•   APPLY
    • Undergraduate
    • Adult Degree
    • Graduate
  •   GIVE
  •   REQUEST INFO
    • Undergraduate
    • Adult/Graduate
Geneva College Seal
Geneva College
 
  • About Geneva
    • Geneva Identity
    • Points of Excellence
    • Facts & Figures
    • Experience Geneva Video
    • Foundational Concepts
    • Academic Policies
    • Leadership
    • Strategic Plan
    • Geneva Blog
    • Calendar
  • Undergraduate
    • Majors & Programs
    • Costs, Scholarships & Financial Aid
    • Admissions
    • Visit Geneva
    • Accepted Students
    • International Students
    • Transfer Students
    • Early College
    • Online Course Login
    • Apply Now
  • Graduate
    • Classroom
    • Online
    • Costs and Financial Aid
    • Request Information
    • Online Course Login
  • Off-Site & Online Programs
    • Undergraduate (Adult) Online
    • Graduate Online
    • Geneva Pittsburgh Campus
    • Geneva Eastern Campus
    • Online Course Login
  • Student Life
    • Registrar
    • Student Development
    • Student Engagement (CSE)
    • Student Financial Services
    • Crossroads
    • McCartney Library
    • Campus Store
    • Campus Safety
    • myGeneva Login
  • Alumni
    • Giving
    • Alumni Home
    • Alumni Events
    • Alumni Directory
    • Alumni Update Form
    • Transcript Requests
    • Gold and White Referrals
    • Contact Alumni Relations
  • Athletics

Faculty & Staff

Menu
  • Home
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Meet Our Faculty
  • History, Political Science & Sociology
  • Eric Miller
History, Political Science & Sociology
  • Jeffrey S. Cole
  • Sean Doyle
  • Andrea Smidt-Sittema
  • Eric Miller
  • Frederick "Jay" Neikirk
  • Bradshaw Lee Frey
  • Wendy Van Wyhe
  • Henry Suhr

Eric Miller


alt-txt

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

Geneva College Honors Program Banner

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

Print


Geneva College

© Geneva College | All rights reserved

 Contact Us     Directions to Campus 

  • Geneva College Facebook
  • Geneva College Twitter
  • Geneva College YouTube Channel
  • Geneva College YouTube Channel
  • Geneva College LinkedIN
Giving to Geneva

Academics

  • Registrar
  • Academic Departments
  • Career Development
  • Student Success Center

FAITH

  • Campus Ministry & Discipleship
  • Service Opportunities
  • Geneva College Chapel

Admissions

  • Undergraduate
  • Adult Degree Programs (ADP)
  • Graduate Programs
  • Apply Now

Geneva ATHLETICS

  • Athletics Website
  • Watch Live
  • Club Sports
  • Intramural Sports

ALUMNI & FRIENDS

  • Alumni Relations
  • Alumni Class Notes
  • Alumni Events
  • Give

GENEVA COLLEGE

  • About Geneva
  • Foundational Concepts
  • Nondiscrimination Policy
  • Title IX
  • Employment
  • Attribution
  • About Geneva
    • Geneva Identity
    • Points of Excellence
    • Facts & Figures
    • Experience Geneva Video
    • Foundational Concepts
    • Academic Policies
    • Leadership
    • Strategic Plan
    • Geneva Blog
    • Calendar of Events
  • Undergraduate
    • Majors & Programs
    • Costs, Scholarships & Financial Aid
    • Admissions
    • Visit Geneva
    • Accepted Students
    • International Students
    • Transfer Students
    • Early College
    • Online Course Login
  • Graduate
    • Classroom
    • Online
    • Costs and Financial Aid
    • Request Information
    • Online Course Login
  • Off-Site & Online Programs
    • Undergraduate (Adult) Online
    • Graduate Online
    • Geneva Pittsburgh Campus
    • Geneva Eastern Campus
    • Online Course Login
  • Student Life
    • MyGeneva
    • Registrar
    • Student Development
    • Student Engagement (CSE)
    • Student Financial Services
    • Crossroads
    • McCartney Library
    • Campus Store
    • Campus Safety
  • Alumni
    • Giving
    • Alumni Home
    • Alumni Events
    • Alumni Directory
    • Alumni Update Form
    • Transcript Requests
    • Gold and White Referrals
    • Contact Alumni Relations
    • Homecoming 2019
  • Athletics
  • © Geneva College | Contact Us