Kerby A. Miller

Kerby A. Miller is an American historian, and Emeritus Professor at University of Missouri.[1]

Life

He graduated from Pomona College, and from University of California, Berkeley with an MA and Ph.D. in 1976. He is a visiting researcher at Queen's University Belfast.[2]

He has argued extensively that historian Richard J. Jensen's claims about anti-Irish sentiment in America were inaccurate.[3]

Awards

• 2002 Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians
• 2004 James S. Donnelly Prize for Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan
• 1986 Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians
• 1986 Theodore Saloutos Award
• 1986 Pulitzer Prize in History finalist

Works

Chapters

• Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia (1990). "Class, Culture, and Immigrant Group Identity in the United States". In Virginia Yans-McLaughlin (ed.). Immigration reconsidered: history, sociology, and politics. Oxford University Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-19-505510-8.
• Dermot Keogh; Michael H. Haltzel, eds. (1993). "Revising revisionism: comments and reflections". Northern Ireland and the politics of reconciliation. Cambridge University Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-521-45933-4.
• Charles Fanning, ed. (2000). ""Scotch-Irish" Myths and "Irish" Identities in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century America". New perspectives on the Irish diaspora. SIU Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-2344-9.
• Kerby A. Miller; Bruce D. Bolling; Liam Kennedy (2003). "The Famine's Scars: William Murphy's Ulster, and American Odyssey". In Kevin Kenny (ed.). New directions in Irish-American history. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-18714-9.
• Margaret M. Mulrooney, ed. (2003). "In the Famine's Shadow: An Irish Immigrant from West Kerry to South Dakota, 1881 - 1979". Fleeing the famine: North America and Irish refugees, 1845-1851. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-97670-5.

Bibliography

• Ireland and Irish America: Culture, Class, and Transatlantic Migration. Field Day Publications. 2008. ISBN 978-0-946755-39-4.
• Kerby A. Miller, ed. (2003). Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-515489-4.
• Kerby A. Miller; Patricia Mulholland Miller (2001). Journey of Hope: The Story of Irish Immigration to America. San Francisco: Chronicle. ISBN 978-0-8118-2783-6.
• James S. Donnelly; Kerby A. Miller, eds. (1998). Irish Popular Culture, 1650-1850. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-7165-2551-6.
• Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America (Washington, D.C., 1994), ISBN 978-1-880216-25-5
• Miller, Kerby A. (1985). Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-505187-2. (reprint 1988 ISBN 978-0-19-505187-2)

References

1. http://history.missouri.edu/people/miller.html
2. http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofHistoryandAnthropology/Staff/HonoraryEmeritus/DrKerbyAMiller/
3. Collins, Ben (August 1, 2015). "The Teen Who Exposed a Professor's Myth". The Daily Beast.

External links

• Kerby Miller Papers at Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University Special Collections