The presidency transformed? Trump 47 at 100 days

Sidney M. 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 upcoming Subverting the Republic: Donald J. Trump and the Perils of Presidentialism and 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.

Saikrishna Prakash, a Miller Center faculty senior fellow, is the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law and Paul G. Mahoney Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School. His scholarship focuses on separation of powers, particularly executive powers. He teaches constitutional law, foreign relations law, and presidential powers. Prakash clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. He is the author of The Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument Against Its Ever-Expanding Powers (2020) and Imperial from the Beginning: The Constitution of the Original Executive (2015).

Marc Short is a partner at Advance Strategies, a contributor for CNBC, and a fellow at Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service. He served as chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence and as assistant to the president and director of legislative affairs at the White House for President Donald J. Trump. Short was previously president of Freedom Partners and senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. Early in his career, he was the executive director of the Reagan Ranch from 1998–2001 and served as the executive director of Freedom Alliance from 1995–1998. He graduated from Washington and Lee University and received his MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, a Miller Center practitioner senior fellow, is director of the Katzmann Initiative and visiting fellow with governance studies at the Brookings Institution. She is also an advisory board member for the White House Transition Project, a fellow with the Center for Presidential Transition at the Partnership for Public Service, and was secretary of the Governance Institute. Tenpas is a scholar of the American presidency focused on White House staffing, presidential transitions, and the intersection of politics and policy within the presidency (e.g., presidential reelection campaigns, trends in presidential travel, and polling).

William J. Antholis has served as director and CEO of UVA's Miller Center of Public Affairs since January 2015. In that time, the Miller Center has strengthened its position as the leading nonpartisan research institution on the American presidency and worked with scholars across the University of Virginia to deliver vital research to policymakers and the public. Before coming to the Miller Center, Antholis served as managing director at the Brookings Institution from 2004 to 2014, working directly with Brookings's president and vice presidents. Antholis is the author of Inside Out India and China: Local Politics Go Global (2013) and co-author (with Strobe Talbott) of Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming (2010). He has published articles, book chapters, and opinion pieces on U.S. politics, U.S. foreign policy, international organizations, the G8, climate change, and trade.