'Making the Presidency: John Adams'

Lindsay M. Chervinsky, a Miller Center nonresident faculty senior fellow, is the executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library. Previously, she was a senior non-residential fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University and an historian at the White House Historical Association. She is the author of  Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic,  published by Oxford University Press in September 2024. She is also the author of The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution (2020) and co-editor of  Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture (2023), which was published by the Miller Center Studies on the Presidency series with University of Virginia Press. Chervinsky has been published in major media outlets and is regularly interviewed on American history.  She received her BA in history and political science from the George Washington University and holds an MA and PhD  from the University of California, Davis.

Saikrishna Prakash, a Miller Center faculty senior fellow, is the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law and Paul G. Mahoney Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School. His scholarship focuses on separation of powers, particularly executive powers. He teaches constitutional law, foreign relations law, and presidential powers. Prakash clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. He is the author of The Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument Against Its Ever-Expanding Powers (2020) and Imperial from the Beginning: The Constitution of the Original Executive (2015).

William J. Antholis has served as director and CEO of UVA's Miller Center of Public Affairs since January 2015. In that time, the Miller Center has strengthened its position as the leading nonpartisan research institution on the American presidency and worked with scholars across the University of Virginia to deliver vital research to policymakers and the public. Before coming to the Miller Center, Antholis served as managing director at the Brookings Institution from 2004 to 2014, working directly with Brookings's president and vice presidents. Antholis is the author of Inside Out India and China: Local Politics Go Global (2013) and co-author (with Strobe Talbott) of Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming (2010). He has published articles, book chapters, and opinion pieces on U.S. politics, U.S. foreign policy, international organizations, the G8, climate change, and trade.