|  Ernest
J. Walters, Jr. Lecture Series in Political Thought
Dr.
Eugene F. Miller
University of Georgia
“Politics
in the Age of Technology: Are the Classics Still Relevant Today?”,
2001
Dr. Eugene
F. Miller is Professor of Political Science at the University of
Georgia. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Emory University before
obtaining his Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought from the
University of Chicago.
He is the author
of numerous articles that have appeared in the American Political
Science Review, Journal of Politics, The American Journal of Jurisprudence,
Review of Politics, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences,
The Political Science Reviewer, American Journalism, Quarterly Journal
for Speech, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, The Southern
Communication Journal, Semiotica, New Scholasticism, The Personalist,
Modern Age, Teaching Political Science, Soundings, New Individualist
Review. He is editor of David Hume: Essays, Moral, Political, and
Literary and author of many chapters for books dealing with modern,
contemporary, and American political philosophy.
From 1982-90
he co-directed (with William B. Allen) a series of nineteen seminars,
colloquia, and symposia held at various sites in the United States
on “The Philosophy of the Founding Fathers: An Inquiry into
the United States Constitution.” He is currently co-directing
(with Timothy Fuller) a continuing series of programs on “Education
in a Free Society.”
Professor Miller
has taught a wide variety of graduate and undergraduate courses
in political philosophy and is the recipient of numerous awards
for excellence in teaching. In addition to his many professional
accomplishments, Professor Miller is uniquely qualified to inaugurate
the Walters Lecture series. Not only did he teach with Jay Walters
at Furman University (1963-67) and develop a lifelong friendship
with Jay and Terry Walters, but he also provided the initial impetus
for a Memorial Endowment Fund to honor Professor Walters’
twenty-seven years of service to Furman University.
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