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Faculty

Nicholas B. Miller

Associate Professor of History, Coordinator of History Program

Professional Profile

Nicholas B. Miller is a global historian whose regional specializations include Britain, Germany, Portugal, Hawai‘i, and Malaya in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His research explores themes at the intersection of cultural, intellectual, and social history, including the intellectual impact of cross-cultural encounters in the European Enlightenment; discourses of population, immigration, and the family in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century polities; the global history of the Age of Revolutions; the history of education; comparative studies of plantations and bonded labor beyond the Atlantic World; and the conceptual history of colonialism.

His books include John Millar and the Scottish Enlightenment: Family Life and World History (Voltaire Foundation, 2017),  Cameralism and the Enlightenment: Happiness, Governance, and Reform in Transnational Perspective (Routledge, 2020 with Ere Nokkala), and the forthcoming Plantation Knowledge: Agricultural Colonization, Exploitation, and Exchange since 1500 (State University of New York Press, with Ulrike Lindner).

During a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (awarded by the European Commission) tendered at the University of Cologne between 2021 and 2023, Miller researched the global travels and networks of Wilhelm Hillebrand, a German medic, botanist, and immigration commissioner for the Kingdom of Hawai‘i. 

Teaching

Courses taught

  • HIS 113: Topics in Modern World History
  • HIS 200: Historical Methods
  • HIS 302: The Age of Revolutions
  • HIS 311: The Enlightenment
  • HIS 340: History of Portugal
  • HIS 380: Britain and the World
  • HIS 403: Colonialism and Imperialism
  • HIS 440: Early Modern Empires
  • HIS 470: Senior Seminar in History
  • CDD 240: Study Abroad—Portugal: History and Culture
  • COR 171: Migration: Global & Historical Perspectives

Research

Education

Ph.D. (European Intellectual History and Global History) summa cum laude, University of Potsdam

M.St. (Early Modern History) with distinction, University of Oxford

B.A. (History), first-class honors, University of Durham

Research Interests

European history, intellectual history, social history, empire and colonialism, plantations, migration

More Information

Office Hours (On Campus)

  • In Fall 2025, Dr. Miller will be on an exchange at the University of Würzburg in Germany 

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