William Miller is a widely published scholar at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, where he focuses on ethics and institutions.  His most recent work, Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography (Knopf, 2002), will be published this month.

Miller began at the University of Virginia in 1982 and remained there until his retirement in 1999.  He served in various roles, including professor of religious studies, chairman of the department of rhetoric and communication studies and Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of Political and Social Thought. 

He is also the author of Arguing About Slavery: The Great Debate in the United States Congress, The First Liberty: Religion and the American Republic and several other books.