Dr. Christopher L Miller
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Department of History
(956) 665- 3565
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1981
Major: History
BS, Lewis and Clark College, 1972
Major: History
EMPLOYMENT
Academic - Post-Secondary
Professor, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (September 2015)
Professional
Professor, University of Texas-Pan American (January 1, 2014 - August 31, 2015)
Associate Professor, University of Texas-Pan American (1988 - 2013)
Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Pan American (1985 - 1988)
Resident Fellow, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University (1984 - 1985)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Rutgers University (1981 - 1984)
Curriculum Developer, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (1980 - 1981)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Carol Berkin, Christopher Miller, Robert Cherny, and James Gormly. Making America: A History of
the United States. Boston: Wadsworth, 2015. (7th ed.).
Carol Berkin, Christopher Miller, Robert Cherny, James Gormly, Douglas Egerton, and Kelly
Woestman. Making America, Brief Edition. Boston: Wadsworth, 2014. (6th ed.).
Carol Berkin, Christopher Miller, Robert Cherny, and James Gormly. Making America: A History of
the United States. Boston: Wadsworth, 2012. (6th ed.).
Christopher Miller. History by Era: The Americas to 1620. Christopher L. Miller (Ed.) New York:
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2011.
www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/americas-1620
Carol Berkin, Christopher Miller, Robert Cherny, James Gormly, Douglas Egerton, and Kelly
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Woestman. Making America, Brief Edition. Boston: Wadsworth, 2011. (5th ed.).
Carol Berkin, Christopher Miller, Robert Cherny, and James Gormly. Making America: A History of
the United States. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008. (5th ed.).
Carol Berkin, Christopher Miller, Robert Cherny, and James Gormly. Making America: A History of
the United States. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. (4th ed.).
Carol Berkin, Christopher Miller, Robert Cherny, and James Gormly. Making The American
Constitution. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Carol Berkin, Christopher Miller, Robert Cherny, and James Gormly. Making America: A History of
the United States. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. (3rd ed.).
Christopher Miller. Prophetic Worlds: Indians and Whites on the Columbia Plateau. Seattle, WA:
University of Washington Press, 2003. (2nd ed.).
Carol Berkin, Christopher Miller, Robert Cherny, James Gormly, and Thomas Mainwaring. Making
America: A History of the United States, Brief Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
(2nd ed.).
Carol Berkin, Christopher Miller, Robert Cherny, and James Gormly. Making America: A History of
the United States. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. (2nd ed.).
Carol Berkin, Christopher Miller, Robert Cherny, and James Gormly. Making America: A History of
the United States. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995. (1st ed.).
Christopher Miller. Prophetic Worlds: Indians and Whites on the Columbia Plateau. New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1985. (1st ed.).
Christopher Miller, Russell Skowronek, and Roseann Bacha-Garza. Blue and Gray on the Rio
Grande. Texas A&M University Press,
Christopher Miller, Russell Skowronek, and Roseann Bacha-Garza. War and Peace on the Rio
Grande. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press,
Book Chapters
Russell Skowronek, Christopher Miller, "Creating the Rio Grande Valley Civil War Trail ." Extra
Studies in Rio Grande Valley History. Milo Kearney, Anthony Knopp, Antonio Zavaleta, and
Thomas Daniel Knight (Ed.) Brownsville 2016: vol. 14, 457-478..
Christopher Miller. "Samsun: Withstanding the Challenge of Being the Gateway to American
Anatolia." Geçmişten Günümüze Samsun/Canik ve Değerleri. Osman Köse (Ed.) Samsun: Canik
Belediyesi Kültür Yayinlari, 2015: 143-154.
Christopher Miller. "Prelude to Rivalry: The Frontier Foundations of Two Global Empires." The
Soviet Union and the United States: Rivals of the Twentieth-Century: Coexistence and Competition.
Eva-Marie Stolberg (Ed.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013: 11-32.
