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Kerby Miller Professor B.A. Pomona College, 1966 Professor Kerby Miller teaches a three-course sequence on Irish history (ancient to 1850, 1850-1923, and 1900-present), as well as surveys of American history, upper-level courses on U.S. urban history, and seminars on U.S. social and immigration history. In 2006-07, however, Kerby will be on research leave from teaching. In 2006 he received major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the University of Missouri Research Council to work on a long-term project titled "Irish Religious Demography and Conflict, 1659-1926," a study of the relationships between population change and social, cultural, and political developments in Ireland, especially in Ulster, in collaboration with Professor Liam Kennedy of Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. For 2006-07 Kerby also received a grant from the University of Missouri Research Board for a second long-term project: a three-volume edited collection of letters, diaries, and memoirs written by Irishmen and -women who emigrated to America between 1815 and 1929. Finally, during 2006-07 Kerby will also complete work on a collection of essays, on Irish and Irish-American history, to be published by Field Day in Dublin, Ireland. Miller’s most recent scholarly book is Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), an 815-page study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic immigration to North America, based largely on letters and memoirs written by Scots-Irish and other immigrants. In 2004 Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan was awarded the James S. Donnelly Prize, for the best book in Irish or Irish-American history, by the American Conference on Irish Studies. In 2001 he and his wife, Patricia, published, for a general audience, an interactive book, Journey of Hope: The Story of Irish Immigration to America (San Francisco: Chronicle, 2001). Miller’s other books include: Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (New York, 1985); Irish Popular Culture, 1650-1850 (Dublin, 1998), co-edited with James S. Donnelly, Jr.; and Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America (Washington, D.C., 1994), co-authored with Paul Wagner and released with a PBS documentary film, “Out of Ireland,” that was based on Miller’s research. In addition, a drama titled "Journey of Hope," based on Miller's research, was performed in Newport, Rhode Island, and elsewhere on the East Coast from 1995. Since 1995 Professor Miller has published fourteen scholarly essays, in journals or in books, on Irish emigration and/or the evolution of Irish and Irish-American societies and identities. Among the most important of these are: "Forging the 'Protestant Way of Life': Class Conflict and the Origins of Unionist Hegemony in Early Nineteenth-Century Ulster," in Mark G. Spencer and David A. Wilson, eds., Transatlantic Perspectives on Ulster Presbyterianism: Politics, Religion, and Identity (Dublin, 2005); "Ulster Presbyterians and the 'Two Traditions' in Ireland and America," in Terry Brotherstone, et al., eds., These Fissured Isles: Varieties of British and Irish Identities (Edinburgh, 2005), and reprinted in J. J. Lee and Marion R. Casey, eds., Making the Irish American (New York, 2006); "Belfast's First Bomb, 28 February 1816: Class Conflict and the Origins of Ulster Unionist Hegenomy," Éire-Ireland, 39, nos. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 2004); "The New England and Federalist Origins of 'Scotch-Irish' Identity," in William Kelly and John R. Young, eds., Ulster and Scotland, 1600-2000: History, Language and Identity (Dublin, 2004); “In the Famine’s Shadow: An Irish Immigrant from West Kerry to South Dakota, 1881 1979,” in Margaret M. Mulrooney, ed., Fleeing the Famine: North America and Irish Refugees, 1845-1951 (Westport, Conn., 2003); "The Famine's Scars: William Murphy’s Ulster and American Odyssey," in Kevin Kenny, ed., New Directions in Irish-American History (Madison, Wisc., 2003); "‘Scotch-Irish Myths’ and ‘Irish’ Identities in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America," in Charles Fanning, ed., New Perspectives on the Irish Diaspora (Carbondale, Ill., 2000); "‘Scotch-Irish,’ ‘Black Irish,’ and ‘Real Irish’: Immigrants and Identities in the Old South," in Andrew Bielenberg, ed., The Irish Diaspora (London, 2000); "‘Revenge for Skibbereen’: Irish Emigration and the Meaning of the Great Famine," and "The Pauper and the Politician: A Tale of Two Immigrants and the Construction of Irish-American Society," in Arthur Gribben, ed., The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America (Amherst, Mass., 1999); "The Lost World of Andrew Johnson: Sectarianism, Social Conflict, and Cultural Change in Southern Ireland during the Pre-Famine Era," in Kerby Miller and J. S. Donnelly, Jr., eds., Irish Popular Culture, 1650 1850 (Dublin, 1998); and "For Love and Liberty: Irishwomen, Migration, and Domesticity in Ireland and America, 1815-1920," in Patrick O'Sullivan, ed., Irish Women and Irish Migration: Volume IV of The