CURRICULUM VITAE Judith A. Miller Department

CURRICULUM VITAE
Judith A. Miller
Department of History
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
(404) 727-6564
email: [email protected]
FAX (404) 727-4959
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Associate Professor, Department of History, Emory University, 1997-Present
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Emory University, 1988-1997
Assistant Professor, Department of History, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
1987-1988
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Duke University, History: Modern European History;
Minor Field in French Literature
B.A., The College of Wooster: History and French
Graduation with Honors, Phi Beta Kappa
TEACHING FIELDS: Early Modern and Modern French History, European Social, Cultural and
Economic History
BOOK:
Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700-1860, Cambridge
University Press, November, 1998.
CO-EDITED PUBLICATIONS:
European History Quarterly, Special Issue, “Gender, War and the Nation in the Period of
the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars - European Comparisons,” 37 (October 2007).
(Guest co-editor with Karen Hagemann and Katherine Aaslestad).
Taking Liberties: The Problems of a New Order in France, 1794-1804, co-edited with
Howard G. Brown, Manchester University Press, 2002.
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PRESENT PROJECTS:
“The Stoic Voice of the Late French Revolution, 1794-1815” (Second Book
project)
“The Interior Spaces of the Law: Subjectivity, Law and Political Culture in France, 17801830” (Third Book project.)
Liaisons dangereuses: Guerra e Repubblica alla fine del XVIII secolo; Guerre et République
à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, conference volume, co-edited with Pierre Serna and Antonino De
Francesco (in progress).
ACADEMIC PRIZES AND RECOGNITION:
Millstone Prize, Western Society for French History, 2008 (awarded for the best interdisciplinary
paper presented at the annual conference)
French Government, Chevalier, Ordre des Palmes Académiques, 2002
William H. Koren Prize, 1992, given for the best article written by a North American, The Society
for French Historical Studies
Alexander Gerschenkron Dissertation Prize, The Economic History Association, 1987
Phi Beta Kappa, 1978
TEACHING RECOGNITION:
The Emory Williams Teaching Award, Emory University, 2000
ARTICLES:
“Des contrats sous tension : rétablir la propriété après la terreur” (“Contracts under Pressure:
Property Recovery after the Terror in France”), Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française,
352 (April-June 2008): 241-262.
“Introduction,” to the Special Issue of European History Quarterly, “Gender, War and the
Nation in the Period of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars – European Comparisons,” 37
(October 2007): 501-506. (Guest co-editor of the issue).
“A Question of Interests: The State and Family Law,” Selected Papers of the 2006
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era. (2008).
“Commerce des céréales et problèmes des subsistances à la fin du XVIIIe siècle,” in Martine Lapied
and Christine Peyrard, La Révolution française au carrefour des recherches (Aix-en-Provence :
Publications de l’Université de Provence, 2003).
“The Aftermath of the Assignat: Plaintiffs in the Age of Property, 1794-1804,” in Taking
Liberties (co-edited collection, above).
Howard G. Brown and Judith A. Miller, “New Paths from the Terror to the Empire: An
Historiographical Introduction,” in Taking Liberties (co-edited collection, above).
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“Grain Trade” for The Oxford University Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, Lynn Hunt,
ed., Oxford University Press, 2002.
“Economic Ideologies, 1750-1800: The Creation of the Modern Political Economy?”
French Historical Studies, 23(3) (2000): 497-511.
“Politics and Urban Provisioning Crises in France: Bakers, Parlements and Police, 1750-1793,
The Journal of Modern History 64 (June 1992): 227-262. Koren Prize article.
“Les marchés céréaliers à la veille de la Révolution: le modèle de l'économie pragmatique,” Actes
du Colloque, La Révolution française et les processus de socialisation de l'homme moderne,
1989.
“The Pragmatic Economy: Liberal Reforms and the Grain Trade in Upper Normandy,
1750-1789,” Dissertation Summary, The Journal of Economic History, June 1988.
