Judith Miller

Judith A. Miller is an Associate Professor of History at Emory University, with a focus on French history encompassing eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European cultural, gender, economic, and legal developments. She received her B.A. with honors, Phi Beta Kappa, from the College of Wooster in 1978 and her Ph.D. in Modern European History from Duke University in 1987. Her research centers on the French Revolution, state regulation of grain markets, property restoration after the Terror, revolutionary violence, and the interplay of politics and performance. Miller commenced her academic career as Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville from 1987 to 1988, then joined Emory University as Assistant Professor in 1988, attaining Associate Professor status in 1997. She held a senior fellowship at the Emory Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry in 2007-2008, participated in the Emory-Augsburg Faculty Exchange in 2009-2010, and served as President of EDUCO in Paris, the study abroad consortium of Emory, Duke, Cornell, and Tulane Universities, from 2013 to 2014. As founding co-director of Emory's interdisciplinary European Studies Project, she promotes cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Miller's key publications include her monograph Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700-1860 (Cambridge University Press, 1998), which examines liberal economic reforms; co-edited collections Taking Liberties: Problems of a New Order in France, 1794-1804 (Manchester University Press, 2002) and Republics at War, 1776-1840: Revolutions, Conflicts and Geopolitics in Europe and the Atlantic World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); and articles such as Politics and Urban Provisioning Crises in France: Bakers, Parlements and Police, 1750-1793 (Journal of Modern History, 1992), awarded the Koren Prize by the Society for French Historical Studies. Honors include the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize from the Economic History Association (1987), Fulbright, ACLS, and NEH Fellowships, Bourse Chateaubriand, Millstone Interdisciplinary Paper Prize (2008), Crystal Apple Teaching Award (2013), Emory Williams Teaching Award (2000), and Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (2002). She teaches courses including Revolutionary France, Origins of Capitalism, Jane Austen's World, Music and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Europe, and History of Skiing and Snowsports, supervises graduate students, and engages publicly through opera consultations and innovative seminars like Fake News.

Professional Email: histjam@emory.edu