Miller Center Fellowships in American Politics, Foreign Policy and World Politics
The Miller Center Fellowship program is a competitive program for individuals completing their dissertations on American politics, foreign policy and world politics, or the impact of global affairs on the United States. The program provides up to eight $20,000 grants to support one year of research and writing. Along with the fellowship grant, the Miller Center assists the fellow in choosing a senior scholar from the field to serve as fellowship "mentor". This mentor will suggest relevant literature to frame the project, read the fellow's work, and give general advice on research.
- Current Miller Center Fellows 2008-2009
- Meet the Former Fellows (2000-2007)
- Meet the Mentors
- Newly Published Works by Miller Center Fellows
The Miller Center encourages applicants from a broad range of disciplines, including, but not limited to, history, political science, policy studies, law, political economy, and sociology. Applicants will be judged on the quality of their scholarship and on their potential to shed new light upon contemporary developments in American Politics, Foreign Policy, or World Politics.
The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia also invites applications for the Wilson Carey McWilliams Fellowship. The McWilliams Fellowship supports a graduate student in political science or history whose dissertation combines the special blend of Political Theory and American Politics that characterized the late Wilson Carey McWilliams's extraordinary scholarship. The applicant must be a PhD candidate who is expecting to complete his or her dissertation by the conclusion of the fellowship year. The McWilliams fellow will participate in the regular Miller Center Fellowship program, and will also be paired with a fellowship "mentor."
Requirements: An applicant must be a PhD candidate who is expecting to complete his or her dissertation by the conclusion of the fellowship year. This is not a post-doctoral fellowship.
Residence is strongly encouraged but is not required. All fellows are expected to participate in and contribute to the intellectual discourse at the Center. Each fellow is also expected to participate in two conferences – one in the fall and the other in May of the fellowship year. These conferences will provide a forum for presenting research and findings to the scholarly community at the Miller Center and the University of Virginia. The May conference will bring the Fellows, their Mentors, and the Miller Center and U.Va. community together to critique the Fellows’ dissertation work.
Learn more about the May 2008 Spring Fellows’ Conference.
**UPDATE**
This year, the 2009-2010 Miller Center Fellowship application must be submitted online. The online application will be available on November 15, 2008. Please check back to this website to begin your application in November.
The deadline to apply is February 1, 2009.
The application consists of: 1) applicant information sheet, 2) project description, 3) op-ed proposal, 4) bibliography, 5) curriculum vitae, 6) writing sample, and 7) TWO letters of recommendation. Letters of recommendation may be e-mailed to the GAGE Fellowship review board, or mailed separately to:
Miller Center National Fellowship Program
Miller Center of Public Affairs
2201 Old Ivy Rd
P.O. Box 400406
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4406
Further instructions will be included in the online application. Applicants will be notified of the selection committee's decision in April 2008.
Download the 2008-2009 Fellowship Application (Please note, this is for last year’s contest. All applications for 2009-2010 will be submitted via the online application, available here on November 15, 2008.)
Contact us at or call Sarah Graham, GAGE Program Coordinator, at 434-924-4694, if you have any questions.