Christopher Miller and Tamer Balci. "Interdisciplinary Inquiry and the Gülen Gestalt." The Gülen
Hizmet Movement: Circumspect Activism in Faith Based Reform. Tamer Balcı and Christopher L.
Miller (Ed.) Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012: 233-250.
Christopher Miller "Introduction: The Gülen Hizmet Movement, a Cautionary Tale." The Gülen
Hizmet Movement: Circumspect Activism in Faith Based Reform. Tamer Balcı and Christopher L.
Miller (Ed.) Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012: 1-21.
Christopher Miller. "The Gülen Hizmet Movement and Secularization Theory: Explaining the
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Improbable." he Gülen Hizmet Movement: Circumspect Activism in Faith Based Reform. Tamer
Balcı and Christopher L. Miller (Ed.) Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012: 165-187.
Tamer Balci and Christopher Miller. "Introduction, The Gülen Hizmet Movement: A Cautionary
Tale." Gülen Hizmet Movement: Circumspect Activism in Faith-Based Reform. Tamer Balcı &
Christopher L. Miller (Ed.) Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012: 1-21.
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-g%C3%BClen-hizmet-movement-14
Christopher Miller. "Adopting the 'Other': A Peculiar U.S. Orientalism in the Response to the
Circassian War, 1838-1859." Christopher L. Miller (Ed.) History Studies, 2011: Special Issueth ed.,
189-204.
Christopher Miller. "Coyote's Game: Indian Casinos and the Indian Presence in Contemporary
America." American Indians in American History, 1870-2001. Sterling Evans (Ed.) New York, NY:
Praeger, 2001:
Christopher Miller and George Hamell. "A New Approach to Indian-white Contact: Colonial Trade
and Cultural Symbolism." American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers from European Contacts
to Indian Removal, 1500-1850. Peter C. Mancall, James H. Merell (Ed.) New York, NY: Routledge,
2000: 176-193.
Journal Articles
Christopher Miller and Russell Skowronek. Creating the Rio Grande Valley Civil War Trail.
Edinburg, Texas: Extra Studies in Rio Grande Valley History. 14, (2016): 457-478.
Christopher Miller. Marked Out by the Will of Heaven to Sway the Destinies of Half the Globe:‟
The Peculiar Imperialism of The United States And Russia. Christopher L. Miller (Ed.) History
Studies. 4, no. 3 (2012): 113-136.
Christopher Miller. Change and Crisis: North America on the Eve of the European Invasion. History
Now . 25, (2010) www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/americanindians/
Christopher Miller. Avast! How the US built a Navy, Sent in the Marines, and Faced Down the
Barbary Pirates. History Now . 20, (June 2009) www.historynow.org/06_2009/historian3.html.
Christopher Miller. Dancing with Coyote: Change and Continuity in Plateau Indian Culture.
Okanogan County Heritage. 44, (2006): 21-22.
Christopher Miller. Indian Patriotism: Warriors Versus Negotiators. American Indian Quarterly. 17,
(1993): 343-349.
Christopher Miller and George Hamell. A New Approach to Indian-white Contact: Colonial Trade
and Cultural Symbolism. Journal of American History. 73, (1986): 311-328.
Other
Christopher Miller. Blanca Tovias, Colonialism on the Prairies: Blackfoot Settlement and Cultural
Transformation, 1870-1920 (Portland, Or: Sussex Academic Press, 2011). Western Historical
Quarterly. 43, (2012): 512-514.
Tamer Balci and Christopher Miller. The Gülen Hizmet Movement: Circumspect Activism in Faith
Based Reform. Tamer Balcı and Christopher L. Miller (Ed.) Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.
(2012)
Tamer Balci and Christopher Miller. Gülen Hizmet Movement: Circumspect Activism in
Faith-Based Reform. Tamer Balcı & Christopher L. Miller (Ed.) Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing. (August 2012): 300.
