NAME



EDWARD H. MILLER

538 First Parish Road ~ Scituate, MA 02066

ehmiller1986@

617-962-1802

Education/Employment History

Ph.D., History, Boston College, 2013

M.A., History, Boston College, 2009

M.A., Political Science, American University, 1999

B.A., History, Magna Cum Laude, Providence College, 1997

2014-present: Assistant Teaching Professor, NU Global, College of Professional Studies, Northeastern University

2011-2014: Adjunct Professor, NU Global, College of Professional Studies, Northeastern

University

2007-2013: Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Boston College

1999-2006: Research Director (2001-2006), Policy Analyst (1999-2001), Committee on Public Service, Massachusetts House of Representatives, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

Developed extensive understanding of leadership and law-making process.

Managed daily operations of the Massachusetts state legislature’s busiest joint

committee.

Hired and supervised staff.

Drafted, analyzed, and impacted legislation including state and municipal retirement laws safeguarding thousands of public employees from layoffs and saving Massachusetts in excess of $250 million.

Planned committee hearings.

Coordinated meetings.

Briefed legislators and public officials.

Mentored analysts.

Wrote reports on health care, social security and public retirement policy.

1998-1999: Policy Analyst, Committee on Public Safety, Massachusetts House of Representatives, Boston, MA

1998: Legislative Intern, Office of Congressman William Delahunt, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.

Professional Development/Scholarship/Creative Activity

Publications

Books

Nut Country: Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy. University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Sugar Daddy: A Life of Robert Welch. Under contract with University of Chicago Press.

Refereed articles

“They Vote Only for the Spoils: Massachusetts Reformers, Suffrage Restriction, and the 1884 Civil Service Law.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 8:3 (July 2009): 341-363.

Book chapters

“Boston, Massachusetts, 1877-1896.” In Cities In American Political History, edited by

Richardson Dilworth, 311-317. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2012.

Non-refereed articles

“Heading Into Nut Country: Ted Dealey and JFK,” We’re History, , November 23, 2015.

“When Texas Fell to the Wingnuts: The Secret History of the Southern strategy, Modern Conservatism and the Lone Star State,” Salon, , November 1, 2015.

“Umbrella Man,” The Historical Society: A Blog Devoted to History For the Academy and Beyond, , November 22, 2013.

Reviews

Review of Kathryn Olmstead’s Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism in The Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 2 (November 2016): 216-217.

Review of Joseph T. Reiff’s Born of Conviction: White Methodists and Mississippi’s Closed Society in Journal of Southern History, forthcoming.

Creative Activity

Interviews

“Southern Strategy, Racism, and the Republican Party,” extended interview on Against the Grain, a syndicated radio program hosted by Sasha Lilly and based in San Francisco, November 7, 2016.

“The Far Right of Nut Country,” The Michelangelo Signorile Show, SiriusXM Progress 127, January 25, 2016.

“Entering Nut Country,” The Majority Report with Sam Seder, majority.fm, , November 3, 2015.

“Hong Kong Protests Have a Deep Political History,” All Things Considered, National Public Radio, , September 30, 2014.

Invited Lectures and Events (selected)

“Paranoid Style Redux,” lecture delivered at the Hingham Public Library, Hingham, MA, March 9, 2016.

“Black Gold Battles the Red Menace: The Cold War and American Oil,” lecture delivered at the Bourne Public Library, Bourne, MA, March 3, 2016.

“Principles of the Reactionary Right in the Lone Star State,” lecture delivered at the

Lydia Drake Library, Pembroke, Massachusetts, November 7, 2015.

“Rita Bass, Robert Morris, and the Limits of Moderate Conservatism in Dallas, Texas,”

lecture delivered at the University Club, Boston, Massachusetts, October 20, 2015.

“General Edwin Walker and the Far Right Flank of Conservatism,” lecture delivered at

the Harvard Coop, Cambridge, MA, October 1, 2015.

Academic Conferences (Presenter)

"Whistling Dixie: The Importance of Dallas Congressman Bruce Alger to the Southern

Strategy," paper to be presented at “Sun Belt Politics: The Rise of the New Right,” a conference held at the University of Texas at Arlington, April 16, 2016.

“The Metropolitan Origins of the Southern Strategy,” paper presented at Urban History Association Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 10, 2014.

“The Ultraconservative Republicans of Dallas, Texas,” paper presented at New England Historical Association Conference, Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts, April 26, 2014.

“The Moderate Republicans of Dallas, Texas,” paper presented at American Political History Graduate Conference, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, March 24, 2012.

“Speaking for Science: Racial Nativism and Scientific Revolutions in Progressive America,” presented by Dr. Michael Mezzano, comment, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, February 10, 2012.

