2026 Jack Miller Fellows

Heath Anderson, Wright State University

Philip Bunn, Covenant College

Evan Coulter, University of Texas at Austin

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

Jonathan Dahlsten, Purdue University

Matthew Dean, Tulane University

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.

Ejuerleigh Jones, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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

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

Matthijs Tieleman, Illinois State University

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

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