The Jack Miller Center welcomes its 2025 cohort of fellows
The Jack Miller Center selected 24 junior scholars to take part in the premier fellowship for scholars of the American political tradition.
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August 5, 2025
Philadelphia, PA – The Jack Miller Center has announced its 2025 class of Jack Miller Fellows, including 24 graduate students and young faculty from 17 universities across the country.
Since 2004, the Jack Miller Fellowship has brought together a community of rising scholars who have committed their careers to teaching the ideas and documents of the American political tradition. With more than 700 alumni, including many of the top American civics scholars in the nation, the fellowship begins with a rigorous two-week Summer Institute in which the new cohort sharpens their understanding of American political thought and history and builds a rich professional network to further their intellectual growth.
“These scholars are some of the brightest young minds in the country,” JMC President Hans Zeiger said. “The fellowship offers them a chance not only to hone their knowledge, but also to join an intellectual community on the frontlines of a civics renaissance.”
2025 Miller Fellows
Nicholas Anderson
Harvard University
Madeleine Armstrong
University of Florida
Amanda Marilyn Arulanandam
Utah Valley University
Tiffany Barron
University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Emma Bernstein
Baylor University
C.C. Borzilleri
Bill of Rights Institute
Austin Bussing
Trinity University
C. David Carlson
University of Notre Dame
Djair Dias Filho
Princeton University
Melissa Dow
University of West Florida
Andrew Gross
Clemson University
Micah Harris
Duke University
Thomas W. Holman
Princeton University
Garrett Jones
University of Texas at Austin
Joseph Keegin
Tulane University
Cynthia Ma
University of Texas at Austin
Joseph Karol Natali
Baylor University
Ben Peterson
Abilene Christian University
Loren Reinoso
Yale University
Sasha Rickard
Boston College
Benjamin Schwabe
University of Texas at Austin
Wan Ning Seah
Duke University
Dallas Terry
University of Missouri
Guang Yang
Boston College
Behind the Miller Fellows
The Jack Miller Fellowship is widely recognized as one of the premier programs for identifying, training, and supporting emerging scholars of the American political tradition.
This year’s Summer Institute was held from July 22-August 1 on the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, Virginia. The theme was “Republicanism and Civic Education.” Institute faculty included prominent scholars such as Teresa Bejan from the University of Oxford, JMC Board Member Lucas Morel from Washington and Lee University, and William Anthony Hay from Arizona State University.
Workshops were taught by leading scholars, including JMC Senior Fellow Paul Carrese, and JMC Board Member Benjamin Kleinerman. By participating in the Summer Institute, Jack Miller Fellows gain ongoing networking opportunities, support for their leadership in new campus programs and events, and invaluable research assistance.
“I think it’s one of the very best professional development events I’ve ever been connected to,” said Melissa Dow, a 2025 Jack Miller Fellow who attended the Summer Institute. “It’s not only about developing our minds, but also workshops that help us grow in our professional lives and the practice. As a whole experience, I think it’s been absolutely fantastic.”
The Jack Miller Center, founded in 2007, is a Philadelphia-based educational nonprofit committed to solving the national crisis of uninformed citizenship by teaching America’s founding principles and history. In addition to Summer Institutes and the Miller Fellows program within the American Political Tradition Project, JMC also directs the Founding Civics Initiative to revitalize K-12 civic education and an annual National Summit on Civic Education.