Peter N. Miller

Peter N. Miller(born December 13, 1964) is an American historian who is President of theAmerican Academy in Rome.He was a 1998MacArthur Fellow.^[1]Much of his scholarship has centered on theintellectualandcultural historyofearly modern Europe,including the practices ofantiquarianismwithin wider scholarly erudition; and he is a particular authority on the thought and influence of the French savant,Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc(1580–1637).

From 1998 to 2001, he was an assistant professor at theUniversity of Maryland, College Park.From 2008 to 2023, he was dean ofBard College'sGraduate Center.^[2]

He attended theRamaz School,a Modern Orthodox Jewish day school in New York City. He earned his bachelor's degreemagna cum laudefromHarvard College,his master's fromHarvard Universityand his PhD at theUniversity of Cambridge.^[2]

Works

Sovereignty and Obligation in Republican England: political thought in the engagement controversy,Harvard University, 1986
From Community to Individual Rights: English political thought and imperial crisis 1750–1776,PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990
Defining the Common Good: Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain.Cambridge University Press. 1994.ISBN 978-0-521-61712-3.
Peiresc's Europe: learning and virtue in the seventeenth century.Yale University Press. 2000.ISBN 978-0-300-08252-4.
Peiresc's Orient: antiquarianism as cultural history in the seventeenth century.Farnham: Ashgate. 2012.ISBN 978-1-4094-3298-2.
Peiresc's Mediterranean World.Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2015.ISBN 9780674744066.
History and Its Objects: antiquarianism and material culture since 1500.Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2017.ISBN 9780801453700.

Miller, Peter N., ed. (2007).Momigliano and Antiquarianism: foundations of the modern cultural sciences.University of Toronto Press.ISBN 978-0-8020-9207-6.
Miller, Peter N.; Louis, François, eds. (2012).Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe and China, 1500–1800.Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.ISBN 9780472118182.

^"Peter N. Miller".MacArthur Foundation.Retrieved8 February2019.
^^a ^b"Degree Programs - Faculty - Peter N. Miller".Archived fromthe originalon 2011-11-12.Retrieved2011-11-27.

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