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Ken Miller is an Associate Professor of History at Washington College specializing in colonial, revolutionary, and early national North American history with particular focus on prisoners of war during the American Revolution.
Dr. Miller earned his B.A. from the University of Hawaii (1995) and Ph.D. from the University of California (2006).
His research examines how British and German prisoners of war influenced American identity formation in revolutionary communities, particularly in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dr. Miller approaches the patriots' hosting of enemy prisoners as a window onto early American identity formation in the diverse wartime interior. His current research concerns an infamous murder case in revolutionary New England.
Dr. Miller's publication Dangerous Guests: Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities during the War for Independence (Cornell University Press, 2014) won the 2014 Book of the Year Award from the Journal of the American Revolution. His work demonstrates how the presence of thousands of enemy prisoners in American communities shaped revolutionary identity.
- 2014 Book of the Year Award, Journal of the American Revolution
- Fellowship from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
- Fellowship from American Antiquarian Society
- Fellowship from German Historical Institute
- Fellowship from Library Company of Philadelphia
- Fellowship from Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Fellowship from David Library of the American Revolution
At Washington College, Dr. Miller teaches History of the United States (1607-1865 and 1865 to present), Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century America, The Early Republic, Comparative Cultural Encounters, Colonial Latin America, Latin American Literature as History, Small Worlds of Early America, and Historical Method.
