Sidney M. Milkis

Sidney M. Milkis

E-mail: smm8e@virginia.edu

Phone: 434-924-6052

Sidney M. Milkis is the White Burkett Miller Professor of Politics and Assistant Director for Academic Programs at the Miller of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on the American presidency, political parties and elections, social movements and American political development.

View his curriculum vitae.

Miller Center Projects

Milkis's books include The President and the Parties: The Transformation of the American Party System Since the New Deal (1993); The Politics of Regulatory Change: A Tale of Two Agencies, with Richard A. Harris, 2nd edition (1996); Political Parties and Constitutional Government: Remaking American Democracy (1999); Presidential Greatness (2000), co-authored with Marc Landy; and The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776–2007, 5th edition, (2007) co-authored with Michael Nelson; and American Government: Balancing Rights and Democracy, 2nd edition, (2007) with Marc Landy. He is the co-editor, with Jerome Mileur, of three volumes on twentieth-century political reform: Progressivism and the New Democracy (1999); The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism (2002); and The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism (2005). He has just completed a book, Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party Campaign, and the "Critical" Election of 1912 (Kansas University Press, 2009). In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate students, he regularly gives public lectures on American politics and participates in programs for international scholars and high school teachers that probe the deep historical roots of contemporary developments in the United States.

Selected Publications

For a complete list of Sidney Milkis’s articles and books, please see his curriculum vitae.

• Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party Campaign, and the "Critical" Election of 1912, Kansas University Press, 2009
• American Government: Balancing Rights and Democracy, 2nd edition, with Marc Landy, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776–1998, 5th edition, with Michael Nelson, Congressional Quarterly Press, 2007
• The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism, with Jerome Mileur, University of Massachusetts Press, 2005
• The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism, with Jerome Mileur, University of Massachusetts Press, 2002
• Presidential Greatness, with Marc Landy, University Press of Kansas, 2000.
• Progressivism and the New Democracy, with Jerome Mileur, University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
• Political Parties and Constitutional Government: Remaking American Democracy, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
• The Politics of Regulatory Change: A Tale of Two Agencies, with Richard A. Harris, Oxford University Press, 1996.
• The President and the Parties: The Transformation of the American Party System Since the New Deal, Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Remaking American Politics, with Richard A. Harris, Westview Press, 1989.

Course List

• Honors Seminar in American Politics
• The American Presidency
• The Politics of Reform, an intellectual history
• American Political Development, a graduate seminar
• Graduate Seminar on the American Presidency