Recent Events
Friday, November 20, 2009
12:30 PM
Shane Hamilton
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.
Friday, November 20, 2009
11:00 AM
Karim Sadjadpour
KARIM SADJADPOUR, an associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has served as the chief Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group based in Tehran and Washington, D.C. Sadjadpour has conducted interviews with Iranians from all walks of life, and frequently appears on television, radio, and in print. He has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and has received numerous academic awards, including a Fulbright scholarship. He participated in a 2009 debate on Iran hosted by the Miller Center.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
11:00 AM
Sidney Milkis
Led by Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party made the 1912 presidential campaign a passionate contest for the soul of the American people. In his new book, Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy (University Press of Kansas, 2009), SIDNEY M. MILKIS, White Burkett Miller Professor of Politics at U.Va. and the Miller Center’s Assistant Director for Academic Programs, revisits this emotionally charged contest. This is the Gordon and Mary Beth Smyth History Forum. A book signing will follow his Forum.
Monday, November 16, 2009
11:00 AM
Richard Dreyfuss
Actor and activist RICHARD DREYFUSS frequently speaks and writes in favor of privacy, freedom of speech, democracy, and individual accountability. Since 2006, Dreyfuss has organized and promoted campaigns about what he considers to be the potential erosion of individual rights. This Oscar© winner for Best Actor has discussed teaching civics in schools on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, and serves on the National Constitution Center’s Board of Trustees in Philadelphia.
Friday, November 13, 2009
5:30 PM
John Cooper
JOHN MILTON COOPER Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin will discuss his current book, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography. He is also the author of Pivotal Decades: The United States 1900-1920; and The Vanity of Power. He co-edited The Wilson Era: Essays in Honor of Arthur S. Link. He edited and wrote the introduction to Theodore Roosevelt’s The Winning of the West: From the Alleghenies to the Mississippi 1769-1776. A book signing will follow his Forum.
Friday, November 13, 2009
12:30 PM
Stephen Skowronek
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.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
5:30 PM
Howard Hart, Lawrence Eagleburger
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER was Deputy Secretary of State (1989–92) under President George H.W. Bush before being appointed Secretary of State (1992–93). He also served as Assistant to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger during the Nixon administration, U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia under President Carter, and Undersecretary of State under President Reagan. HOWARD HART served in the CIA's clandestine service for more than 25 years. He served in Tehran before and during the attempted rescue of American embassy hostages, and was chief of station in Islamabad. He has received the CIA's highest award, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal.
Friday, November 6, 2009
12:30 PM
MARIE GOTTSCHALK is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in American politics, with a focus on public policy, including criminal justice, health policy, the U.S. political economy, organized labor, and the development of the welfare state. She is the author of, among other works, The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge, 2006), which won the 2007 Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States (Cornell, 2000).
Friday, November 6, 2009
11:00 AM
Pete Hegseth, Raffi Khatchadourian
RAFFI KHATCHADOURIAN, a staff writer for the New Yorker, interviews PETE HEGSETH, a Princeton graduate and former platoon leader under Colonel Michael Dane Steele, about “The Kill Company: Did a colonel’s fiery rhetoric set the conditions for a massacre?” published in the July 6, 2009 issue of his magazine. This Forum is part of an ongoing series on the state of the U.S. military.
Monday, November 2, 2009
5:30 PM
Jennifer Burns
JENNIFER BURNS, Assistant Professor at U.Va.’s Corcoran Department of History, spent eight years working on Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (Oxford, 2009). During that time, she received a Ph.D. in History from the University of Califorinia, Berkeley.
