Senior Staff

Dr. Ken Miller (B.A. Pomona College, J.D. Harvard Law School, Ph.D. U.C. Berkeley) is Don H. and Edessa Rose Professor of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College. He became director of the Rose Institute on July 1, 2021, having served as Associate Director from 2009 to June 2021.  He has served as a member of CMC’s Government faculty since 2003. Dr. Miller’s research focuses on state government institutions, with an emphasis on direct democracy and the interaction between law and politics. His publications include Texas vs. California: A History of Their Struggle for the Future of America (Oxford University Press, 2020), Direct Democracy and the Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and co-edited volumes Parchment Barriers: Political Polarization and the Limits of Constitutional Order (University Press of Kansas, 2018) and The New Political Geography of California (Berkeley Public Policy Press, 2008). Dr. Miller was the Ann and Herbert Vaughan Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University (2011-2012) and a visiting scholar at the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University (2017-2018). At the Rose Institute, he has worked with students on numerous research projects, including the biennial Video Voter Guide project and the 24-state Miller-Rose Institute Initiative Database.

Shanna Rose (B.A. Swarthmore College; Ph.D. Harvard University) is the Alice Tweed Tuohy Professor of Management and Government and director of CMC’s public policy major. Her areas of expertise include American politics, federalism, health care policy, social welfare policy, and budget policy. She is the author of Responsive States: Federalism and American Public Policy (with Andrew Karch) (Cambridge 2019) and Financing Medicaid: Federalism and the Growth of America’s Health Care Safety Net (Michigan 2013). Her latest book manuscript, on the politics of minimum wage policy in the United States, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. Professor Rose teaches courses on public policy analysis, empirical methods, and state and local politics and policy.  She has earned several college-wide awards, including CMC’s Roy P. Crocker Award for Service, Professor of the Year at NYU-Wagner, and the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Student Teaching at the Harvard Kennedy School. 

Bipasa Nadon (B.A. University of Chicago, J.D. University of Chicago) has been the Assistant Director for Research and Publications since 2011. In her previous life, she practiced corporate law at Hale and Dorr, LLP in Boston, specializing in technology licensing. Prior to that, she was an assistant to Mayor Richard M. Daley in Chicago, where she developed policy in the areas of housing, aviation planning, personnel, and legislative affairs. Mrs. Nadon also has international experience. She was the director of local government programs for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Ukraine and served as an international observer for Ukraine’s first parliamentary elections.

Marionette Moore (B.A. University of the Philippines) joined the staff of the Rose Institute in February of 1997, assisting the Institute’s directorial staff and providing supervision of student research assistants. Working at the Rose Institute for more than 25 years, Mrs. Moore has acquired skills in publications, website management and remains a steady contact for students on and off campus. She lends support to the research needs of the Institute with her broad background in the area of survey research and knowledge of computerized data management and publication design.