Associate Professor
Contact Information
Phone: 703-993-1407
Fairfax Campus, Aquia Building, Room 323
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
MSN: 3F4
Biography
Char R. Miller is an associate professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at AV. His work focuses on political aesthetics, sovereignty, and disciplinary technologies.
His bookCities on the Plainsexamines the roles of violence in consolidating political communities. His previous book,Taylored Citizenship, explored conceptions of economic discipline in the 20th century. His current book project examines the power of money and its relations to political sovereignty. He is also working on a project that treats Paul of Tarsus as a useful interlocutor in thinking about global catastrophes, such as the ongoing environmental crisis.
Curriculum Vitae
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Schar School of Policy and Government
GeorgeMasonUniversity
3351 Fairfax Drive
703/993-1407
48GStreetSW
Washington,D.C.20024
202/253-8772
cmillerd@gmu.edu
TEACHINGEXPERIENCE
GeorgeMasonUniversity,AssociateProfessor,2008-present
GeorgeMasonUniversity,AssistantProfessor,2001-present
EDUCATION
TheJohnsHopkins University
Ph.D., Political Science, January 1999 Dissertation:"State InstitutionsandSubjectivity"
IdahoStateUniversity
B.S.withHighHonors,Political Science,August1990
B.A.withHighHonors,History, August1990
PUBLICATIONS
Books
CitiesonthePlains: DivinityandDiversity.(NewYork:Macmillan/Palgrave,2009).
TayloredCitizenship:StateDisciplineandSubjectivity.(NewYork:Praeger Publishers, 2001).
Journal Articles
“ToftheAnti-Christ:ʲܱ’sSubversionof辱.”PoliticalTheoryVol.37,No.4 (2009) 562-570.
“AٳپofStrength:theAirForce Memorialandվ’sLastWar”
TheoryandEvent12:1(2009).
"'IntheSweatofOurBrow': DomesticDiscipline,National Identity,andIndividualism."
JournalofAmericanCulture. Vol.26(Sept.2003),Is.3.395-409.
"ConsumingCosmopolitans:MarthaNussbaumandFrancisMayes GetaPurchaseon Italy and the World."GenreVol. 23 (2003) 80-83.
"DrawingOutTheory:ArtandtheTeachingofPoliticalTheory."PS:PoliticalScience and Politics(June 2000), 213-218.
"TheStar-SpangledBanner."JournalofAmericanHistory (December2000),977-981.
BookChapters
"’Neither Palace, Nor Temple, Nor Tomb’:The Lincoln Memorial in an Age of CommercialRe-appropriation."InMichaelE.Geisler,ed.,Contested Ground:National Symbols and National Identity(University Press of New England, 2005), 195-220.
"GoDownMoses:ZoraNealeHurston andSigmundFreudonPolitical Identification." In Race and the Production of Modern American Nationalism, ed. Reynolds Scott-
Childress.WellesleyStudiesinCriticalTheory (NewYork:Garland Press,1999),247- 271.
Reviews
“GǴǻFaithand徱.”Theory& Event13:2(2010).
“Z’sSeconddzԲ.”AReviewofSlavojܾ’s OnBelief.InPostmodern Culture.Vol. 13 (January 2003), No. 2.
"InaDemocraticFashion: BookReviewofHerbertBlau,NothinginItself, Complexions of Fashion; Gilles Lipovetsky, Empire of Fashion:Dressing Modern Democracy; and Daniel Roche, The Culture of Clothing: Dress and Fashion in The Ancien Regime." Review in Agora.2.1 (Winter 2003).
“Ancient Greek Popular Literature.” Book review of William Hansen, ed., Anthology of AncientGreekLiterature,(Bloomington:IndianaUniversityPress,1998).TheClassical Review.Vol. 52 (Sept. 2002), Is. 2. pp. 284-287.
BookreviewofKateWeigand,RedFeminism:AmericanCommunismandtheMaking of Women'sLiberation,(Baltimore:JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress,2001)attherequest of History of Education Quarterly.Vol 42 (Summer 2002), No. 2.
dzپCivilityandModernPolitical.”BookreviewofDemocraticCivility: TheHistoryandCross-Cultural Possibilityof aModernPolitical Ideal,EditedbyRobert
W.Hefner.(TransactionPublishers,1998).⳾ǰŧ.Vol.9,No.1-2.pp.173-75.
OtherPublications
“Wٳ.”inTheEncyclopediaofPoliticalThought eds.MichaelGibbons, DianaCoole, Lisa Ellis, and Kennan Ferguson (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). Peer-Reviewed.
ٳ,”inTheEncyclopediaofPoliticalThought eds.MichaelGibbons, Diana Coole, Lisa Ellis, and Kennan Ferguson (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014) Peer-Reviewed.