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Christopher Miller. Gray H. Whaley, Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee: U.S. Empire and the
Transformation of an Indigenous World, 1792-1859 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 2010) and Andrew H. Fisher, Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity
by. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010). Ethnohistory. 58, (2011): 533-536.
Christopher Miller. Making America: A History of the United States. Carol Berkin, Christopher L.
Miller, Robert Cherny, James Gormly, and Douglas Egerton (Ed.) Boston: Wadsworth. no. Brief
Fifth Edition (2011)
Christopher Miller and Ali Arslan. Relationships of the USA and The Greater Middle East, Special .
Ali Arslan and Christopher L. Miller (Ed.) History Studies, International journal of History. no.
Special Issue (2011)
Christopher Miller. J. Diane Pearson, “The Nez Perces in the Indian Territory: Nimiipuu Survival,”
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008). Journal of American History. 96, (2009): 243-244.
Christopher Miller. Jack Jackson, Indian Agent: Peter Ellis Bean in Mexican Texas (College Station:
Texas A & M Press, 2005) . Journal of Southern History. 74, (2008): 439-440.
Christopher Miller. Lillian A. Ackerman, A Necessary Balance: Gender and Power among Indians
of te Columbia Plateau (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003). Western Historical
Quarterly. 36, (2005): 72-73.
Christopher Miller. Mary Jane Warde, George Washington Grayson and the Creek Nation,
1843-1920 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999). American Indian Quarterly. 29, (2005):
314-316.
Christopher Miller. Indian Life in the Pacific Northwest. Dictionary of American History. New
York, NY: Macmillan. (2001): s.v..
Christopher Miller. David Murray, Indian Giving: Economies of Power in Early Indian-White
Exchanges (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000). New England Quarterly. 73, (2000):
664-666.
Christopher Miller. David LaVere, Life Among the Texas Indians: The WPA Narratives (College
Station: Texas A. & M. U. Pr., 1998). New Mexico Historical Review. 74, (1999): 423-424.
Christopher Miller. Plateau Indian Life. Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth
Century. New York, NY: Macmillan. (1999): s.v..
Christopher Miller. Wilbur Sturtevant Nye, Bab Medicine and Good: Tales of the Kiowas (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1997). Journal of American History. 85, (1999): 1608-1609.
Christopher Miller. Howard L. Harrod, Becoming and Remaining a People: Native American
Religions on the Northern Plains (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995). American Indian
Quarterly. 22, (1998): 505-507.
Carol Berkin, Christopher Miller, Robert Cherny, James Gormly, and Thomas Mainwaring. Making
America: A History of the United States, Brief Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. no. 1
(1997)
Christopher Miller. Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown, John Slocum and the Indian Shaker Church
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996) and Norman J. Bender, Sheldon Jackson and
Presbyterianism on the Rocky Mountain Frontier, 1869-1880 (Albuquerque: University of New
Mexico Press, 1996). Western Historical Quarterly. 28, (1997): 428.
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Christopher Miller. Smohalla. Frederick Hoxie (Ed.) Encyclopedia of the American Indians. Boston,
MA: Houghton Mifflin. (1996): s.v..
Christopher Miller. Terrence O'Donnell, An Arrow in the Earth: General Joel Palmer and the Indians
of Oregon (Portland: Oregon Hist. Soc., 1991). Journal of American History. 81, (1994): 702.
Christopher Miller. Donald B. Smith, Sacred Feathers: The Reverend Peter Jones
(Kahkewaquonqbij) and the Mississauga Indians, (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska Pr., 1987). New Mexico
Historical Review. 65, (1990): 99.
Christopher Miller. Hana Samek, The Blackfoot Confederacy, 1880-1920: A Comparative Study of
Canadian and U.S. Indian Policy (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico Pr., 1987). American Historical
Review. 95, (1990): 624-625.
Christopher Miller. Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown, Dreamer-Prophets of the Columbia Plateau:
Smohalla and Skolaskin (Norman: U. of Oklahoma Pr., 1989). Pacific Historical Revie. 59, (1990):
560-561.