“The Massachusetts Civil Service Law of 1884,” paper presented at Boston College History Department First Year Ph.D. Student Conference, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, April 2007.

Northeastern University Presentations and Workshops

“The Radical Right Past and Present: From Camelot to the Age of Trump,” guest lecture for Professor Daniel Urman’s course Current Law and Policy Debates, Doctorate in Law and Policy Program, College of Professional Studies, Northeastern University, November 20, 2016.

“The Southern Strategy and the Future of the Republican Party in the Age of Trump,” The Myra Kraft Open Classroom, the public forum for Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Boston, Massachusetts, November 16, 2016.

“Forrest Gump and the Culture Wars of the 1990s,” history and culture workshop hosted by American Classroom, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, September 16, 2016.

“How to Take Notes . . . Really Good Ones!,” American Classroom Orientation Academic Fair, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, September 1, 2016.

“A Delicate Balancing Act: Integrating ELL Techniques and Methods for International Students,” monthly language and culture workshop hosted by Global Student Success (GSS), Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, July 28, 2015.

“Senator Edward M. Brooke and Loneliness of the Black Republican Moderate,” monthly language and culture workshop hosted by Global Student Success (GSS), Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, March 25, 2015.

“The Hub: Immigration and Race in Nineteenth-Century Boston,” monthly language and

culture workshop hosted by Global Student Success, Northeastern University, Boston,

Massachusetts, November 7, 2014.

Interviews and Miscellaneous Media Appearances

Peter McDermott, “Political Atmosphere in JFK’s Time Was Just as Toxic as it is Now, ”

Irish Central,

time-was-just-as-toxic-as-it-is-now, August 4, 2016.

Jake Loel, “Trump, the Southern Vote, and UD,” The University News (University of Dallas Newspaper), , April 6, 2016.

Kate Tuttle, “Edward Miller on midcentury Dallas, American Conservatism,” The Story Behind the Book, Boston Globe, , March 5, 2016.

Susan Raab, “The Red Line Crossed: Chinese Artists Arrested for Pro-Democracy Support,” Nonprofit Quarterly, , October 21, 2014.

Rudolph Bush, “Q&A: Edward Miller, author of ‘Nut Country: Right-wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy,’” Sunday Points, Dallas Morning News, , September 14, 2015.

James T. Areddy, “Hong Kong Protests Mark Twist in History of Umbrella Symbolism,” Wall Street Journal, , October 1, 2014.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Dwight D. Eisenhower Research Travel Grant, Eisenhower Foundation, 2010

Research Stipend, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College, Summer 2010

University Fellowship, Boston College, 2006-2011

Dissertation Fellowship, Boston College, Summer 2011

Research Expense Grant, Graduate Student Association, Boston College, 2008

McKenna-Thompson Award for most outstanding intern in Rhode Island Internship Program, 1997

Senator Claiborne Pell Award for excellence in U.S. history, Providence College, 1997

Teaching

Courses

2014-present: Assistant Teaching Professor, NU Global, College of Professional Studies,

Northeastern University

Courses: Introduction to American History; Globalization and International Affairs;

Global Corporate Social Responsibility; Research Methods.

2011-2014: Adjunct Professor, NU Global, College of Professional Studies, Northeastern

University

Courses: State of the Field: Business and Social Science; State of the Field: Engineering

and Computer Science; State of the Field: Health and Life Science; Research

Methods for Graduate Students; Introduction to American History.

2007-2013: Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Boston College

Led weekly discussions and graded examinations for undergraduate students.

Courses: People and Nature; The Atlantic World; Europe and Modern World; Political

and Cultural History of Modern Europe; Eurasia in the World

Service

Department Service (American Classroom/Global Pathways)

Full-Time Faculty Search Committee, 2016-present

Graduate Curriculum Committee, 2016-present

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2014-2016 (Chair, 2014-2015)

Teaching and Technology Committee, 2014

College Service (College of Professional Studies, Northeastern University)

Faculty Academic Council (Parliamentarian), 2017-present

FAC Agenda Committee (2017-present)

Academic Standing Committee, 2015-present

Professional Standards Committee, 2016-present

Service to Discipline/Profession

Anonymous reviewer of book manuscript for University Press of Kansas (February 2016)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Historical Association

Southern Historical Association

Massachusetts Historical Society

Urban Historical Association

REFERENCES

Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Associate Professor of History, Boston College, cynthia.lyerly@bc.edu, (617) 552-3783

James O’Toole, Professor of History, Boston College, james.otoole@bc.edu, (617) 552-8456

Michelle Nickerson, Associate Professor of History, mnickerson@luc.edu, (773) 508-2595

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