Kerby A. Miller
Visiting Faculty
Scholar in Residence
McMurran Hall 305
(757) 594-7567
kerby.miller@cnu.edu
Education
- Ph D in History, University of California, Berkeley
- MA in History, University of California, Berkeley
- BA in History, Pomona College
Teaching
Modern Irish history, 1660 to present, especially socioeconomic, cultural, emigration, and political history.
Irish-American history, 1607 to present, especially social and cultural history and Irish-American nationalism.
United States history, 1607 to present, with specialties in urban, immigration, and pre-1865 social history.
Research
Modern Irish history; the Irish diaspora and the Irish in America; and U.S. urban and immigration history.
Biography
Dr. Kerby A. Miller is Scholar in Residence in History at Christopher Newport University. After earning his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Miller spent most of his career as an endowed professor of history at the University of Missouri before retiring in 2015 and moving to Hampton Roads in 2023. He specializes in the history of Ireland and the Irish diaspora (immigration), and has received many national and international scholarly prizes and awards, including as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, a Fulbright fellowship, and the Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians, the top social history prize from the premier professional association for American historians. In particular, his book Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (Oxford University Press) is a landmark text in the field and a standard text in colleges and university classrooms and graduate seminars. Given his reputation among historians, he also has held appointments at New York University, Queen’s University of Belfast, and the University of Galway, which houses the Kerby Miller Collection of source material he has collected over decades. After obtaining emeritus status, Dr. Miller joined the Department of History at Christopher Newport, where he continues to give public lectures, meet with students, and work on his next book manuscript.
Selected Accomplishments
- Honorary Professorship of History, University of Galway. (2022)
- James S. Donnelly Prize, American Conference for Irish Studies. (2004)
- Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians. (2002)
- Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, University of Auckland, New Zealand. (1996)
- Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for History, Columbia University. (1986)
- Merle Curti Award, Organization of American Historians. (1986)
- Theodore Saloutos Award, Immigration History Society. (1986)
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Book, Scholarly-New
(2022). The Irish Religious Censuses of the 1760s: Catholics and Protestants in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission. -
Book, Scholarly-New
(2008). Ireland and Irish America: Culture, Class, and Transatlantic Migration, 1700-1929.. Dublin: Field Day; and Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. -
Book, Scholarly-New
(2003). Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675- 1815. New York: Oxford University Press. -
Book, Non-Scholarly-New
(2001). Journey of Hope: The Story of Irish Immigration to America. San Francisco: Chronicle. -
Book, Scholarly-New
(1998). Irish Popular Culture, 1650-1850. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. -
Book, Non-Scholarly-New
(1994). Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America. Washington, D.C.: Elliott and Clark. -
Book, Scholarly-New
(1985). Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Kerby Miller, "Research Grant," Sponsored by Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
- Kerby Miller, "Visiting Research Fellow," Sponsored by Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Kerby Miller, "Collaborative Research Grant," Sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities
- Kerby Miller, "Visiting Lecturer in History," Sponsored by Glucksman Ireland House, New York University