The Tocqueville Forum is pleased to announce the appointment of Brian Smith as its inaugural Jack Miller Postdoctoral Fellow. A political theorist, Brian earned his doctorate in Government from Georgetown University in July 2008. In the 2008-9 Academic Year, Brian will teach courses in the American political tradition and continue to convene the Tocqueville Forum’s undergraduate reading group.

Supported by a generous donation from the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History, this fellowship will contribute to both the Jack Miller Center and the Tocqueville Forum’s mission to educate undergraduates in the American tradition. The Jack Miller Center is a nonprofit, nonsectarian, and nonpartisan educational organization that works with educators in response to requests for resources to strengthen the teaching of America’s founding principles and history. Based in Philadelphia, the Jack Miller Center provides programs and resources that are needed to support and increase the number of college professors in the humanities and social sciences who teach these principles and who inspire and cultivate an atmosphere of civil discussion. The goal of the Jack Miller Center is to ensure college students receive the best possible education and are prepared to be good stewards of our nation’s freedoms and the free institutions that protect all Americans’ liberties.