The Miller Center of Public Affairs' Governing America in a Global Era (GAGE) Program sponsors conferences, panels and the Colloquia Series on Politics and History to engage the academic community in contemporary political history. GAGE brings in a broad range of distinguished speakers to present their research, receive feedback, discuss contemporary domestic and foreign political history, and contribute to the growing literature on American Political Development.
The GAGE Colloquia Series provides an open forum for scholars to share their works-in-progress and exchange ideas about politics, history and current affairs. Each speaker's paper will be posted online one week prior to his or her scheduled colloquium. Lunch will be served starting at 12:30 pm, and paper presentation and discussion will run from 12:45 pm to 2:15 pm. All colloquia are free and open to the general public.
Our events are held in the Forum Room at the Miller Center, located at 2201 Old Ivy Road. For directions to the Center, see our map. Parking is available on the premises at no charge. Please RSVP by calling 434.243.8726, or email if you plan to attend a GAGE event.
STEPHEN SKOWRONEK, Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University, got his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and held the Chair in American Civilization at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His research focuses on American national institutions and American political history.
Former Miller Center Fellow SHANE HAMILTON is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Georgia. His first book, Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy, was published in 2008 by Princeton University Press and received the 2009 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Prize from the Agricultural History Society. He is currently working on a book project entitled "Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the American Century." The History News Network selected him as a "Top Young Historian" in 2008.
JOEL OLSON is Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Olson teaches courses on the history of political thought, American political thought, critical race theory, and extremism. He is the author of The Abolition of White Democracy (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) and several articles on the relationship between race and democracy in the United States. He is currently writing a book, American Zealot, that examines the role of fanaticism in the American political tradition.
Former Miller Center Fellow NICOLE KAZEE has a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of American politics and policymaking. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University. She has also received fellowships from PEO International, Demos and the Brookings Institution. Her dissertation,"Wal-Mart Welfare: Business, Fiscal Regime, and the Politics of State Health Policymaking" highlighted the importance of institutional rules, fiscal norms, and the political role of employers.
EDDIE GLAUDE, Jr. is the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African-American Studies at Princeton University. His first book, Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early 19th Century Black America (University of Chicago Press, 2000), won the Modern Language Association's William Sanders Scarborough Book Prize. He is also the editor of Is it Nation Time?: Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism (University of Chicago Press, 2002) and, with Cornel West, of African American Religious Studies: An Anthology (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2003).
SONAL PANDYA, Assistant Professor in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at U.Va., received a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 2007 and was a Fellow at Princeton's Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance in 2007-2008. Her research interests include international political economy and economic development, and the regulation of foreign investment and trade. Her dissertation, "Trading Spaces: The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment Restrictions" was awarded the Mancur Olson Award for the best dissertation in Political Economy by the APSA's Organized Section on Political Economy.
