Ian M. Miller

Ian M. Miller is an Associate Professor of History at St. John's University, affiliated with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He specializes in East Asian environmental history, world history, and digital humanities. His research explores the interplay between ideas, institutions, and environments in southern and central China. Miller holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, alongside an M.A. and B.A. from Harvard and Swarthmore College, respectively.

Education:

• Ph.D. in History, Harvard University
• M.A. in History, Harvard University
• B.A. in History, Swarthmore College

His publications include Fir and Empire (2020) and The Cultivated Forest (2022). He has held fellowships at Yale University's Center for Agrarian Studies, the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Miller's current project, Ancestral Shade: Kinship and Ecology in Southern China, investigates family institutions and village environments.

His teaching focuses on environmental history, digital methods, and world history. Though no grants or advising details are explicitly listed, his work emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to historical inquiry.