petry).

Michael Klarman

Mentor: Michael Klarman, University of Virginia

Fellow: Christopher Schmidt (2003), Harvard University,
Postwar Liberalism and the Origins of Brown v. Board of Education

Michael Klarman is University of Virginia's James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of History, and Elizebth D. and Richard A. Merill Research Professor. He specializes in criminal law, constitutional law, constitutional theory, and constitutional history. His book, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality, won the 2005 Bancroft Prize. He has also written several articles, including "How Great were the 'Great' Marshall Court Decisions?" in Virginia Law Review (October 2001) and "Bush v. Gore Through the Lens of Constitutional History" in California Law Review (Fall 2001).

Gary Laderman

Mentor: Gary Laderman, Emory University

Fellow: Stephanie Muravchik (2005), University of Virginia
New Creatures in Christ: American Faith in an Age of Psychology

Gary Laderman, Emory University Professor of American Religious History and Culture, studies religion and health. He is the author of two books: Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America and The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799–1883. In addition, he co-edited the three-volume Religion and American Cultures: An Encyclopedia of Traditions, Diversity, and Popular Expressions (with Luis León). He is currently working on another book, entitled Godless in America: Religious Anchors in Contemporary America.

Marc Landy

Mentor: Marc Landy, Boston College

Fellows: Caroline Lee (2005), University of California at San Diego
Compromising Natures: Moral Economies of Environmental Decision Making

Kathleen Grammatico Ferraiolo (2003), University of Virginia,
A Theory of Drug Control Policy in the Twentieth Century and the Success of Drug Law Reform in the 1990s

Marc Landy, Professor of Political Science and Faculty Chair of the Irish Institute at Boston College, specializes in American political development, the American presidency, and environmental politics and policy. He is the author of many publications, including American Politics: The Enduring Conflict and Presidential Greatness (both with Sidney Milkis); The Environmental Protection Agency from Nixon to Clinton: Asking the Wrong Questions (with Marc Roberts and Stephen Thomas); and "Local Government and Environmental Policy" in Dilemmas of Scale in American Federal Democracy.

Richard Lapchick

Mentor: Richard Lapchick, University of Central Florida

Fellow: Damion Thomas (2001), University of California, Los Angeles
"The Good Negroes": African-American Athletes and the Cultural Cold War, 1945–1968

Richard Lapchick is University of Central Florida's Director and Chair of the Sports Business Management Program. He is also President and CEO of the National Consortium for Academics and Sports. Before joining the faculty of University of Central Florida, he co-founded and directed the Center for the Study of Sport at Northeastern University for seventeen years, taught political science as an associate professor at Virginia Wesleyan College, and was Senior Liaison Officer at the United Nations. He has written 11 books, including Smashing Barriers; Fractured Focus: Sport as a Reflection of Society; On the Mark: Putting the Student Back in Student-Athlete; and Sport in Society: Equal Opportunity or Business as Usual?

Melvyn Leffler

Mentor: Melvyn Leffler, University of Virginia

Fellows: Ariel David Adesnik (2004), Oxford University
The Rebirth of American Democracy Promotion: Carter and Reagan in Central America

Jennifer See (2002), University of California,
Santa Barbara, American Cold War Policy in its Wider International and Domestic Context, 1945–47

Melvyn Leffler is University of Virginia's Edward R. Stettinius Professor of History. He is also a faculty associate of the Miller Center's Governing America in a Global Era (GAGE) program. His area of expertise is diplomatic history, and he has written several books on the topic, including For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War; The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917–1953; and The Elusive Quest: America's Pursuit of European Stability and French Security, 1919–1933. He won the 1993 Bancroft Prize for his book, A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War.

Jeffrey Legro

Mentor: Jeffrey Legro, University of Virginia

Fellow: Sarah Kreps (2006), Georgetown University

Jeffrey Legro is Chair of the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. In addition, he is the Compton Visiting Professor of World Politics at the Miller Center of Public Affairs and is a faculty associate of the Miller Center's Governing America in a Global Era (GAGE) program. He specializes in international relations and is the author of Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order and Cooperation Under Fire: Anglo-German Restraint During World War II. His articles have appeared in International Organization, International Security, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Survival, Parameters, and Foreign Policy.

Ronnie Lipschutz

Mentor: Ronnie Lipschutz, University of California, Santa Cruz

Fellow: Shelley L. Hurt (2003), New School University,
Institutionalizing Food Power: U.S. Foreign Policy, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Agricultural Biotechnology Industry, 1972–1994

Ronnie Lipschutz is Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He focuses on globalization's effect on politics. His recent publications include Regulation for the Rest of Us? Globalization, Governmentality, and Global Politics (with James K. Rowe); Global Politics Because People Matter (with Mary Ann Tétreault); "Global Civil Society and Global Governmentality: Or the Search for Politics and the State amidst the Capillaries of Power" in Power and Global Governance; and "Imitations of Empire" in Global Environmental Politics (May 2004).