TRANSLATION:
Introduction and selections from Bertrand Roehner, Sylvie Drame, Christian Gonfalone and Judith
Miller, Un siècle de commerce du blé en France, 1825-1913: Les fluctuations du champ des prix
(Paris: Economica, 1991).
FELLOWSHIPS:
Emory University, Senior Fellowship, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, 2007-2008
University Research Committee Award, Emory University, Spring 2004
International Research Award, Emory University, Summer 2001
University Research Committee Award, Emory University, Spring 1992
Arthur Cole Grant-in-Aid, Economic History Association, Spring 1992
American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid, Spring 1992
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1988-1989
American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the
Ph.D., 1988-1989 (declined)
Bourse Chateaubriand, French Government Fellowship, 1983-1984
James B. Duke International Studies Award, 1983-1984
Fulbright Full Fellowship, 1983-1984 (declined)
DISSERTATION:
“The Pragmatic Economy: Liberal Reforms and the Grain Trade in Upper Normandy,
1750-1789” Director: Dr. William Reddy, Duke University, 1987
PAPERS:
“The Nominal Value of Love: Hyperinflation, Debt and Melodrama in the Late French
Revolution,” Invited Paper, University of Amsterdam, May 2010.
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“The Stoic Voice of the Late French Revolution, 1794-1799,” Invited Paper, Universität Augsburg,
January 2010.
“La masculinité à l’antique : le discours républicain de l’expansion militaire,” at Liaisons
dangereuses: Guerra e Repubblica alla fine del XVII secolo; Guerre et République à la fin
du XVIIIe siècle, May 2009, Milan, Italy.
“La Voix stoïque du Directoire: Terreur, répression et la maitrise de soi en France, 17941799, ”at “Autour des Révolutions. Culture et Politique (1760 - 1830),” May 2008,
Université de Paris-I (Sorbonne).
“Des contrats sous tension : rétablir la propriété après la terreur” at “Capitalism
and Markets, XVIIIe-XIXe Centuries,” May 2008, Ecole Normale Supérieure, EHESS
and CNRS, Paris, May 2008.
“After Sentiment: The Stoic ‘Real’ of the Directory,” Western Society for French History,
November 2007, Albuquerque, NM. (Millstone Prize Paper, 2008)
“The Stoic Self of the Directory: Judgment, Fear and the Political “Real” in the late
French Revolution, 1794-1799,” Stoicism and the Self Conference, Emory University
Department of Philosophy, September 2007.
“Contracts under Pressure: Property Recovery after the Terror in France,” Emory University
European Studies Seminar, April 2007.
“The Stoic Moment of the Law: Terror, Judgment and the Political ‘Real in France,”
1794-1799,”American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2007, Atlanta, GA.
“The Nominal Value of Love: Hyperinflation, Debt and Melodrama in the Late French
Revolution,” Society for French Historical Studies, March 2007.
“The Stoic Voice of the Directory: Terror, Law and the Political Culture of the Late French
Revolution,” Emory University, Department of History, Lockmiller Seminar, September 2006.
“The Interior Spaces of the Law: Legal Subjectivity and Criminal Law in France, 17801810,” Society for French History, July 2006, University of Sussex.
“The Interior Spaces of the Law: Legal Subjectivity and Criminal Law in France, 17801810,” Society for French Historical Studies, April 2006, University of Illinois, Urbana
Champaign.
“Rescuing the Law: Legal Discourse after the Terror, 1795-1815,” The Society for French
Historical Studies, Paris, France, June, 2004.
“The Sentimental Seller: The Problem of Property in the Age of Passion, 1794-1815,”
invited paper for “The Invasion of Britain: 1793-1815/L'Invasion de la Grande
Bretagne: 1793-1815,” Oxford University, June, 2003.
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“Commerce des céréales et problèmes des subsistances à la fin du XVIIIe siècle,” invited
paper for the October, 2001 conference at the Université d’Aix-en-Provence,
“Révolution française: au carrefour des recherches.”
