Eric Miller

Office Phone: 724-847-6634
emiller@geneva.edu

• History
• Humanities

Degrees Received

• Ph.D., American History, 2002, University of Delaware
• M.A., Christian Thought, 1994, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
• B.S. Bible, 1988, Lancaster Bible College

Courses Taught

• HUM 103 - Invitation to the Humanities
• HIS 250-252 - three-course survey of U.S. History
• HIS 260 - History of Latin America
• HIS 371 - U.S. Cultural History
• HIS 401 - America in the 1960s and 1970s
• HIS 421 - Green History and Thought

Presentations/Publications

• “Pilgrim to an Unknown Land: Christopher Lasch’s Journey.” Chapter in Figures In the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past, ed. Wilfred McClay. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.
• “Shock and Awe.” Books and Culture (September-October 2006). http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2006/005/9.22.html
• “Why We Love Football.” Christianity Today (September 2007). http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/september/18.26.html
• “Unreality TV.” Christianity Today (February 2006) http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/february/39.98.html
• “Elusive Unity.” Touchstone (April 2005) http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=18-03-012-v
• “Alone in the Academy.” First Things (February 2004). http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=299

Current Projects

• I'm currently completing a biography of the American historian and social critic Christopher Lasch (1932-1994). 
• I'm co-editing a volume of essays with the working title, Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation

Awards & Distinctions Received

• Excellence in Teaching Award, 2002-2003, Geneva College
• Excellence in Scholarship Award, 2005-2006, Geneva College
• Kohler Fellow, the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society, 2002, 2007. http://profam.org/Default.htm
• Member of the Executive Board of the Conference on Faith and History, 2006-present. http://www.huntington.edu/cfh/

Affiliations, e.g., membership in professional organizations, etc.

• Organization of American Historians
• Conference on Faith and History
• The Orion Society