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War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism 1/26/09 - DOUGLAS J. FEITH is Professor and Distinguished Practitioner in National Security Policy at Georgetown University. A Belfer Center Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, he is the author of War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism (Harper, 2008). Feith has received the Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Defense Department's highest civilian award. |
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Christian McMillen, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia 1/23/09 - McMillen currently has an article in Bulletin of the History of Medicine titled "'The Red Man and the White Plague': Rethinking American Indians, Tuberculosis, and Race, 1890-1950." He is also working on a book on global TB control with the support of the Center for Global Health at the University of Virginia, the Welcome Trust in England and a year-long fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He spoke at the Miller Center on January 23, 2009. |
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Siva Vaidhyanathan speaks to the UVaEngagement Community 1/14/09 - U.Va. Media Studies Professor Siva Vaidhyanathan spoke to the UVaEngagement Community, a group of engagement and fundraising professionals at the University, about the |
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Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North 1/12/09 - THOMAS J. SUGRUE is Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in twentieth-century American politics, urban history, civil rights, and race, Sugrue was educated at Columbia; King's College, Cambridge; and Harvard, where he earned his PhD in 1992. He is author of Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (Random House, 2008). |
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Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 12/8/08 - MICHAEL JOSEPH SMITH has written extensively on the ethical dilemmas raised by contemporary international politics, most recently contributing to the United Nations International Commission on Sovereignty and Intervention. He is the Thomas C. Sorenson Professor of Political and Social Thought and Associate Professor of Politics at U.Va. He has taught as an Assistant Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard, and came to U.Va. in 1986, where he currently directs the interdisciplinary, undergraduate program in Political and Social Thought. Smith teaches courses on human rights, political thought, and ethics and international relations, and won the All-University Teaching Award in 2002. Here he speaks at the Miller Center on December 8, 2008. |
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A Virginia Dynasty? James Monroe and the Presidential Elections of 1816 and 1820 12/3/08 - DANIEL F. PRESTON is Editor of The Papers of James Monroe at the James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library. His articles include "James Monroe: Occasional Lawyer" in America's Lawyer-Presidents: From Law Office to the Oval Office (Northwestern University Press, 2004) and "James Monroe" in The American Presidents (Readers Digest, 2001). Preston has delivered numerous presentations and conference papers on James Monroe and other historical figures, and his awards include a fellowship at the David Bruce Centre for American Studies at Keele University (United Kingdom) and a Mellon Fellowship Grant from the Virginia Historical Society. This is the annual Gordon and Mary Beth Smyth Forum on American History that took place at the Miller Center on December 3, 2008. |
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Ch 11/21/08 - JENNIFER MCCOY is a Political Science Professor at Georgia State University, and Director of the Americas Program at The Carter Center in Atlanta. She is an internationally recognized expert on Venezuelan politics, and she accompanied President Jimmy Carter on his historic 2002 trip to Cuba. She is editor and contributor to The Unraveling of Representative Democracy in Venezuela (Johns Hopkins University, 2004); Political Learning and Redemocratization in Latin America: Do Political Leaders Learn from Political Crises? (North-South Center, 2000); and Venezuelan Democracy Under Stress (North-South Center, 1995). She spoke at the Miller Center on November 21, 2008. |
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The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race and Deindustrialization 11/21/08 - Guian McKee joined the Miller Center's Presidential Recordings Program in August 2002. He received a Ph.D. in American history at the University of California, Berkeley in May 2002; prior to joining the Miller Center, McKee was a visiting scholar in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include U.S. social policy history and urban history. He is the author of The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia, which will be published in Fall 2008 by the University of Chicago Press. He is also the author of Lyndon Johnson and the War on Poverty: How Policymakers Try to Deliver on Social Promises (tentative title), which will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. He has published articles in the Journal of Urban History, Journal of Policy History, Journal of Planning History, and the Boston Globe. He spoke at the Miller Center on November 21, 2008. |
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