"Lincoln Memorial" and "Alan Colquhoun." Contributions concerning National Monuments and Postmodernism.Entries for Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, Edited by R. Stephen Sennott, (Chicago:Fitzroy DearbornPublishers, 2004).
"JohnRussellPope."Entry forEncyclopediaofTwentiethCenturyArchitecture,Edited by R. Stephen Sennott, (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2004).
American Government StudyGuide.CompaniontoAmerican GovernmentbyAlanR. Gitelson,RobertL.Dudley, andMelvinJ.Dubnick(Boston: HoughtonMifflin,2001). Revised (Boston:Houghton Mifflin, 2003).
DemocracyinAmerica: DzԱ’sResponsibility:ADemocracyReader.(Washington: Annenberg/EFC, 2003).Co-authored with Robert Dudley and Joel Clark.
"FrederickWinslow Taylor."EntryforEncyclopediaofWorldBiography,Editedby Jennifer Mossman, (Cambridge, MA: Gale Group, 2002).
DirtyLinen:World andFolkMusic.PoliticalCultureCritic.(1998-2005).
WebPosts
GRANTS
Annenberg/EFC.DemocracyinAmerica:DzԱ’sResponsibility.Investigatorwith Robert Dudley for $160,000 award for a pre-service and in-service distance learning course on democracy and citizenship for high school instructors.
TAC (Technology Across the Curriculum) Grant.Awarded $1000.00 initial grant to create a program for Democracy 101 in which students create web pages together as public and political space. Additional $1000.00 possible uponfurther implementation and review.
N.E.H.Fellowship.Participant in awarded fellowship for the creation and implementationofWesternCivilizationProjectatGeorge MasonUniversity,Fall2001.
CONFERENCEPRESENTATIONS
“ęIԳٴthatGreatVoid’: SpringsteenandthePoliticalForceofMusical Horror.”Western Political Science Conference. Las Vegas. April 3, 2015.
“LܲԲMatters:PovertyandViolenceinCharlie.”AmericanPolitical Science Conference. Washington, DC. 2014.
“WofDeath:Money, Sacrifice,andSovereigntyinʱٴ’sRepublic.”American Political Science Conference. Chicago, 2013.
“SwanSong:PoliticalAction andtheFuture.” WesternPoliticalScience Conference. Seattle. April 2013.
“A岹SmithandtheFluidityofղܱ.”RelationalForms II-Excertascientia: Literature, Science and the Arts. Porto, Portugal. December 2013.
“ęGDZWithout⾱Բ’:Arendt andChaplinonٲٱԱ.”Western Political Science Conference.Hollywood. April 2012.
“OܳofDeath:MessianicTimeandMoneyin䲹’sResponsetoPaul. ”Western Political Science Conference. April 3, 2010.
“ĺDivinityOpposesѱ’:SocratesandthePoliticalٱDz.”AmericanPolitical Science Association Conference. Toronto, Canada.Sept 5, 2009.
“Note to Self:Martin Amis and Monetary Suicide.” International Conference LandscapesoftheSelf:Identity, Discourse,Representation.Evora,Portugal.November 26, 2010.
“ęRDztheVast’:Marx,Shakespeare,andtheBeliefinMoney.” AmericanPolitical Science Association Conference. Washington, DC.Sept. 4, 2010.
“OܳofDeath:MessianicTimeandMoneyin䲹’sResponsetoPaul. ”Western Political Science Association Conference. April 3, 2010.
“ĺDivinity Opposesѱ’:Socrates andthePoliticalٱDz.”American Political Science Association Conference. 2009. Toronto, Canada. Sept 5, 2009.
“CatechismsofCapitalism:WittgensteinandBelief”.A ReturntotheSenses:Political Theory and the Sensorium.Trent University.May 7-9, 2009.
“’A Name is a Multitude of Situations’: Carl Schmitt on the Miracles, Messiahs, and GolemsofʴDZپ.”Western PoliticalScienceAssociationConference.March18-21, 2009.
“LDZandEmpireinContemporaryAppropriationsofʲܱ.”American PoliticalScience Association Conference.Boston, Ma.Aug. 30, 2008.
“AٳپofStrength:theAirForceMemorialandվ’sLast².”Western Political Science Association Conference.San Diego, Ca.2008.
“’A Wonderful Accusation’: Mourningand the GodsinSophoclesand Plato.” NortheasternPolitical ScienceConference,Philadelphia,PA.November2007.
"DiversityandDivinity:WhattheGodsNeed."American PoliticalScienceConference, Chicago, IL.September 2007.
“B,Belonging,andվDZԳ.”WesternPoliticalScience AssociationConference, Las Vegas, NV.March 2007.