“The Aftermath of the Assignat: Plaintiffs and Property in the French Post-Revolution,”
Halle Institute-CEU Budapest conference, "Securing Rights in an Integrated Europe,”
Budapest, May, 2000. (Available on the Institute’s website.)
“The Aftermath of the Assignat: Property in the French Post-Revolution,” Indiana University,
Economic History Workshop, April, 2000.
“Les équivoques de la régulation du marché des subsistances: problèmes généraux
et pratiques normandes,” and “Le marché des subsistances au XVIIIe: des politiques et
des enjeux généraux aux pratiques normandes.” Two sessions at the Université de
Rouen, March, 2000.
“Legatees and Legacies: Plaintiffs and Property in the French Post-Revolution,” “The
Impossible Settlement: Problems of a New Order in Post- Revolutionary France,”
Emory University, November, 1999.
“Where Theory Met Practice: The Play of Free Trade in the Marketplace, 17501830,” British Society for French Historical Studies (Edinburgh, March, 1999).
“Simulated Sales: State Intervention and the Creation of Free Trade in Grain in
France, 1750-1830,” The American Historical Association, January, 1998.
“The ‘Stealth State:’ Shaping Free Trade in France,” The Society for French Historical
Studies, March, 1996.
“The ‘Stealth State:’ Supplying Cities in Early Nineteenth-Century France,” Workshop,
“Institutions and Economic Performance in the Past,” Institute of Economics, University of
Copenhagen (Denmark), September, 1995.
“Municipal Mayhem: The Breakdown of Local Authority under the Directory,”
The Society for French Historical Studies, March, 1994.
“Guns in the Marketplace: The Legacy of the Famine of 1817,” The Social Science
History Association, November, 1991.
“Bakers and Bankruptcy: The Problem of Urban Provisioning, in France 1750-1791,” AllCalifornia Economic History Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, March 1990 and the
History Department Seminar, The University of California, Riverside, March, 1990.
“Urban Provisioning Problems after the Revolution: Municipal Bread Tarifs, 1750-1863,” The
French History Seminar, The University of California, Irvine, March, 1990.
“Politics and Urban Provisioning Crises: Municipal Bread Tarifs in Northern France, 1750-1793,”
The Society for French Historical Studies, March, 1990.
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“Rethinking Urban Provisioning Crises: Municipal Bread Prices in Northern France,” Economic
History Association, September, 1989.
“Legal Battles and Provisioning Networks: Subsistence Issues in Upper Normandy
after Thermidor,” International Conference on the Bicentennial of the French
Revolution, Washington, D.C., May, 1989.
“Les marchés céréaliers à la veille de la Révolution le modèle de l'économie
pragmatique,” Rouen (France) Congress, La Révolution française et les processus
de socialisation de l'homme moderne, October, 1988.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Barry M. Shapiro, Traumatic Politics: The Deputies and the King in the Early French Revolution.
Penn State University Press, 2009), The Journal of Modern History, forthcoming, 2010.
Andrew Jainchill, Reimagining Politics after the Terror: The Republican Origins of French
Liberalism. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2008), The American Historical
Review, forthcoming, 2009-2010.
Robert Allen, Les Tribunaux criminels sous la Révolution et l’Empire, 1792-1811.
(Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2005), March 2006, H-France (Online
Discussion Group).
Emma Rothschild, Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the
Enlightenment (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001), The Journal
of Modern History (2004).
Michael Kwass, Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France:
Liberté, Egalité, Fiscalité (Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press,
2000), August 2002, H-France (Online Discussion Group)
Victoria E. Thompson, The Virtuous Marketplace: Women and Men, Money and Politics
in Paris, 1830-1870 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), The Journal of
Economic History 61 (December 2001): 1120-1121
William Doyle, Venality: The Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century
France (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996),
Social History, May 1999.
Economics and the Historian, Thomas Rawski, ed. (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1996), The Journal of Economic History, September, 1998.
