Matthew Thomas Miller

Matthew Thomas Miller is an Assistant Professor of Persian Literature and Digital Humanities at the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland, College Park. He serves as Director of the Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities (PersDig@UMD) and co-PI for the Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI) and the Persian Manuscript Initiative (PMI). His research spans Sufism, digital humanities, and the history of sexuality in premodern Islamic contexts. He has secured major grants from Mellon Foundation, NEH, and NSF.

Research Interests:

• Sufi epistemology and affect theory
• Medieval Persian poetry and rogue lyric traditions
• Open-source Arabic/Persian OCR advancements
• Digital tools for manuscript studies
• Critical engagement with Orientalism

Grants/Awards:

• Lead on $2.6M+ in Mellon grants for OpenITI projects
• NEH HTR grant for Persian/Arabic manuscript transcription
• NSF support for machine learning in Islamic manuscript analysis

Labs/Teams:

• OpenITI multi-institutional initiative
• Roshan Institute digital humanities projects
• Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)