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Miller, Cecilia


Associate Professor of History
History Department
860.685.2387
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Co-Chair, College of Social Studies
College of Social Studies
860.685.2387

Tutor, College of Social Studies
College of Social Studies
860.685.2387

BA LeTourneau College
MPHIL University of St Andrews
DPHIL Oxford University

EMAIL:
cmiller@wesleyan.edu
PERSONAL HOME PAGE:
http://cmiller.faculty.wesleyan.edu
RECENT TALKS:
Miller has given many talks from her current book manuscript on Enlightenment and Political Fiction. These talks include "Renzo, the Failed Revolutionary, in Alessandro Manzoni's I promessi sposi," for Yale University's Department of Italian on October 12, 2006; "Candide in European Intellectual History: Uniforms, Monkeys, and Ravenous Women," for the Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Culture on November 16, 2006; "Don Quixote Reconsidered: Sancho Panza on Good Government and the Origins of the Market Economy," for New York University's Department of Economics Colloquium on Market Institutions and Processes on January 29, 2007; and "Matriarchy and Meritocracy in Gulliver's Travels: Plato's Republic as Swiftian Ur-Text," at the Harvard Humanities Seminar in 18th Century Studies at the Barker Humanities Center at Harvard University on April 4, 2008.
WESLEYAN PO BOX:
History Department
COURSES TAUGHT THIS SEMESTER:
CSS240 - 01
HIST215 - 01
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
European Intellectual History
See: http://www.europeanintellectualhistory.org
AWARDS WON:
Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Wesleyan University. 2002.

Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship.
FU Berlin, Germany. 1996-1997.

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.
Society of Fellows, Columbia University. 1989-1991.

OFFICE HOURS:
Fall 2009: Monday & Wednesday, 1:30-2:30