Comité pour l'histoire économique et financière de la France. Etat, finances et
économie pendant la Révolution française. (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1991),
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 26 (1) (Summer, 1995): 100-101.
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Michael Sonenscher, Work and Wages: Natural Law, Politics and the EighteenthCentury French trades (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), The Journal of
Economic History, 51 (3) (Sept., 1991), pp. 715-717.
P. M. Jones, The Peasantry in the French Revolution (Cambridge and New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1988), The Historian, Spring 1991.
Florence Gauthier, et al, La Guerre des blés au dix-huitième siècle (Paris: Editions
sociales, 1988), Food and Foodways.
Herman Lebovics, The Alliance of Iron and Wheat in the Third French Republic,
1860-1914: Origins of the New Conservatism (Baton Rouge and London:
Louisiana State University Press, 1988), The Journal of Economic History, 49 (2)
(June, 1989): 487-488.
CONFERENCE COMMENTS:
“The Semiotics of Suicide in Old Regime and Revolutionary France,” Western Society for French
History, November 2008 (Québec City, Québec, Canada)
“Gendering War Memories,” at Gender, War and Politics: The Wars of Revolution and Liberation
- Transatlantic Comparisons, 1775 – 1820, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, May
2007. (Conference Co-organizer)
“Destination Paris: Travel, Transit, and Attractions (1800-1850),” Western Society for French
History, October 2006 (Long Beach, CA).
“Women, Nation and Patriotism in the Wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France,” The
American Historical Association, January 2006.
“Gender and Citizenship,” invited comment for international conference, “Napoleon and Empire:
A Symposium Exploring the Nature and Impact of the Napoleonic Empire,” Verona (Italy),
June, 2004.
“Economics and History as Equal Partners in Economic History,” The Social Science History
Association, October 1997.
“Mind over Matter: The Rhetoric of the Market,” The Economic History Association, September
1997.
“The Future of Economic History,” Convener/Moderator of Joint AHA/EHA Session,
The American Historical Association, January 1996.
All-University of California Economic History Conference, Dissertation Session, November 1995.
“Food Riots: The Comparative Context,” British Studies Conference, April 1992.
“Ecological Determinants of Social Mobilization in the Chinese Revolution,” The American
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Historical Association, December 1989.
DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED:
Dana Irwin, “Revolutionary Histrionics: Theater, Violence and the Creation of Bourgeois
Masculinity,” in progress, prospectus defended Fall 2008.
Jayme Akers Feagin, “Sentimental Tools: Narrative, Medicine and Gender in Napoleonic
France.” 2009.
Scott Gavorsky, “Ceding to the Circumstances: State Institutions, Civil Society, and
Running the Schools in Maine-et-Loire, 1825-1875.” 2009. Awarded a Dean’s Fifth-Year
Teaching Fellowship, 2005-2006.
Dwain Pruitt, "Nantes Noir: Living Race in the City of Slavers.” 2005.
RECENT DISSERTATION COMMITTEES (SECOND OR THIRD READER):
Douglas Powell, “Magistrates and Municipal Politics: The Bordeaux Parlementaires during the
Reign of Louis XIV.” 2009.
Carol White, “The Practice of Cosmopolitanism: A Transnational Study of the Enlightenment in
France and Geneva, 1755–1768.” 2008.
Lilia Coropceanu (Department of French and Italian), “Faber suae fortunae: l'autoformation du
sujet dans l'oeuvre de LaFayette, Marivaux, Stendhal.” 2007.
Jeffrey Houghtby, “Les Biens Communaux: Common Lands, Property Rights, and Agrarian
Modernization in Early Modern Burgundy, 1550-1789.” 2006.
Jonathyne Briggs, “Electrifying France: Modernization and French Popular Music, 1958-1981.”
2006.
Darryl Dee, “The Practice of Absolutism: Franche-Comté in the Kingdom of France, 1674-1715.”
2004.
