Miller Center National Fellowship Conference: Spring 2011
The University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs will host the 2011-12 Miller Center National Fellowship Conference, on Thursday, May 12 & Friday, May 13 at the Miller Center in Charlottesville, Va.
Click to download a full agenda (PDF), or to view recent colloquia by conference participants.
Conference Video
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Reconfiguring the State Abroad and at Home

Moderator:
Risa Goluboff,
University of Virginia, School of Law

Fellow:
Katherine Unterman,
Yale University

Mentor:
Lisa Cobbs Hoffman,
San Diego State University
Nowhere to Hide:
International Rendition and American Power

Fellow:
Quinn Mulroy,
Columbia University

Mentor:
Dan Carpenter,
Harvard University
Private Litigation, Public Policy Enforcement:
The Regulatory Power of Private Litigation and the American Bureaucracy
Remaking Community in Post-World War II America

Moderator:
Guian McKee,
University of Virginia

Fellow:
Francesca Ammon,
Yale University

Mentor:
Edmund Russell,
University of Virginia
Waging War on the Landscape:
Demolition and Clearance in Postwar America

Fellow:
Merlin Chowkwanyun,
University of Pennsylvania

Mentor:
Nancy Langston,
University of Wisconsin
The Dilemmas of ‘Community Health’: 1945-2000
Balancing Secrecy and Transparency in American Foreign Relations:
Perspectives on the Wikileaks Phenomenon

Seth Center,
Office of the Historian, Department of State

P. J. Crowley,
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs

Siva Vaidhyanathan,
University of Virginia
Friday, May 13, 2011
Welcome Remarks: Gerald L. Baliles, Director
Prestige and Leadership in International Relations

Moderator:
Marc Selverstone,
University of Virginia

Fellow:
Jonathan Renshon,
Harvard University

Mentor:
William Wohlforth,
Dartmouth College
Fighting for Status:
Prestige Motivations and Conflict in World Politics

Fellow:
James G. Wilson,
University of Virginia

Mentor:
Jeremi Suri,
University of Wisconsin
Bolts from the Blue:
The United States, the Soviet Union, and the End of the Cold War
Manuscript Review
Ira Katznelson, Fear Itself: New Deal Democracy in a Southern Cage (Forthcoming: Norton, 2012)

Moderator:
Brian Balogh,
University of Virginia

Ira Katznelson,
Columbia University
David Kennedy,
Stanford University

Daryl Michael Scott,
Howard University

Richard Valelly,
Swarthmore College
Imposing Order: Great Power Preferences & the International System

Moderator:
Will Hitchcock,
University of Virginia

Fellow:
Sarah S. Bush,
Princeton University

Mentor:
Miles Kahler,
University of California, San Diego
The Democracy Establishment

Fellow:
Kyle Lascurettes,
University of Virginia

Mentor:
John Ikenberry,
Princeton University