Christopher Miller. Howard L. Harrod, Renewing the World: Plains Indian Religion and Morality.
Western Historical Quarterly. 20, (1989): 354-355.
Christopher Miller. William G. McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic (Princeton:
Princeton U. Pr., 1987). New Mexico Historical Review. 64, (1989): 253-254.
Under Submission
Books
Christopher Miller, Russell Skowronek, and Roseann Bacha-Garza. War and Peace on the Rio
Grande. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press,
PRESENTATIONS
Christopher Miller. "Pre-Colonial NGOs: American Cultural Hegemony and Protestant Missions in
the Greater Middle East," International Symposium on Middle East Relations, ISMER, Edinburg,
Texas. (September 6, 2016)
Christopher Miller. "The Role of Urban Spaces in the Rise of Bulgarian National Consciousness: A
Theoretical Perspective," IV International Symposium on Balkan History Studies, International
Symposium of Balkan History Studies Committee, Sarajevo, Bosnia/Herzegovina. (June 2, 2016)
Christopher Miller. "Evangelical Print Culture and the Global Projection of Developmental
Idealism," NETSOL INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, NEW TRENDS IN SOCIAL AND
LIBERAL SCIENCES, Milan, Italy. (April 29, 2016)
Christopher Miller and Russell Skowronek. "Rio Grande Valley Civil War Trail," Annual Meeting,
Texas Historical Association, Irving, Texas. (March 3, 2016)
Christopher Miller. "Building the Rio Grande Valley Civil War Trail," Annual Meeting, Texas
Two-Year College Teachers Association, Houston, Texas. (February 26, 2016)
Christopher Miller. "African American Soldiers in Texas During the Civil War and Reconstruction,"
US Department of Veterans Affairs, Houston, Texas. (February 25, 2016)
Christopher Miller. "Closing Remarks," III International Symposium on Balkan History Studies,
International Symposium of Balkan History Studies Committee, Bucharest, Romania. (April 24,
2015)
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Christopher Miller. "American Missionaries and the Formalization of Bulgarian Nationalism,," III
International Symposium on Balkan History Studies, International Symposium of Balkan History
Studies Committee, Bucharest, Romania. (April 23, 2015)
Christopher Miller. "The Rio Grande Valley Civil War Trail," Monthly Meeting, Nuevo Santander
Genealogical Society, Zapata, Texas. (January 10, 2015)
Christopher Miller. "Launching a Rio Grande Valley Civil War Trail." Community Organizing
Meeting for the Rio Grande Valley Civil War Project, University of Texas--Pan American, McAllen
Teaching Center. (2014)
Christopher Miller. "The Ideological Origins of US Orientalism as an Antebellum Phenomenon,"
Annual Meeting, Society for Historians of the Early American, Society for Historians of the Early
American, Philadelphia. (July 2014)
Christopher Miller. "Russia's Frontier Past and Putin's Cowboy Present," Nationalism and Empire,
University of Texas Pan-American, (March 2014)
Christopher Miller. "The Role of Missionaries in the Construction of American Orientalism," First
Turkish-American Relations Congress, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey. (2013)
Christopher Miller. "Samsun: The Gateway to American Anatolia," Third International
Canik/Samsun Conference, Canik/Samsun Municipality, Samsun, Turkey. (2013)
Christopher Miller. "Framing the Arab Spring in the US: Islamophobia, Israelifilia, and the Debate
over Democracy”," Arab Spring, University of Texas Pan-American, (April 2012)
Christopher Miller. "'We will feel for those who are fighting for their lives and their freedom‟:
Anti-imperialism and American Press Coverage of the “Circassian War”, 1838-1859." Annual
Meeting, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, (July 16, 2009)
Christopher Miller. "The Native American Renaissance in Contemporary America: Casino Gambling
and Cultural evitalization," American Center and Library, Moscow, Russian Federation. (April 2007)
Christopher Miller. "Material Culture and Middle-Class Formation in Antebellum America," Annual
Nikolay V. Sivachev Lecture, Moscow State University, Russian Federation. (March 2007)
