Experts
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William J. Antholis
Antholis is director and CEO of the Miller Center. He served as President Clinton’s director of international economic affairs on the staff of the National Security Council.
Alexander Bick
Bick, a Miller Center faculty senior fellow, is an associate professor of practice in public policy at the University of Virginia. He previously served in the Biden administration as director for strategic planning at the National Security Council.
Ashley Deeks
Deeks, a Miller Center faculty senior fellow, is the vice dean of the University of Virginia School of Law and the Class of 1948 Professor of Scholarly Research in Law. She served in the Biden administration as White House associate counsel.
Eric Edelman
Edelman, a Miller Center practitioner senior fellow, retired as a career minister from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2009, after having served in senior positions at the Departments of State and Defense and the White House.
Everett Eissenstat
Eissenstat, a James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center, served as deputy assistant to the president for international economic affairs during the first Trump presidency. He is currently a partner at Squire Patton Boggs.
Chris Liddell
Liddell, a Miller Center practitioner senior fellow, was assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff for policy coordination during the first Trump administration. He is the author of Year Zero: The Five-Year Presidency.
Chris Lu
Lu, a James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center, served as a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Biden administration and the U.S. deputy secretary of labor during the Obama administration.
Guian McKee
McKee is the White Burkett Miller Professor of Public Affairs at the Miller Center, where he codirects the Presidential Recordings Program and the Health Care Policy Project. He has written extensively about urban policy and health care.
Sidney Milkis
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, and social movements.
Barbara Perry
Perry is the Miller Center’s J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance and codirects the Presidential Oral History Program. She has authored many books on presidents, First Ladies, the Kennedy family, the Supreme Court, and civil rights.
Rachel Potter
Potter, a Miller Center faculty senior fellow, is an associate professor of politics at the University of Virginia. She studies the hidden politics of procedure and process in American political institutions, with a focus on bureaucracy and regulation.
Saikrishna Prakash
Prakash, a Miller Center faculty senior fellow, is the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law and Horace W. Goldsmith Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School.
Russell Riley
Riley is the Miller Center’s White Burkett Miller Center Professor of Ethics and Institutions and codirects the Presidential Oral History Program. He is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on elite oral history interviewing.
Andrew Rudalevige
Rudalevige, a Miller Center faculty senior fellow, is the Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government at Bowdoin College. He specializes in American political institutions.
Mara Rudman
Rudman is a professor of practice at the Miller Center, where she directs the Ripples of Hope Project. Her government positions included serving as deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs in the Obama and Clinton administrations.
Marc Selverstone
Selverstone is the Gerald L. Baliles Professor of Presidential Studies at the Miller Center, the Center’s director of presidential studies, and the codirector of the Center’s Presidential Recordings Program.
Allan C. Stam
Stam, a Miller Center faculty senior fellow, is a University Professor, professor of public policy and politics, and former dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia.
Louisa Terrell
Terrell, a Miller Center practitioner senior fellow, served as assistant to the president and director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs under President Biden. She was a senior advisor to the Harris-Walz campaign.