The Jack Miller Center welcomes its 2025 cohort of fellows

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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. Our hundreds of fellowship alumni include 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 Jack 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.” JMC Board Member Wilfred McClay rounded out the two weeks of seminars and workshops with his remarks at the closing dinner. Seminars and workshops were offered by 10 prominent scholars, including:

• Teresa Bejan, University of Oxford
• Lucas Morel, Washington and Lee University
• William Anthony Hay, Arizona State University
• Paul Carrese, Arizona State University
• Jed Atkins, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Benjamin Kleinerman, Baylor University
• Rita Koganzon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Diana Schaub, Loyola University Maryland
• Jeremy Bailey, University of Florida
• Devin Stauffer, University of Texas at Austin

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.

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