23 Rising Scholars Named
2024 Miller Fellows
This year, 23 promising young academics met in Philadelphia for the Jack Miller Center's premier fellowship program for scholars of the American political tradition: the Miller Fellowship. The Fellowship is key in our work to identify, train, and support emerging scholars in advancing the American political tradition.

It begins each year with the JMC Summer Institute, a rigorous two-week annual conference for a cohort of 20-25 talented young scholars to gain a profound understanding of American political thought and history and build a rich professional network to further their intellectual growth.

Participants have the chance to learn from preeminent scholars in their fields, receive valuable feedback on book abstracts, and make lasting professional and personal connections with like-minded academics.

At the conclusion of the Summer Institute, we continue to invest in our Miller Fellows throughout their careers by providing ongoing networking opportunities, supporting their leadership in new campus programs and events, and offering invaluable research assistance.
Read our press release on the 2024 Miller Fellows
Learn more about the Miller Fellowship
2024 Miller Fellows
Nicholas Barden
Georgetown University

Evelyn Behling
University of Notre Dame

Alexis Carré
Harvard University

Michael R. Gonzalez
University of Toledo

Sam Hage
Tulane University

Max Lykins
Bowdoin College

Casey Richard Puerzer
Boston College

Matthew Reising
Princeton University

Jeffrey Tyler Syck
University of Pikeville

Constantine Vassiliou
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Samuel L. Young
Indiana Wesleyan University

Daniel Zoumaya
Utah Valley University
Alexander Batson
University of Texas at Austin

Zachary R. Bennett
Michigan State University

Nicolas Day
Tulane University

Sarah Gustafson
Catholic University of America

Meghan Herwig
University of Florida

Mary Jane Porzenheim
Boston College

Andrea Ray
University of Chicago

Ted J. Richards
University of Mississippi

Chris Tweedt
Christopher Newport University

Matthew H. Young
Elon University

Yiyang Zhuge
Boston College
 
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What We're Reading

READ: "We Are Still 'We the People'"
Yuval Levin/The Free Press
In honor of Constitution Day, Yuval Levin appears in The Free Press writing on what it means to be an American and how the Constitution accounts for disunity:


Our first-person plural Constitution is built on the insight that deep disagreement is a permanent reality but need not make unity impossible. This is because, in a free society, unity doesn’t mean thinking alike; unity means acting together.
How can we act together when we don’t think alike? This is the question to which the Constitution is an answer. It responds to disagreement by compelling competing factions into structured processes of negotiation. It doesn’t simply empower the narrowest of majorities to exercise power. Significant government action must be preceded by a huge amount of bargaining and accommodation—in the states and nationally, within and between the houses of Congress, among the branches of government, and in every facet of the system. A politics of coalition-building and negotiated bargains compels us to see political opponents as policy partners, and as fellow citizens...
 
Read the rest of the piece at The Free Press

READ: "A Liberal and Civic Education for All"
J. Michael Hoffpauir/Law & Liberty
Miller Fellow Michael Hoffpauir examines the role of liberal and civic education in America's colleges and universities while responding to JMC's Senior Fellow for Civic Thought and Leadership Paul Carrese in Law & Liberty:

If we do not counter illiberal education, then students’ belief that identity defines human beings will ossify.
They will accept that power defines every human action and violence is that by which one acquires and maintains all power. This orthodoxy will replace the liberal understanding that human beings are rational creatures capable of reasoning together about shared goals and consenting to abide by agreements about those goals. Students will not know that consent is legitimacy’s hallmark and raw compulsion tyranny’s. Students raised in the schoolhouse of illiberality will be incapable of maintaining our liberal order...We cannot afford to maintain the notion that liberal education is not for “the common man.” Students need liberal education rooted in a community dedicated to open inquiry, intellectual pluralism, civil discourse, and the supposition that we can and should seek truth...
 
Read the rest of the piece at Law & Liberty

READ: "Watering a Nation's Roots"
Hans Zeiger/Gerald R. Ford Leadership Forum
JMC president Hans Zeiger appears in the Gerald R. Ford Leadership Forum with a piece reexamining Russell Kirk's The Roots of American Order on its 50th birthday:

In naming order as the theme, and particularly the
"American Order," Kirk portrayed other values—freedom, equality, and justice among them—in dependence on the existence of order, but also characteristic of America’s order. The theme of order is woven throughout Kirk’s book.

The roots of American order “go deep,” wrote Kirk, “but they require watering from time to time” (Kirk, 470). In his depiction of Western Civilization, Kirk argued that America is a culmination of many cultures and ideas. Rather than being a completely new experiment begun in isolation to the collective experience of the world, America is the embodiment of ideals and principles that first were established by the Greeks, Hebrews, Romans, Christians, and British...
 
Read the rest of the piece at the Ford Leadership Forum
About the Jack Miller Center
 
The Jack Miller Center is a nationwide network of scholars and teachers dedicated to educating the next generation about the core texts and ideas of the American political tradition.

We have four objectives while pursuing this mission:
  1. renew the serious study of America’s founding principles and history in higher education;
  2. transform K-12 teacher education for civics and history teachers;
  3. build the premier online American tradition library and learning tool; and
  4. grow the nationwide movement to strengthen American civic education.
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