Eric Miller

Disciplines/Field of Instruction

• Director, Honors Program
• History
• Humanities

Degrees Received

• Ph.D., American History, 2002, University of Delaware
• M.A., Christian Thought, 1994, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
• B.S. Bible, 1988, Lancaster Bible College

Courses Taught

• HUM 103 - Invitation to the Humanities, including First-Year Honors Program sections
• HIS 250-252 - three-course survey of U.S. History
• HIS 260 - History of Latin America
• HIS 371 -U.S. Cultural History
• HIS 401 - Green History and Thought
• HIS 421 - History in Place

Presentations/Publications

• Gave an address, called "The Instructed Imagination," at the annual meeting of the Front Porch Republic, University of Wisconsin, October 2023.

• “Still Singin’.” Front Porch Republic, 2 September 2019

• “When in Gotham . . .” Front Porch Republic, 3 December 2018
• Review of Carrie Tirado Bramen, American Niceness: A Cultural History. In Fides et Historia 50:2 (Summer/Fall 2018): 203-205.
• “Up With the People?” Comment (website), 12 May 2016.
• “Putting the Porch In Its Place: Christopher Lasch’s Republican Hope.” Paper presented for a panel on “The Life, Thought, and Legacy of Christopher Lasch at the annual conference of the Front Porch Republic, Inc., SUNY-Geneseo, 3 October 2015.
• “Progressivism and Evangelicalism in 21st Century Brazil.” Paper presented at the conference “Evangelicals in Brazil: Transformation and Conflict,” 7 August 2015, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
• Co-coordinator of the second meeting of the ongoing seminar “Evangelical Protestantism and Social Change in 21st Century Brazil.” Recife, Brazil, August 4-10, 2015. This was the central event of the first year of the collaborative project on Brazilian evangelicalism that is being funded through a CCCU Networking Grant, of which I am the project coordinator.
• “Just Another Naked King.” Front Porch Republic (website), 30 July 2015.
• “Wendell Berry and the Rise of the New Localism.” Presentation at the Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY, 14 May 2015.
• “Here’s the Biggest Reason the Liberal Arts Still Matter.” Harrisburg Patriot-News, 7 April 2015. 
• “Casting Call: Abraham Kuyper and the Drama of History.” Comment, October 2013. 
• “Technology and Human Renewal in Wendell Berry’s Port’s William.” The Cresset (September 2013).
• “So What Is the Historian's Vocation?”, Books & Culture (January-February 2012).
• WIC Lectures at Covenant College (February 2012). “Public Intellectuals and American Life”
• “The Republic of Baseball,” Books & Culture (March-April 2010).
• “Putting Worldview In Its Place.” Christianity Today (August 2009).
• “Shock and Awe.” Books and Culture (September-October 2006).
• “Why We Love Football.” Christianity Today (September 2007).
• “Elusive Unity.” Touchstone (April 2005)
• “Alone in the Academy.” First Things (February 2004).

Books

• Glimpses of Another Land: Political Hopes, Spiritual Longing (Cascade Books, 2012).
• Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch (Eerdmans, 2010).
• Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation, edited by John Fea, Jay Green, and Eric Miller (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010).
• Brazilian Evangelicalism in the 21st Century: An Inside and Outside Look. Co-edited with Ronald J. Morgan and featuring contributors from Brazil, England, Peru, and the United States. In the series Christianity and Renewal—Interdisciplinary Studies, edited by Amos Yong and Wolfgang Vondey (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

Awards & Distinctions Received

• Excellence in Teaching Award, 2002-2003, Geneva College
• Excellence in Scholarship Award, 2005-2006, Geneva College
• Member of the Executive Board of the Conference on Faith and History, 2006-2010.
• Member of the editorial board of Fides et Historia
• Member of the Board of Directors of Mars Hill Audio
• Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch received Christianity Today's 2011 book award in history/biograph
• Research Fellow, Kentucky Historical Society, 2015-2016
• Recipient of a Council of Christian Colleges and Universities Networking Grant for a collaborative endeavor titled “Evangelical Protestantism and Social Change in 21st Century Brazil,” of which I am the project director

Affiliations, e.g., membership in professional organizations, etc.

• Organization of American Historians
• Conference on Faith and History
• The Orion Society