2026 Jack Miller Fellows

Heath Anderson, Wright State University

Heath Anderson’s research interests include the Civil War and Reconstruction, African American political thought, and how Americans have interpreted the nation’s founding during moments of crisis.

Philip Bunn, Covenant College

Philip Bunn’s research focuses on technological threats to liberty, with additional interests in ancient political thought and politics and literature, especially 20th century American literature.

Evan Coulter, University of Texas at Austin

Evan Coulter’s research focuses on ancient philosophy, especially ancient Greek theories of the soul.

Evan Cree Gee, Emory University

Evan Cree Gee studies factional conflict in classical and early modern political philosophy as well as American political thought.

Ethan Cutler, Boston College

Ethan Cutler works on 19th-century German political philosophy, especially Hegel and Nietzsche. He also has interests in classical Greek philosophy and the American founding, and is at work on a project on Henry Adams’ analysis of Thomas Jefferson.

Jonathan Dahlsten, Purdue University

Jonathan Dahlsten is a political theorist whose research explores the relationship between civic education, political formation, and the history of political thought. His current book project, The Formative Festival, recovers a neglected tradition of civic festivals as sites of public education and character formation in Plato, Rousseau, and Nietzsche and the contemporary United States.

Matthew Dean, Tulane University

Matthew Dean’s research focuses on the philosophy of language in Hans-Georg Gadamer, Plato, and Augustine. He also works on the reception and interpretation of Leo Strauss in China.

Savannah Eccles Johnston, Utah Valley University

Savannah Eccles Johnston studies American political thought and constitutionalism with an emphasis on women and the American political tradition.

Ivy Flessen, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ivy Flessen is an incoming postdoctoral fellow at UW-Madison whose research is focused on the politics of emotions in the history of political thought.

Maria Goyette, Purdue University

Maria Goyette wrote on Aristotle on spiritedness and is interested in ancient, early modern, and American political thought, especially regarding questions related to education.

Connor Grubaugh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Connor Grubaugh is a political theorist and intellectual historian who studies concepts of hope, time, and history in political thought.

Haidun Liu, Harvard University

Haidun Liu studies the history of moral and political thought from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, with a focus on the debate over the concept of supererogation.

William Lombardo, Boston College

William Lombardo studies Hobbes and Rousseau, in particular their thinking about language, about sovereignty, and about the interaction of those two topics.

Cynthia Ma, Cleveland State University

Cynthia Ma works on ancient philosophy, especially ancient Greek and Chinese conceptions of statesmanship.

Benjamin Musachio, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Benjamin Musachio studies the intersections between Russian literature and US civic life in the twentieth century.

Jonathan Pike, Miami University

Hayden Proborowski, Kennesaw State University

Hayden Proborowski’s research interests concern the relationship between moral character and presidential leadership in the thought of the American founding generation. 

Sophie Rizzieri, University of Notre Dame

Sophie Rizzieri’s research interests are Anglo-American legal history, the 18th-Century British Atlantic world, and colonial American political history. She is particularly interested in the ways that the legal profession shaped the British Atlantic world before and after the American Revolution.

Keidrick Roy, Dartmouth College

Keidrick Roy works at the intersection of American intellectual history, literature, and political philosophy, turning to early African American figures to rethink frameworks of liberalism, conservatism, and patriotism.

Tyler Thomas, Arizona State University

Tyler Thomas is interested in modern political thought and American political thought and institutions.

Matthijs Tieleman, Illinois State University

Matthijs Tieleman’s research focuses on the Age of Revolution, specifically the transatlantic entanglements between the American, Irish, and Dutch Patriot in the eighteenth century.

Christopher Utter, Cleveland State University

Christopher Utter’s research focuses on classical political philosophy, with a particular interest in the relationship between the study of nature and human affairs in Aristotle.

Anna Vincenzi, Hillsdale College

Anna Vincenzi’s first book is in interpretations of the American and French revolutions in late-eighteenth century Italy and, more broadly, how the concept of revolution evolved over the course of the Age of Revolution. Her new book project deals with Christian Democracy in Europe before the rise of Fascist regimes, and Christian’s relationship to modernity and the liberal state at the turn of the twentieth century.

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