GAGE News

• 2007 Miller Center Fellow Nicole Kazee, with Michael Lipsky and Cathie Jo Martin, has written Outside the Big Box, a piece published in the July/August 2008 Boston Review. Their article argues that small business isn't well represented politically, particularly on the issue of health care.


• "Backstory" with the American History Guys was featured in C-Ville Weekly's July 15-21 issue


• To Lead the World: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine (Oxford University Press, 2008) has been released. Edited by Mel Leffler and Jeff Legro, the book features essays from eleven of the nation's most prominent intellectuals, who offer concrete, historically grounded suggestions for how America can regain its standing in the world and use its power more wisely than it has during the Bush years. The volume is a product of the conference, After The Bush Doctrine: National Security Strategy For A New Administration, which took place at the Miller Center June 7-8, 2007.


• Brian Balogh commented on President Bush's legacy and his visit to Monticello in the Daily Progress on July 3.


• Sid Milkis weighed in on the lessons Obama can learn from the Clinton administration in The Huffington Post on July 2.


• The History News Network published The Perils of Polling, a piece written by Benjamin Ginsberg, the David H. Bernstein Professor of Political Science at The Johns Hopkins University. Ginsberg participated in GAGE's Has Polling Killed Democracy? conference on April 25. More information.


• Sid Milkis was one of several historians who assessed McCain's chances in the Politico June 15.


• Brian Balogh discussed the historic precedent of Obama's candidacy in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette June 6.


• The Legal History Blog discusses the conservative legal movement and GAGE's 2008 Spring Fellowship conference, where Fellow Jefferson Decker, whom blogger Dan Ernst mentored, presented his work.


• Backstory, a weekly call-in radio show featuring Brian Balogh, Peter Onuf, and Edward Ayers, debuted on Virginia public radio stations June 1. The show is highlighted in the Summer 2008 issue of UVA Magazine, on UVA Today, and on Newswise, History News Network, AOL, and the Roanoke Times. It is also available on iTunes.


• Public Service Fellow Xiao Wang has won the pretigious Truman Scholarship, and was featured in the Summer 2008 issue of UVA Magazine.


• The San Francisco Chronicle published an op-ed, Now diplomacy is appeasement?, by Miller Center Fellow Robert Rakove on May 22.


• Brian Balogh has won the prestigious Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award for service and dedication to his students and the U.Va. community.


• Brian Balogh weighed in on the relevance of presidential candidates' health records in U.S. News & World Report May 9.


• The State in Columbia, S.C. published an op-ed, Tax can help workers, employers, by Miller Center Fellow Nicole Kazee on May 7.


• The web site for GAGE's Has Polling Killed Democracy? panel has been featured on Intute, an online service linking to the very best Web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists. It is sponsored by a consortium of UK universities and partners.


• The New York Times Magazine published a piece, Our First Black President?, by 2002 Fellow Beverly Gage on April 6.


• GAGE Co-Chair Mel Leffler's book For the Soul of Mankind has been shortlisted for the Council on Foreign Affairs 2008 Arthur Ross Book Award. Winners will be announced in May.


• GAGE Co-Chair Mel Leffler's op-ed Keep Your Enemies Closer appeared in the Los Angeles Times on April 6.


• U.Va. Today highlighted digital learning and the University's Digital Media 'Groups Lab' on March 27


• Mark Nevin, Ph.D. candidate in U.Va.'s Corcoran Department of History, published Those "Undemocratic" Party Conventions Were More Democratic Than You Think, an op-ed on polling and presidential selection on the History News Network web site.


• Public Service Fellow Xiao Wang has been awarded the 2008 Truman Scholarship, which is given by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. The award goes to college juniors who exhibit exceptional leadership potential and who are committed to careers in government, the nonprofit or advocacy sectors, education or elsewhere in public service. Read more.


• "Backstory ... With the American History Guys," a radio show featuring Brian Balogh, Prof. Peter Onuf, and University of Richmond President Edward Ayers, will debut on public radio stations in May, intending to go national by fall, the Charlottesville Daily Progress and Cavalier Dailyreport.


