Joseph C. Miller (University of Virginia, Charlottesville)

Submitted:  Sun, March 16, 2008


Joseph C. Miller
T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor 
Department of History
Randall Hall
University of Virginia 
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4180 USA

phone:    434-924-6395 (office)
	  434-977-4132 (home) 
fax:      434-924-7891  
e-mail:   jcm7a@cms.mail.virginia.edu


Research/teaching interests:

Research and teaching interests: (a) historicizing views on the African 
past;  (b) extended to moving trans-regional historical thinking from its 
current bases in social-science epistemologies toward an epistemologically 
historical base;  (c) slaving on global scales as historical process;  
(d) integrating southern Atlantic history into the currently 
(north-centered) field of "Atlantic history"; (e) integrating these 
perspectives and processes into my (now background) original research 
field of lusophone central/southern Africa before the twentieth century.

Principal publications:

KINGS AND KINSMEN: Early Mbundu States in Angola (Oxford 1976); 
THE AFRICAN PAST SPEAKS (ed.) (Folkestone 1980);  WAY OF DEATH (Madison
1988); SLAVERY AND SLAVING:  A Worldwide Bibliography. (Corrected,
reformatted second edition, Armonk NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1999); SLAVERY AND
SLAVING IN WORLD HISTORY: A Bibliography - Vol. 2, 1992-96. Armonk NY: M.
E. Sharpe, 1999.  

Other publications:

History editor, New encyclopedia of Africa (with John Middleton, 
editor in chief)  5 v. (Detroit : Thomson/Gale, c2008).

Co-editor, with Gwyn Campbell and Suzanne Miers. Women and slavery. 
2 v. (Athens : Ohio University Press, c2007)

History editor, Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara. (John
Middleton, ed.) (New York: Macmillan Reference/Charles Scribners Sons,
1997).

Co-editor, Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery. (New York:
Macmillan, 1998).

"History and Africa/Africa and History." American Historical
Review. 104, 1 (1999), pp. 1-32. [Presidential address, American
Historical Association]

Editor, The Journal of African History (1990-1996)