Cathie Jo Martin

Mentor: Cathie Jo Martin, Boston University

Fellows: Gretchen Crosby Sims (2002), Stanford University,
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Political Power of American Business

Jesse Rhodes (2007), University of Virginia

Cathie Jo Martin, Professor of Politics at Boston University, specializes in American politics, political economy, and the relationship between business and politics. She has written three books: Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy; Shifting the Burden: the Struggle Over Growth and Corporate Taxation; and Aktivering af arbejdsgiverne: Arbejdsmarkedets svage i Danmark og Storbritannien (Activating Employers). In addition, her articles include "Sectional Parties, Divided Business" in Studies in American Political Development (Fall 2006) and "Corporatism from the Firm Perspective" in British Journal of Political Science (January 2005).

David Mayhew

Mentor: David Mayhew, Yale University

Fellow: Robert Saldin (2006), University of Virginia
War and Peace as Pivot Points in American Politics

David Mayhew is the Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He focuses on United States legislative behavior, political parties, and policymaking. Among his many publications are Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre; America's Congress: Actions in the Public Sphere, James Madison through Newt Gingrich; "Congress as Problem Solver" in Promoting the General Welfare: New Perspectives on Government Performance; "Lawmaking and History" in The Macropolitics of Congress; and "Actions in the Public Sphere" in Institutions of American Democracy: The Legislative Branch.

Robert McMahon

Mentor: Robert McMahon, Ohio State University

Fellow: Robert Rakove (2007), University of Virginia

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."

John McNeill

Mentor: John McNeill, Georgetown University

Fellow: Christopher Jones, University of Pennsylvania
Energy Highways: Canals, Pipes, and Wires Transform the Mid-Atlantic

John McNeill earned a B.A. from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. from Duke University. Since 1985 he has cheerfully served two masters, as a faculty member of the School of Foreign Service and History Department at Georgetown. From 2003 until 2006 he held the Cinco Hermanos Chair in Environmental and International Affairs, until his appointment as University Professor. He teaches world history, environmental history, and international history at Georgetown; and writes books, and directs Ph.D. students, mainly in environmental history.

Timothy Meagher

Mentor: Timothy Meagher, Catholic University of America

Fellow: Emily Brunner (2004), University of Chicago
Irish-American Nationalists and the Dilemmas of National Belonging

Timothy Meagher, Associate Professor of History and University Archivist at the Catholic University of America, specializes in American immigrant history, Irish-American history, and Catholic history. He is the author of three books: From Paddy to Studs: Irish-American Communities in the Turn of the Century Era, 1880 to 1920; Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class and Ethnic Identity in a New England City, 1880 to 1928; and A Guide to Irish American History. In addition, he edited The New York Irish with Ronald H. Bayor.

R. Shep Melnick

Mentor: R. Shep Melnick, Boston College

Fellow: Joshua Dunn (2000), University of Virginia,
Judges, Lawyers, and Experts: Law vs. Politics in Missouri vs. Jenkins

R. Shep Melnick is Boston College's Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Professor of American Politics. He researches the judiciary and legislative branches, examining their roles in American government and public policy. His two books are entitled Regulation and the Courts: The Case of the Clean Air Act and Between the Lines: Interpreting Welfare Rights. He has also written many articles and book chapters, including "Courts and Agencies" in Making Policy, Making Law: An Interbranch Perspective and "From Tax-and-Spend to Mandate-and-Sue: Liberalism After the Great Society" in The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism.

Suzanne Mettler

Mentor: Suzanne Mettler, Syracuse University

Fellow: Susan Schantz (2000), Brandeis University,
Work, Citizenship, and Welfare: The Institutionalization of the Work Ethic in Work Relief Policies from the New Deal to the Present

Suzanne Mettler is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University. She specializes in American political development, public policy, and political behavior. Her first book, Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy won the American Political Science Association's Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book on U.S. national policy published in 1998. Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation, her second book, also garnered awards: it was the co-winner of the 2006 Gladys M. Kammerer Award and the co-winner of the American Political Association's Greenstone Prize of the Politics and History Section.

Sidney Milkis

Mentor: Sidney Milkis, University of Virginia

Fellows: Daniel Galvin (2005), Yale University,
Presidential Party Building in the United States

Saladin Ambar (2007), Rutgers University

Sidney Milkis is the White Burkett Miller Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is also Assistant Director of Academic Programs at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. His research interests include American political development, the presidency, elections, and 20th-century political reform. He has written several publications, including The President and the Parties: The Transformation of the American Party System Since the New Deal; Political Parties and Constitutional Government: Remaking American Democracy; Presidential Greatness (co-authored with Marc Landy); and The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism (co-authored with Jerome Mileur).

Timothy Naftali

Mentor: Timothy Naftali, Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

Fellow: Sean Malloy (2001), University of California, Berkeley
Henry L. Stimson and the American Foreign Policy Tradition

Timothy Naftali is Director of the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. He was formerly Director of the Miller Center's Presidential Recordings Program and Associate Professor of History. His publications include Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary (with Aleksandr Fursenko); Blindspot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism; U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis; The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy, Volumes 1 & 2; and One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958–1964.

