Faculty & Staff

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

Disciplines/Field of Instruction

• Director, Honors Program
• 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, including First-Year Honors Program sections
• HIS 250-252 - three-course survey of U.S. History
• HIS 260 - History of Latin America
• HIS 371 -U.S. Cultural History
• HIS 401 - Green History and Thought
• HIS 421 - History in Place

Presentations/Publications

• “Up With the People?” Comment (website), 12 May 2016.
• “Putting the Porch In Its Place: Christopher Lasch’s Republican Hope.” Paper presented for a panel on “The Life, Thought, and Legacy of Christopher Lasch at the annual conference of the Front Porch Republic, Inc., SUNY-Geneseo, 3 October 2015.
• “Progressivism and Evangelicalism in 21st Century Brazil.” Paper presented at the conference “Evangelicals in Brazil: Transformation and Conflict,” 7 August 2015, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
• Co-coordinator of the second meeting of the ongoing seminar “Evangelical Protestantism and Social Change in 21st Century Brazil.” Recife, Brazil, August 4-10, 2015. This was the central event of the first year of the collaborative project on Brazilian evangelicalism that is being funded through a CCCU Networking Grant, of which I am the project coordinator.
• “Just Another Naked King.” Front Porch Republic (website), 30 July 2015.
• “Wendell Berry and the Rise of the New Localism.” Presentation at the Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY, 14 May 2015.
• "Here’s the Biggest Reason the Liberal Arts Still Matter.” Harrisburg Patriot-News, 7 April 2015. http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2015/04/heres_the_biggest_reason_liber.html 
• "Casting Call: Abraham Kuyper and the Drama of History.” Comment, October 2013. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/4065/casting-call-abraham-kuyper-and-the-drama-of-history/ 
• Technology and Human Renewal in Wendell Berry’s Port’s William.” The Cresset (September 2013). http://thecresset.org/2013/Michaelmas/Miller_M2013.html 
• "So What Is the Historian's Vocation?" Books & Culture (January-February 2012). http://www.booksandculture.com/articles/2012/janfeb/historiansvocation.html
• WIC Lectures at Covenant College (February 2012). "Public Intellectuals and American Life"
• "The Republic of Baseball," Books & Culture (March-April 2010). http://www.booksandculture.com/site/utilities/print.html?id=86929
• "Putting Worldview In Its Place." Christianity Today (August 2009). http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/august/28.55.html?start=1
• “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
• “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

Books

• Glimpses of Another Land: Political Hopes, Spiritual Longing (Cascade Books, 2012). http://wipfandstock.com/store/Glimpses_of_Another_Land_Political_Hopes_Spiritual_Longing_Essays
• Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch (Eerdmans, 2010). http://www.eerdmans.com/shop/product.asp?p_key=9780802817693.
• Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation, edited by John Fea, Jay Green, and Eric Miller (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010). http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P01410

Awards & Distinctions Received

• Excellence in Teaching Award, 2002-2003, Geneva College
• Excellence in Scholarship Award, 2005-2006, Geneva College
• Member of the Executive Board of the Conference on Faith and History, 2006-2010. http://www.huntington.edu/cfh/default.htm
• Member of the editorial board of Fides et Historia
• Member of the Board of Directors of Mars Hill Audio
• Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch received Christianity Today's 2011 book award in history/biograph
• Research Fellow, Kentucky Historical Society, 2015-2016
• Recipient of a Council of Christian Colleges and Universities Networking Grant for a collaborative endeavor titled “Evangelical Protestantism and Social Change in 21st Century Brazil,” of which I am the project director

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

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