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.
Thursday, February 25, 2010 4:00 PM
C. Christine Fair, John Echeverri-Gent, Jeffrey Legro, Hassan Abbas
The 2010 Ambassador William C. Battle Symposium on American Diplomacy
This special panel will feature HASSAN ABBAS, Quaid-i-Azam Chair Professor at Columbia University and former Pakistani government official, and C. CHRISTINE FAIR, Assistant Professor at Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies. Moderated by GAGE Faculty Associate JEFFREY LEGRO, with comments from Professor JOHN ECHEVERRI-GENT, this symposium will examine the nature of the terrorist threat based in Pakistan and assess U.S. counter-terrorism policy in the region.
This symposium is part of a two day event examining various aspects of politics in Pakistan and US-Pakistan relations, organized by John Echeverri-Gent of the Politics Department and the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Virginia. Please see the conference website for the full schedule of events.
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).
MELISSA NOBLES is Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT. Her teaching and research interests are in the comparative study of racial and ethnic politics, and issues of retrospective justice. Her book, Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics (Stanford University Press, 2000), received the Outstanding Book Award for 2001 from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, as well as an Honorable Mention for the Ralph Bunch Book Award from the American Political Science Association. Nobles received her PhD in political science from Yale University, and has been a Fellow at Boston University’s Institute on Race and Social Division (2000-01) and Harvard University's Radcliffe Center for Advanced Study (2003-04).
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.
