 He was a Compton Visiting Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia (2010) and has been a Senior Fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia since 2007.In 2018, he became a contributing editor and columnist for the "Daily Memphian" and the political analyst for WMC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Memphis.Nelson has published more than twenty-five books on the presidency, elections, bureaucracy, public policy, southern politics, and liberal education.