Irish Worldwide (Leicester, England, 1995). In addition, Kerby published fifteen entries in the Encyclopedia of the Irish in America (Michael Glazier, ed.; Notre Dame, Ind., 1999); and has three more in the Encyclopedia of Irish History & Culture (James S. Donnelly, ed.; New York, 2005). Kerby also has three scholarly articles in press, including: "Re-Imagining Irish Revisionism," in Andrew Wyndham, ed., Re-Imagining Ireland (Charlottesville, Va., 2005); "Re-imagining the Imaginary: A Challenge to Revisionist Mythologies," in Place and Memory in the New Ireland, vol. 1 of the publications of the European Federation of Associations and Conferences in Irish Studies (Trier, Germany, 2006); and "The Scots-Irish in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1780-1810: Searching for 'Irish' Freedom--Settling for 'Scotch-Irish' Respectability," co-authored with Peter Gilmore, in Warren Hofstra, ed., Searching for the Scots-Irish in Ulster and America (Dublin, 2006). In all, since 1980 Kerby has published or has in press over thirty major and minor articles and essays, not including encyclopedia entries and book reviews. Since 1995 Kerby has delivered ca. forty papers and invited lectures at venues that include: the Milwaukee Irish Festival and Summer School; the Irish-Australian Conference in Melbourne; the universities of Auckland and Victoria, in New Zealand; the Ulster-American History Symposium at Omagh and Derry, Northern Ireland; "Re Imagining Ireland,” an NEH-sponsored conference on Ireland and Globalization at the University of Virginia; the American Conference for Irish Studies; Glucksman Ireland House at New York University; the F. Kevin Simon Memorial Conference on History, Sayre School, Lexington, Ky.; the University of Toronto; Virginia Tech University; Emory University; the University of Kansas; the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame; the Irish Diaspora Symposium, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; the University of New Hampshire's International Seminar; the International Conference on Irish Emigration at University College, Cork; and the Parnell Summer School, Avondale, Co. Wicklow, Ireland. Since 1995 Kerby has served as an adviser, consultant, or referee for numerous institutions, including: the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Irish Higher Education Authority in Dublin; the “Re-Imagining Ireland” conference at the University of Virginia; the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the South Street Seaport Museum, and the Conservancy for Historic Battery Park, all in New York City; the Center for Irish Migration Studies, at Omagh in Northern Ireland; the Institute for the Study of Ulster Migrations, Societies, and Cultures, at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg; the U.S. Postal Service in Washington, D.C.; and three documentary films: "From the Shamrock Shore," on the Scots-Irish in Ulster and America, forthcoming; "The Irish Empire," on Irish emigration worldwide, for BBC, Irish, and Australian TV (1998); and "The Irish in America," a film for A&E Network (1997). At the University of Missouri, he served as an adviser for “Building Communication Processes Across Divided Societies” (an inter-disciplinary, international program, incl. Missouri, the University of Ulster, and the National University of Ireland at Galway); and as a member of the campus European Center Proposal Committee, the Irish Initiatives Committee, and the Peace Studies Faculty Committee, as well as one term as faculty adviser for the University of Missouri Men’s Soccer Club. In 2000-2003 Professor Miller was Middlebush Professor of History at the University of Missouri, and in 2002 he was Visiting Professor at Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, where he taught courses in Irish history and comparative Irish migration history. His national scholarly and teaching awards include appointment in 2002 as Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians; a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship at the University of Auckland, New Zealand (declined); the James S. Donnelly Prize (2004; mentioned above) for Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan; and the 1986 Merle Curti Award (Best Book in U.S. Social History) from the Organization of American Historians, and the 1986 Theodore Saloutos Award (Best Book in U.S. Immigration & Ethnic History) from the Immigration History Society, both for Emigrants and Exiles, which also was a finalist for the 1986 Pulitzer Prize in History. Miller's awards from the University of Missouri include: the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence (1997); two Greek Councils' Outstanding Teaching Awards (1997-98); the MU Panhellenic Council's Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year Award (1988); and the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Faculty Research (1987). Since the late 1990s he has received grants and fellowships from the University of Missouri and from the Irish American Cultural Institute.
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