Caleb Miller

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Alumnus

Specialization

Political Theory
Democratic Theory
Political Realism

Bio

Visiting Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School
https://ash.harvard.edu/people/caleb-miller

Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara 2018
M.A. University of Chicago 2010
B.A. Brown University 2009

Dissertation: "Living under Post-Democracy: Political Subjectivity in Fleetingly Democratic Times"

Dissertation Committee: Andrew Norris, P. E. Digeser, and Joshua Foa Dienstag (UCLA)

Publications

Selected Publications

“‘A State of Lesser Hope’: The Servant in Hobbes’s Natural Commonwealth” Hobbes Studies 31, no. 2 (Oct 2018): 147-165. doi: 10.1163/18750257-03102002 

*Winner of the 2017 Hobbes Studies Essay Competition

“‘What is to be done’ when there is nothing to do?: Realism and Political Inequality” Constellations 25, no. 4 (Dec 2018): 602-613. doi: 10.1111/1467-8675.12320

“‘When are we ever going to have to use this?’: Discussing Programmatic Learning Outcomes in the Classroom” with Margarita Safronova and Colin Kuehl. Forthcoming in Journal of Political Science Education (online Nov 2018). doi: 10.1080/15512169.2018.1493998 

Courses

POLS 1: Introduction to Political Philosophy

POLS 110DT: Democratic Theory

POLS 110CT: Conservative Political Thought

POLS 187: Ancient/Classical Political Theory

POLS 188: Modern Political Theory

POLS 189: Contemporary Political Theory