• The New York Times' Freakonomics blog looked at the working paper by Barry Eichengreen and Doug Irwin, "International Economic Policy: Was there a Bush Doctrine?" created for the 2007 After the Bush Doctrine conference. The paper was published through the National Bureau of Economic Research.


• Public Service Fellow Katherine Klem discussed the youth vote and her support for Sen. Barack Obama in the Virginia Primary on MSNBC's "Hardball" on Feb. 11.


• 2002 Fellow Beverly Gage was a guest on PBS's NewsHour on Feb. 5, discussing the history of Super Tuesday with fellow historians Michael Beschloss and Richard Norton Smith. (MP3, RealAudio)


• U.Va.'s Arts & Sciences magazine looks at Mel Leffler's For the Soul of Mankind -- including a National Review Online interview with the author.


• C-Ville Weekly highlighted the research and new book on race in politics by Vesla Weaver.


• The Washington Post reviewed Mel Leffler's For the Soul of All Mankind on Jan. 6.


• 2002 Fellow Beverly Gage was a guest on PBS's NewsHour on Jan. 3 and 4, discussing the Iowa Caucuses (transcript | MP3 | RealAudio) and the New Hampshire Primary (MP3, RealAudio), and is taking questions in the Insider Forum.


• The December 2007 American Historical Review features a great review of The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s, by 2000 Lorraine Gates Schuyler.


• GAGE Co-Director and Associate Professor of History Brian Balogh was interviewed for The Economist's Democracy in America podcast for the Democracy in America podcast on Dec. 13. In the interview, Professor Balogh discussed how voters respond to the life story of today's presidential candidates.


• "Frontlash: Race and the Development of Punitive Crime Policy" Studies in American Political Development, 21 (Fall 2007), 230-265 by Vesla M. Weaver


• 2004 Miller Center Fellow Nicole Kazee published an op-ed, "To win SCHIP battle, enlist employers," in the Baltimore Sun Nov. 9.


• 2004 Miller Center Fellow Jon Shields has published a new piece, "In Praise of the Values Voter," in the Autumn 2007 Wilson Quarterly.


• Congratulations to 2006 Fellow Joy Rohde, who has been named a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.


• Jonathan Zimmerman of New York University, an adviser to Miller Center Fellows on op-ed pieces and a former Fellow mentor, was named Top Young Historian on the History News Network. Zimmerman is Director of the history of education program, Professor of Education and History at the Steinhardt School of Education, and Professor of history in NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.


• GAGE scholar Vesla Weaver was featured on UVA Today on September 10, and in the Cavalier Daily, U.Va.'s student newspaper, on September 13.


• September's Perspectives on Politics features "George W. Bush, the Republican Party, and the 'New' American Party System" by GAGE's Sidney Milkis and Jesse Rhodes, and "What China Will Want: The Future Intentions of a Rising Power" (PDF) by GAGE's Jeff Legro.


• The Economist and the Christian Science Monitor have reviewed the new book by GAGE co-Chair Mel Leffler, For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War, published in September 2007 by Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Leffler's Miller Center Forum on the book was September 28.


• Edmund P. Russell, who has mentored two Miller Center Fellows, is interviewed by the Daily Progress about his research on dog fighting.


• Former Treasury Secretary John W. Snow joins the Miller Center this fall (PDF) as the Newman Visiting Fellow, working with GAGE and advising on issues of international and fiscal governance.


• Gareth Davies, Oxford University historian and former Miller Center Visiting Scholar has published a new book on American education policy entitled, See Government Grow: Education Politics from Johnson to Reagan (Kansas University Press, September 2007).


• David Adesnik, a 2004 Miller Center Fellow, has published the following article, "Ignoring Nigeria: The election that wasn't and other disturbing portents" in the Weekly Standard.


• Caroline Lee, a 2005 Miller Center Fellow, has published "Is There a Place for Private Conversation in Public Dialogue? Comparing Stakeholder Assessments of Informal Communication in Collaborative Regional Planning" in the American Journal of Sociology.


