Judith A. Miller

Judith A. Miller (Associate Professor) 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 with Pierre Serna and Antonino De Francesco, Liaisons dangereuses: Guerra e Repubblica alla fine del XVIII secolo; Guerre et République à la fin du XVIIIe siècle (in progress).

During Fall semester 2011, she is on leave in Paris.  In Spring semester 2012, she will hold the Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel Fellowship at the Newberry Library (Chicago, IL).

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 (2002). 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. In 2009-2010, she was an Emory-Augsburg Faculty Exchange participant and taught in the Program for European Cultural History at the University of Augsburg. She was a founding co-director of the Emory University’s interdisciplinary European Studies Project.

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 "Music and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Europe;" and "The Arts of the Enlightenment."

She 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.” (Completed 2009)
• Scott Gavorsky, "Ceding to the Circumstances: State Institutions, Civil Society and Running the Schools in Maine-et-Loire, 1825-1875." (Completed 2009)
• 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 students in Modern and Early Modern European History, as well as in Comparative Literature and French and Italian. She welcomes such opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange.