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 434.924.4694, or email if you plan to attend a GAGE event.
Jerry Cohen will deliver the GAGE Colloquium talk on October 9 at 12:30 PM in the Miller Center Rosemary and John Galbraith Forum Room. Benjamin J. Cohen is Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has been a member of the Political Science Department since 1991. He was educated at Columbia University, earning a PhD in Economics in 1963. He has worked as a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1962-1964) and has taught at Princeton University (1964-1971) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (1971-1991). A specialist in the political economy of international money and finance, he serves on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals and is the author of twelve…
Adam Rome, associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, will deliver the GAGE Colloquium talk on October 23, 2009 in the Miller Center Rosemary and John Galbraith Forum Room. He is the author of The Bulldozer in The Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Cambridge, 2001), which won the Organization of American Historians’ Frederick Jackson Turner Award, given to the best first book on any topic in American history. He now is finishing a book about the first Earth Day to be published by Hill and Wang.
In addition to writing about the modern environmental movement, Professor Rome has written about environmental reform in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. He served for four years as editor of the journal Environmental History. He teaches courses in environmental history and twentieth-century U.S. history.
Marie Gottschalk, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, will deliver the GAGE Colloquium talk for November 6 at 12:30 in the Miller Center Rosemary and John Galbraith Forum Room. Professor Gottschalk’s research interests cover The Welfare State, U.S. Political Economy, Health Policy, Business, Organized Labor, and Comparative Public Policy and The Media. Several recent selected publications are, The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business and the Politics of Health Care in the United States (Cornell University Press, 2000); "Labor and the Politics of Health-Care Inequality," in Lawrence Brown, Lawrence Jacobs, and James Morone, eds.; Wealthy,Healthy and Fair: The Politics of Health Care for a Good Society (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001); and "It's the Health-Care Costs, Stupid!: Ideas, Institutions, and the Politics of Organized Labor and Health Policy in the United States." Studies in American Political Development, Fall 2000.
Stephen Skowronek, Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University, will deliver the GAGE Colloquium talk at 12:30 on November 13, 2009 in the Miller Center Rosemary and John Galbraith Forum Room. Professor Skowronek got his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and has held the Chair in American Civilization at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His research concerns American national institutions and American political history. His publications include Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920 (1982), The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton, (1997), The Search for American Political Development (2004, with Karen Orren), and Presidential Leadership in Political Time: Reprise and Reappraisal (2008). Among other activities, he was co-founder of the journal Studies in American Political Development, which he edited between 1986 and 2007, and he provided the episode structure and thematic content for the PBS miniseries: The American President (Kunhardt Productions).
Shane Hamilton will give the GAGE Colloquium talk at 12:30 PM on November 20 in the Miller Center Rosemary and John Galbraith Forum Room. 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 in 2008 as a "Top Young Historian."
Joel Olson will deliver the GAGE Colloquium talk on December 4, 2009 at 12:30 PM in the Rosemary and John Galbraith Forum Room. He 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.
Nicole Kazee will deliver the GAGE Colloquium talk on February 26 at 12:30 PM in the Miller Center Rosemary and John Galbraith Forum Room. Kazee has a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor in Political Science and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She received her PhD in Political Science from Yale University and was a 2007-2008 Miller Center Fellow. She has also received funding from Demos and the Brookings Institution. Her dissertation,"Wal-Mart Welfare: Business, Fiscal Regime, and the Politics of State Health Policymaking" examines American politics and policymaking, with a focus on social policy (particularly health care).
Sonal Pandya, Assistant Professor in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, will deliver the GAGE Colloquium talk for April 30, 2010 at 12:30 in the Rosemary and John Galbraith Forum Room.