• Conference: After the Bush Doctrine: National Security Strategy for a New Administration, June 7-8, 2007. GAGE invited eleven of the nation's most prominent intellectuals to think boldly and imaginatively about America's future role in the world, and how the Bush Doctrine's strategy of preemption, unilateralism, and assertive democratization is suited to U.S. foreign policy going forward. Full schedule.
  
  The New York Times' David Brooks examined the divergent opinions of G. John Ikenberry and Robert Kagan in his June 19 column, "A New Global Blueprint" (subscription required).
  
  Fareed Zakaria assessed the foreign policy landscape for the next administration in a piece in the June 11 Newsweek, "Beyond Bush: What the world needs is an open, confident America."
  
  Oxford University Press will publish a volume of the conference participants' essays in 2008, edited by Professors Mel Leffler and Jeff Legro.


• Shields on Falwell's legacy: Jon Shields, a 2004 Miller Center Fellow, has published "The Myth of the Falwell Insurgency" at First Things: The Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life.


• Milkis and Rhodes on Bush and the Party System: Publius: The Journal of Federalism has published an article by GAGE Co-Chair Sid Milkis: "George W. Bush, the Party System, and American Federalism" in their Spring 2007 issue. Milkis is the Miller Center's Assistant Director for Academic Programs. Jesse Rhodes is a Miller Center Fellow.


• Ciepley's book nominated for Pulitzer: Congratulations to U.Va. postdoctoral fellow David Ciepley, whose book, Liberalism in the Shadow of Totalitarianism has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Watch Ciepley's Miller Center colloquium on the topic in our archives.


• Miller Center Fellowship Conference, May 10-11, 2007. GAGE's annual Fellowship Conference in American Politics, Foreign Policy and World Politics showcased the best work in politics, understood from an historical perspective. Eight Miller Center fellows and their "dream" mentors participated in four plenary sessions: The Tools of Diplomacy; Reshaping the Political System in War and Peace; Social Science and National Security; and New Forms of Activism. The conference also included a manuscript review of GAGE Co-Director Mel Leffler's forthcoming book on the underlying dynamics of the Cold War, tentatively titled For the Soul of Mankind: The U.S., the Soviet Union, and the Cold War. Political analyst Kevin Phillips, author of American Theocracy, gave a special Forum on May 10 at 11 AM.


• Former Fellow Joseph Crespino, and recent Forum speaker, Matthew Lassiter, are highlighted in a recent New York Times article "Interpreting Some Overlooked Stories From the South."


• Indiana University Professor Nick Cullather's "The Foreign Policy of the Calorie" is the lead article in the April American Historical Review. Watch Professor Cullather's Miller Center colloquium on the topic in our archives.


• The Public Service Fellows Film Series hosted Cold Mountain with Professor Gary Gallagher on Wednesday, March 21 at the Robertson Media Center. More information.


• Professor Jeff Legro, co-chair of GAGE's America in the World Program, recently had his book Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order published in paperback.


• Former Miller Center Fellow Shelley Hurt has won the 2007 Carl Beck Award at the International Studies Association for her paper, "Patent Law, Biodefense, and the National Security State."


• Former Miller Center Fellow Christopher Loss was awarded the Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Humanities & Social Sciences by the University of Virginia. This award recognizes excellence in original scholarship by Ph.D. students at the University.


• Miller Center Fellow Larycia Hawkins's op-ed "A challenge to Obama: Jump ship!" was published in the Chicago Tribune on February 5, 2007.


• Former Miller Center Fellow Patrick McGuinn's book No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy has been named an "Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice Magazine.


• Miller Center fellow Rob Saldin's op-ed, "Democrats are Still an Endangered Species in the West," was syndicated by Writers on the Range, High Country News' opinion column service, and ran in numerous Mountain West newspapers (under different titles) from December 12-16, 2006.


• Professor Sidney Milkis, co-chair of the Miller Center's GAGE Program, recently published "Reflections on a Polarized America: Partisan Rancor and Development in the U.S." in Clio, a newsletter of politics and history. He also published "George W. Bush and the 'New' American Party System" in Clio.