Christopher Miller. "Prophecy on the Columbia Plateau." Okanogan Historical Society Summer
Lectureship Series, (2006)
Christopher Miller. "Appropriating Identities: Transformation and Cultural Continuity in Plateau
Indian Societies," The Palúus: Honoring A People and Their Land, Plateau Center for American
Indian Studies-Washington State University, Pullman, WA. (October 4, 2006)
Christopher Miller. "Be Creative, Be Effective, Obey the Law: Pick Two; Online Teaching and the
Enigma of Intellectual Property Law." Interactive Technology Distance Education Conference,
(2002)
Christopher Miller. "Rethinking the Survey Course for the Internet: The University of Texas
Experience." American Historical Association, Annual Conference, (2001)
Christopher Miller. "'I thought I was doing right:' Censured Behavior and Gender Construction for
Women in Antebellum Christian Missions." Organization of American Historians, Annual
Conference, (2001)
Christopher Miller. "Writing the West into U.S. History Textbooks: A Roundtable." Western History
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Association, Annual Conference, (2000)
Christopher Miller. "American Indians in History Textbooks," American Indian Civics and
Contemporary Textbooks: A Critical Survey. American Indian Civics in Today's Classrooms, Center
for Indian Community Development-Humboldt State University, Humboldt State University. (1999)
Christopher Miller. "Beyond Prophetic Worlds: The Sacred and the Historical in the Experiences of
Indians and Non-Indians," American Indian Civics in Today's Classrooms, Center for Indian
Community Development-Humboldt State University, Humboldt State University. (1999)
Christopher Miller. "Supreme Court Decisions and Indian Sovereignty Issues," American Indian
Civics in Today's Classrooms, Center for Indian Community Development-Humboldt State
University, Humboldt State University. (1999)
Christopher Miller. "Indian Casinos and the Problems of Sovereignty and Identity in Contemporary
America," Center for Indian Community Development-Humboldt State University, Humboldt State
University. (1998)
Christopher Miller. "The Art of Persuasion: Religious Tract Illustrations and the Rise of Bourgeois
Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century America," Annual Meeting, Pacific Coast Branch American
Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch American Historical Association, (1997)
TEACHING
Courses Taught
Am Eras Pre-Civil War
American Heritage I
American Legal History
Atlantic Amer 1763-1814
Dir Readings-Atlantic America
Direct Readings US Hist
Formative per Am Nat
Hist Am Rel Traditions
Hist of Am Relig Trad
Historiography and Methods
History of Ideas
Histrgrphy & his Meth
Research Practicum
Rise of American Nation
Sp Topics in US History
Special Topics in US History
Topic:Hist Am Rel Traditions
U.S. History I
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U.S. History I
Directed Student Learning
Master's Thesis Committee Chair. Miriam Cepeda, , Department of History. (September 2014)
SERVICE
Department Service
Committee Member, Graduate Education. (September 1, 2015 - August 31, 2016)
Committee Chair, History Outreach Committee. (September 1, 2015 - August 31, 2016)
Committee Chair, History Tenure & Promotion. (September 1, 2015 - August 31, 2016)
College Service
Committee Member, College of Liberal Arts Tenure & Promotion. (September 1, 2015 - August 31,
2016)
University Service
Program Coordinator, Community Historical Archaeology Program with Schools. (September 1,
2015 - August 31, 2016)
Professional Service
Editor, Journal Editor , International Journal of Ottoman Heritage , Burdur . (September 2015)
Conference-Related , International Symposium on Middle East Relations , Edinburg , (September
2015)
Editor, Journal Editor , New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences , Edinburg , (September 2015)
Conference-Related , International Symposium on Balkan History Studies , Burdur . (September
2014)
Editor, Journal Editor , History Studies International Journal of History , Edinburg , (September
2012)
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