Alice O'Connor

Mentor: Alice O'Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara

Fellow: Andrew Morris (2001), University of Virginia
Charity, Therapy, and Poverty: Private Social Service in the Era of Public Welfare

Alice O'Connor is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She specializes in modern U.S. history and public policy. Among her many books and articles are Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History; "Poverty Research and Policy for the Post-Welfare Era" in Annual Review of Sociology (August 2000), and "The Ford Foundation and Philanthropic Activism in the 1960s" in Philanthropic Foundations: New Scholarship, New Possibilities. She is also a co-editor of Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities (with Chris Tilly and Lawrence D. Bobo).

Carmen Hooker Odom

Mentor: Carmen Hooker Odom, Milbank Memorial Fund

Fellow: Maxine Eichner (2001), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Reinstating Family: Rethinking the Relationship Between the Family and the State

Carmen Hooker Odom is President of the Milbank Memorial Fund, a foundation which conducts health policy research and publishes the Milbank Quarterly. Prior to this position, she was North Carolina's Secretary of Health and Human Services and Adjunct Professor of Health Policy and Administration at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill's School of Public Health. She is a former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and was the primary author of the 1991 Massachusetts comprehensive health reform legislation and the Children's Medical Security Plan.

Charles Palmer

Mentor: Charles Palmer, Institute for Social and Economic Development Ventures

Fellow: Andrew Morris (2001), University of Virginia
Charity, Therapy, and Poverty: Private Social Service in the Era of Public Welfare

Charles Palmer is the President of the Institute for Social and Economic Development (ISED) Ventures, a subsidiary of ISED that assists impoverished Americans by providing services such as financial literacy training and credit counseling. He is the former Director of the Iowa Department of Human Services and the former Director of Planning and Allocation for the United Way of Greater Des Moines, Iowa. In addition, he is a consultant with the Annie Casey Foundation and the Millbank Foundation. Palmer has a Masters of Arts in Social Services Administration from the University of Chicago.

Charles Payne

Mentor: Charles Payne, Duke University

Fellow: Joeseph Crepsino (2001), Stanford University
Strategic Accommodation: Civil Rights Opponents in Mississippi and Their Impact on American Racial Politics, 1953–1972

Charles Payne is the Director of African and African-American Studies and the Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of History, African-American Studies, and Sociology at Duke University. He specializes in urban education and educational policy, the Civil Rights Movement, social change, and social inequality. His publications include So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools; Teach Freedom: The African American Tradition of Education for Liberation (co-edited with Carol Strickland), and Time Longer Than Rope: A Century of African American Activism (co-edited with Adam Green).

Julie Reuben

Mentor: Julie Reuben, Harvard University

Fellow: Chris Loss (2004), University of Virginia
From Democracy to Diversity: The Transformation of American Higher Education from World War I through the Cold War

Julie Reuben, Harvard University Professor of Education, researches the purposes of education as well as educational change and the relationship between educational institutions and sociopolitical concerns. Her current research project is a book tentatively titled Campus Revolts: Politics and the American University in the 1960s, in which she will explore the impact of student protests on higher education. She is the author of Making the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality, which won the 1997 Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award.

Peter Reuter

Mentor: Peter Reuter, University of Maryland

Fellow: Beth Freeborn (2002), University of Virginia,
Drug Laws and the Market for Cocaine

Peter Reuter is Professor of Public Policy with a joint appointment in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. He is also the director of the University's Program on the Economics of Crime and Justice Policy and the founder of the RAND Corporation's Drug Policy Research Center. His specialization is policy regarding illicit drugs and organized crime, topics about which he has written extensively. A few of his recent publications include Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Places, Times, and Vices (co-authored with Robert MacCoun) and Chasing Dirty Money: The Fight Against Money Laundering (co-authored with Edwin Truman).

Emily Rosenberg

Mentor: Emily Rosenberg, Macalester College

Fellow: Seth Center (2006), University of Virginia,
Spreading the American Dream?: Power, Image, and U.S. Diplomacy, 1968–1976

Emily Rosenberg is the DeWitt Wallace Professor of History at Macalester College. Her specialization is U.S. foreign relations, specifically U.S. economic and cultural expansion. She is the author of many publications, including The Day Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory; Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930, winner of the Ferrell Book Award; "Ordering Others: U.S. Financial Advisers in the Early Twentieth Century" in Haunted by Empire; and "Present and Past: September 11 and Pearl Harbor" in Chronicle of Higher Education (December 4, 2003).

Edmund Russell

Mentor: Edmund Russell, University of Virginia

Fellows: Shane Hamilton (2004), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Trucking Country: Food Politics and the Transformation of Rural Life in Postwar America

Sarah T. Phillips (2000), Boston University,
Acres Fit and Unfit: Environmental Liberalism and the American State, 1925–1955

Edmund Russell is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences with a joint appointment in the History Department. His research interests are the history of science, technology, society, and the environment. He is the author of several works, including War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring (winner of the Edelstein Prize) and "Evolutionary History: Prospectus for a New Field," Environmental History (April 2003), which won the publication's annual Leopold-Hidy Prize.