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Marla R. Miller

Director, Public History Program

Department of History

University of Massachusetts

Amherst, MA  01003

413-545-4256 (voice); 413-545-6137 (fax)

mmiller@history.umass.edu

                                          

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. U.S. History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997.

Specializations: U.S. Public History, U.S. Women's History, Social History of Colonial America; American Material Culture

Advisors: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall and John K. Nelson, co-advisors

Dissertation:"'My Daily Bread Depends Upon my Labor: Craftswomen, Community and the Marketplace in Rural New

                           England, 1740-1820."

Awards: Organization of American Historians' Lerner-Scott Prize for the Best Dissertationin Women's History.

                          Finalist, National Council of Graduate Schools Dissertation Prize.

Finalist, American Historical Association Alan Nevins Dissertation Prize

M.A., U.S. History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1991.

B.A.,  History of Culture, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1988

 

EMPLOYMENT:  Associate Professor, and Director, Public History Program, University of Massachusetts,

   Amherst, 1999-present

Awards: Chancellor’s Distinguished Academic Service Award, University of Massachusetts, 2003

College of Humanities and Fine Arts Distinguished Teaching Award, 2006-07

 

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS: 

The Needle’s Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution, (University of Massachusetts Press, August 2006).

Award: Millia Davenport Prize, Costume Society of America

Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts (University of Massachusetts Press, Spring 2009)

Betsy Ross and the Making of America (New York: Henry Holt, Spring 2010)

SELCTED RECENT ARTICLES:

“The Last Mantuamaker: Craft Tradition and Commercial Change in Boston, 1760-1840,” Early American Studies

(November 2006), 372-426.

"Labor and Liberty in the Age of Refinement: Gender, Class and the Built Environment," in Kenneth Breisch

and Alison K. Hoagland, ed.,  Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture X, (Knoxville: University of Tennessee

Press, 2005).

“Playing to Strength: Public History and Higher Education in the United States,” American Studies International

Vol XLII Nos 2 & 3 (June-October 2004), 174-212.

 

“Gender, Artisanry and Craft Tradition in Early New England: The View Through the Eye of a Needle,”

William and Mary Quarterly (October 2003): 743-776.

“Dressmaking as a Trade for Women: Rediscovering a Lost Art(isantry),”in Cynthia Amneus, ed., A Seperate Sphere: Cincinnati

Dressmakers, 1880-1920 (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Museum of Art, 2003): 9-15.

Awarded the Ruth Emery Book Prize for 2004 from The Victorian Society of America, presented to an outstanding book on the arts or

architecture created of the Victorian period.

 

 

SELECTED GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

Patrick Henry Fellowship, C.V. Starr for the American Experience, Washington College, Chestertown, Ma

H. F. DuPont Wintertur Research Fellowship, Spring 2007

Ruth Miller Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2004

Public Service Endowment Grant, UMass Office of Industry and Economic Development, 2003-04

Community Service Learning Faculty Fellowship, 2002-03

Faculty Research Grant, Office for Research Affairs, UMass-Amherst, 2001-02

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2001-2002

Faculty Research Grant, Office for Research Affairs, UMass-Amherst, 2000

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer [Research] Stipend, 1998

American Antiquarian Society Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship, 1994.

Five College Women's Studies Research Center Research Associateship, 1994.

Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities/Bay State Historical League Scholar-in-Residence Grant, 1994.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lectureship participant, 2004-09

Program Committee, National Council on Public History annual meeting, 2008-09

Program Co-chair, National Council on Public History annual meeting program, 2006-2008

Member of the national board of the National Council on Public History, 2006-09

Member of the editorial board of The Public Historian, 2001-2004

Member of the Standing Program Committee, Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, 2000-present

American Historical Society Herbert Feis Award Committee, 2006

Chair, Coordinating Council for Women in History Committee on Public History, 2000-2004

Member of the Program Committee, 2004 Organization of American Historians Meeting, Boston

Member of the Program Committee, 2004 NCPH/ASEH  meeting, Victoria, British Columbia