Democratic capitalism in the age of Trump

Sidney Milkis is the Miller Center’s White Burkett Miller Professor of Governance and Foreign Affairs and a UVA professor of politics. His research focuses on the American presidency, political parties and elections, social movements, and American political development. 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. His many books include the recently published What Happened to the Vital Center?: Presidentialism, Populist Revolt, and the Fracturing of America. He holds a BA from Muhlenberg College and a PhD in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Scott Miller is the director of the Miller Center's Project on Democracy and Capitalism and an assistant professor at the Miller Center. He is also a lecturer and research associate at the UVA Darden School of Business. From 2019 to 2021, he held a postdoctoral fellowship in economic and business history at the Yale School of Management’s International Center for Finance. He is the author or co-author of numerous scholarly papers on economic history, financial crises, and the interplay between societal and economic change and has written or co-written 10 case studies on financial crises and economic development. Miller earned a BA from Vanguard University, an MA in American history from George Mason University, and an MA and PhD in economic history from the University of Virginia.

Margaret Foster Riley, the Dorothy Danforth Compton Professor at the Miller Center, is professor of law at the University of Virginia’s School of Law, professor of public health sciences at the UVA School of Medicine, and professor of public policy at the University’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. She also directs the Animal Law Program at the law school. Riley has advised numerous state and federal agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration; the Environmental Protection Agency; the Department of Defense; committees of the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine; the Virginia Department of Health; and the Virginia Bar. She holds a BA from Duke University and a JD from Columbia University.

Hannah Knox Tucker is an assistant professor of history in the department of business humanities and law at the Copenhagen Business School and a Miller Center nonresident faculty senior fellow. Her research examines the entrepreneurial and managerial functions of traders in the early-modern Atlantic, and her teaching focuses on entrepreneurship in platform businesses, early-stage startups, and business ethics. She has published several journal articles and has written edited volume chapters for Palgrave, Brill, and Oxford (forthcoming). She is working on a book project titled Maritime Mastery: Ship Captaincy in the British Atlantic, 1680-1774. She holds a BA from the College of William and Mary and a PhD from the University of Virginia.