Archive for the ‘Miller Fellows News’ Category
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Baltimore Maryland, August 5th, 2010
City of Baltimore
Maryland Governor, Martin O’Malley and Baltimore Mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced new members of the Baltimore City School Board. Jack Miller Center Fellow, Shanashya Sauls was appointed as Parent Representative for the upcoming year.
Professor Sauls is an assistant professor at the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington D.C. and a Board
Member of the Downtown Baltimore Family Alliance. Sauls is also the co-founder of the Patterson Park Public Charter School.
Sauls participated in the Jack Miller Summer Institute at UVA in the Summer of 2010. She received her Ph.D. from Duke University for research in the political thought of Alexander Hamilton. She received a Graduate Fellowship from the National Science Foundation 2003-2006.
Tags: Alexander Hamilton, American University, civic education, Duke University, Jack Miller Center Fellow, Shanaysha Sauls, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
Maintaining a peaceful democracy amidst radically different religious views.
Tags: Alasdair MacIntyre, Catholic Church, Catholic Political Thought, Jacques Maritain, John Rawls, Philosophy, Political philosophy, Thaddeus J. Kozinski
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
The Jack Miller Center Chairman’s Award for Best Dissertation in American Political Thought and its foundations.
Tags: American Political Thought, dissertation award, dissertation prize, education funding, Higher Education, Jack Miller Center, Political Science
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
Examination of law, justice, virtue, and philosophy in the ancient world.
Tags: Jack Miller Center, Johns Hopkins University, Mark Blitz, Philosophy, Plato, Political philosophy
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Sunday, April 11th, 2010
The Jack Miller Center has begun collecting online introductory essays and book recommendations for topics and themes that broaden understanding of the American Founding.
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton, Allen Guelzo, Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Kleinerman, David Hume, Federalist Papers, George Thomas, Jack Miller Center, James Madison, James Stoner, Jeremy Bailey, John Adams, Montesquieu, Peter McNamara, Publius, Richard Samuelson, Sandra Peart, Scott Yenor, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Pangle
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Monday, April 5th, 2010
Jonathan Marks, of Ursinus College, has been awarded an “Enduring Questions Grant” from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Tags: Enduring Questions Grant, Grant Writing, Jonathan Marks, Undergraduate education, Ursinus College
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Scholars and justices across the political divide have turned to one form or another of original meaning to aid them in interpreting the Constitution.
Tags: Claremont McKenna College, Fourteenth Amendment, George Thomas, Kelo v. City of New London, Supreme Court
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
The Jack Miller Center wants to congratulate the members of our JMC network who have published a book length manuscript in the last calendar year. Few accomplishments are as meaningful and lasting for authors, and those who read them.
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Allen Guelzo, Barry Strauss, Benjamin Kleinerman, Brian Schoen, Christopher Kelly, civic education, Colleen Sheehan, Donald Critchlow, Eric Sands, Gordon Wood, Harvey Klehr, James Madison, Jeffrey K. Tulis, John Dinan, Jonathan Dunn, Louie Herbert, Michael Gillespie, Michael Zuckert, Nathan Busch, Paul Rahe, Ralph Lerner, Robert Faulkner, Robert Koons, Ross Corbett, Soft Despotism Democracy's Drift: Montesquieu Rousseau Tocqueville and the Modern Prospect, Steve Kautz, Steven Smith, Susan Shell, Tocqueville, William Hay
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
The Tocqueville Forum at Georgetown University is pleased to announce that Sarah Houser was selected as the new Jack Miller Post-Doc.
Tags: Citizenship, civic education, Cosmopolitanism, Jack Miller Center, Jürgen Habermas, Martha Nussbaum, Sarah Houser, Tocqueville Forum
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