Judith A. Miller

Judith A. Miller (Associate Professor, Department of History, Emory University) is the author of Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700-1860 (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and the coeditor of Taking Liberties: The Problems of a New Order in France, 1794-1804 (Manchester University Press, 2002) with Howard G. Brown; and Gender, War and Politics: The Wars of Revolution and Liberation – Transatlantic Comparisons, 1775 – 1820, edited by Karen Hagemann, Gisela Mettele, Jane Rendall, in co-operation with Katherine Aaslestad and Judith Miller, Palgrave-Macmillan Press (forthcoming, 2009). She is a recipient of Fulbright, ACLS, and NEH Fellowships, as well as a Bourse Chateaubriand. She won the Koren Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies (1993) for the best article written by a North American historian, the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize from the Economic History Association (1987); the Emory Williams Teaching Award, Emory University (2000); and the Millstone Interdisciplinary Paper Prize from the Western Society for French History (2008). She is a Chevalier in the French Ordre des Palmes Académiques. She received her doctorate from Duke University in French History, and her BA from the College of Wooster (Ohio). During 2007-2008, she was a senior fellow at the Emory University Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry: http://www.chi.emory.edu/.

She is a founding co-director of the Emory’s interdisciplinary European Studies project. http://www.ila.emory.edu/european_studies/

Her next book projects are "The Stoic Voice of the Late French Revolution, 1794-1815," and "The Interior Spaces of the Law: Subjectivity and Political Culture in France, 1780-1830."

Dr. Miller teaches undergraduate courses on European history that include: History 190 ("Jane Austen’s World; and “Novel Worlds: French History and Literature, 1800-2000"); History 241 (Topics in Eighteenth-Century Cultural History); History 308 ("Revolutionary France, 1750-1815"); and topics colloquia (History 487) on "Napoleon and the Arts;" "Music and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Europe;" and "Paradigms Lost: Eighteenth-Century French Cultural History."

She regularly teaches graduate courses on "Revolutionary France, 1750-1815" (History 508) and a seminar on "Interdisciplinary Methods in European Cultural History" (History 585).

Her former and present dissertation students include:

• Dwain Pruitt, "Nantes noir: Living Race in the City of Slavers." (Completed 2005)
• Jayme Feagin, "Sentimental Tools: Literary Narrative, Female Bodies, and Medicine in France, 1795-1850.” (Prospectus Defended and Approved: March 2003)
• Scott Gavorsky, "Ceding to the Circumstances: State Institutions, Civil Society and Running the Schools in Maine-et-Loire, 1825-1875." (Prospectus Defended and Approved: March 2004)
• Dana Irwin, “Revolutionary Histrionics: Theater, Violence and the Creation of Bourgeois Masculinity”(Prospectus Defended and Approved: October 2008)

She has served on dissertation committees of a number of students in Modern and Early Modern European History, as well as in Comparative Literature and French and Italian.

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