ٱDestructionandtheCityofٳ.”Language, Communication,Culture Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.November 2006.
“CٲofRuins:Righteous DestructionintheWritingsofGoreVidal.”Northeastern Political Science Conference, Boston, MA.November 2006
“WisCordoba?PossessionandIdentityinҵܲ.”APoliticalScience Conference.Philadelphia, PA.September 2006.
theArmswithwhichLoveisArmed: LoveandDesire inѲ.”Western Political Science Association Conference. Albuquerque, NM. March 2006.
“Aܳٴ-DzԲDemocracy:MovementandSurveillanceinHenryFordandPaul Virilio.”Submitted to APSA Conference 2005.Washington, DC.
“TPerfectMachine:Cars,Cows,andDzԲܳپDz.”InternationalLanguage, Communication, Culture Conference.Beja, Portugal. November 24-27, 2004.
“CپonthePlain. ”Presentedatthe2004Western PoliticalScienceConference. Portland. March 11, 2004.
“AWayofUsingʴǷɱ.”9thInternationalCultureandPowerConference.Lisbon, Portugal.November 2003.
貹ofBrimstoneand.”8thInternationalCultureandPowerConference.Evora, Portugal.November 2002.
"VisioninMotion:Vision, Perception,andSubjectivityinPaulVirilio, Moholy-Nagy and Deleuze and Guattari." Chapter presentedatthe2001American PoliticalScience Association Conference.
"InternetPublics: ConcerningDemocraticandRepublicanThought intheAgeofCyber Communities." Presentation at the Law and Society Conference, July 2001.
"'NotaThingItself': RenéGirard,Jacques LacanandHenry FordonDesire,” Southwestern Political Science Association Meeting, March 2001.
"AffordableDesires: CitizenshipandCommodity."AmericanPoliticalScience Association, September 1999.
MilitaryProductionsPanel,Chair,AmericanPolitical ScienceAssociation,August1997.
"ExpansivePerceptions:RolesofEducationinAmericanPolitical Consciousnessduring World War II."Northeast Political Science Association, November 1997.
"BasicTraining: RolesoftheMilitaryintheConstructionofAmericanSubjectivity." American Political Science Association, August 1997.
"ThePoliticalConstructionofRacismintheNewDealEra."NortheastPoliticalScience Association, November 1996.
"RaceandCitizenshipinTwentieth-CenturyAmerica."AmericanStudiesAssociation, November 1995.
"Birth,Sacrifice andtheNation: RenéGirardandToniMorrison."LawandSociety Association, May 1993.
PUBLICPRESENTATIONS
January 24, 2015. Discussion with Mike Wiser (Producer of Frontline: United States of Secrets) on “Oɱ America” GovernmentTransparencyandPersonalPrivacy inthe Digital Age. MLK Library. DC.
February16,2010.National CapitalMemorialAdvisory Commission.Commentsonthe proposed Eisenhower Memorial.
SERVICE
- ProgramOrganizerforWesternPoliticalScienceConference.Interpretationsand Methods Section. (2010).
- DirectorofGMU/AUR PrograminRome,Italy(2009).
- AdvisortoDissertationandMastersProjects
- UniversityPre-LawAdvisor, GeorgeMasonUniversity
- AlphaOmicronPi,FacultyAdvisor
AWARDS
- Dean'sTeachingFellowshipAwardforPoliticsofAssimilation,JohnsHopkins University,Fall1995.
- Summerresearchawardtoexamine raceandtheinternationalpresentationofthe UnitedStates government through the United States InformationAgency.Johns Hopkins University, Summer 1995.
- VillaSpellman,Fellowshiptoattendathree-monthseminar sponsoredbytheHistory Department of The Johns Hopkins University in Florence, Italy, covering topics relating to theories of popular political culture, Fall 1993.
- FullscholarshipplusstipendtoattendTheJohnsHopkins University,1991-1999.
COURSESTAUGHT
- IntroductiontoPolitical Theory-Ancient,Modern,andContemporary
- AmericanPoliticalThought
- Democracy:TheoryandPractice
- EnvisioningPolitics:Political TheoryandCulture ontheItalian Peninsula
- Democracy:GiftoftheGods/ChildofHumanity
- SwordandtheWord:Ancient GreekPoliticalThought
- AmericanPoliticalCulture
PROFESSIONALMEMBERSHIPS
- AmericanPoliticalScienceAssociation
- APSAOrganized Sections:FoundationsofPoliticalTheory, PoliticsandHistory, and Conference on Film and Politics
- WesternPoliticalScience Association
- PopularCultureAssociation
REFERENCES
Availableon Request.
Areas of Research
- Political Theory
- Public Law
- Political Culture