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.
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 Bunche 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).
Please note, this colloquium will take place on a Monday.
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.
