Colloquium: Rethinking J. Edgar Hoover: Conservative Power in the Liberal Age

Professor Beverly Gage, Assistant Professor of History at Yale University

Beverly Gage is assistant professor of 20th-century U.S. history at Yale University. Her teaching and research focus on the evolution of American political ideologies and institutions. She teaches courses on terrorism, communism and anticommunism, American conservatism, and 20th-century American politics.

Professor Gage completed her graduate work at Columbia University, where her dissertation received the Bancroft dissertation award for best U.S. history dissertation. Her first book, The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror, examines the history of...click for full abstract

Colloquium: Wars of Choice: Leadership, Threat Perception, and Military Interventions

Professor Elizabeth Saunders, Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University

Elizabeth Saunders is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at George Washington University. In 2007-2008, she was a postdoctoral fellow in National Security at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University.

Her research and teaching interests focus on international relations, and include international security, international relations theory, U.S. foreign policy, military interventions, strategy and military power, and the role of leaders and other domestic actors in international relations. Her current research focuses on the impact of...click for full abstract

Colloquium: Same as it ever was: Nuclear proliferation and lessons from the Cold War

Professor Frank Gavin, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs at University of Texas, Austin

The newest member of the University of Texas' LBJ School's permanent faculty is Assistant Professor Frank Gavin, a historian with teaching and research interests in U.S. policy and national security affairs. Gavin, who has a Ph.D. in diplomatic history from the University of Pennsylvania, believes that one of the most effective methods of examining U.S. foreign policy is through in-depth historical analysis. His retrospective approach aims at using "lessons of the past" in understanding how the policymaking process works and why certain policies succeed...click for full abstract

Colloquium: Second Nature: The Popularization of the Telephone in Late Nineteenth Century Chicago

Professor Richard John, Professor of History at University of Illinois

Richard R. John is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (1995) and many articles on the history of American public policy, business, and communications. He is currently completing a history of early American telecommunications.

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Colloquium: The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race and Deindustrialization

Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia

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. In April 2007, he delivered the keynote address at the conference "In the Shadow of the Great Society: American Politics, Culture and Society Since 1964," hosted by the Rothermere American Institute and the American History Research Seminar, University of Oxford, U.K.

McKee teaches courses on American social policy history and urban history.

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