Yael Simpson Fletcher, “City, Nation, and Empire in Marseilles, 1919-1939.” 1999.
In progress: Kris Mayerhof (Comparative Literature).
MASTERS THESES DIRECTED:
Peter Clericuzio, “Le Corbusier and the Legacy of World War II,” Emory University,
2005. Awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship to France, 2005-2006.
Matthew Stanton Dunne, “The Path Not Chosen: The French Army, Its Influences, and Its
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Potential for Change, 1927-1934,” Emory University, 1998.
Jennifer Ellen McMullen, “Transformations of Self: Post-revolutionary Memoirs of
Ancien Régime Noblewomen,” Emory University, 1996.
John Liam Hynes, “Liberty and Authority in Eighteenth-Century France: The Weakness
of Individualism in the ‘Liberal’ Revolution,” Emory University, 1994.
PREPUBLICATION REVIEW:
Oxford University Press
Cornell University Press
University of Chicago Press
Johns Hopkins Press
History Compass
French Historical Studies
Journal of Women's History
Gender and History
Blackwell Publishers
Women’s History Review
NATIONAL SERVICE:
Kenshur Book Prize Committee, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana
University, 2007-2008
Organized Forum “Sites of Consumption: An Interdisciplinary Conversation,” for
Historical Methods. (Follow-up to the EHA/AHA session in January 1999)
Economic History Association, Historian’s Outreach, 1996-1999
Economic History Association, Nominating Committee, 1997-8
Economic History Association, Program Committee, 1995-6
American Historical Association, Local Arrangements Committee, 1996-5
Society for French Historical Studies, Program Committee, 1994-5
Economic History Association, Nominating Committee, 1991-2
UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE SERVICE:
European Studies, Founding Co-Director, 2005-2007, 2008-2009, 2010-2011.
President’s Commission on the Status of Women, Focus-Group on Gender and
Rank, 2006-2007.
European Studies, Seed Money, successful grant, co-author, May 2005
Retirees’ Benefits Committee (Senate ad hoc committee), 2003-2004
Future of Emory Committee (Appointed Member, 2003-2004)
Dillard/Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Committee, Chair, 2002-2003
Passages Program, Mentor for a Junior Faculty Member, 2002-2006
French Department Film Series, Invited Commentator, 2001-2003
College Executive Committee, 2000-2003
Chair, College Admissions and Scholarships Committee, 2000-2003
Council for European Studies, Emory University Liaison, 1994-present
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University Faculty Senate, 1999-2000
University Faculty Council, 1999-2000
TATTO, Faculty Co-Liaison with the Center for Teaching and Curriculum, 1998-9
TATTO Micro-teaching session, August, 1998
Women's Club Dissertation Award Committee, 1998
Humanities Subcommittee, Curriculum Implementation, Spring 1998
College Admissions and Scholarship Committee, 1995-1996
Language Across the Curriculum Committee, 1995-1996
College Budget Committee, Fall 1994
Student Organization Review Committee, 1991-1992
Eighteenth-Century Studies Group, Co-Coordinator, 1990-1992
Center for Language, Literature and Culture, 1989-90
Graduate Admissions Office Representative, 1989-90
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE:
Department Fundraising/Alumni Outreach, 2010-2011
Undergraduate Program Committee, 2010-2011
Vann Seminar Committee, 1999-2003, Fall 2008, 2010-2011 (Chair, 2000-2001; Fall 2008)
Early Modern French History Search, Chair, 2006-2007
Coordinator, History and Economics Joint Major, 1990-2006
Revolutionary United States History Search Committee, 2005-2006
Department Executive Committee, 2005-2006
Early Modern British Search Committee, 2003-2004
Co-convener, “Globalization” discussion group, Fall 2003
Graduate Recruitment Weekend Conference, Organizer, 2002-2003
Department Colloquium Committee, Chair, 2000-2001
Minority Recruitment Committee, 1997-2000 (Chair, Spring 2000)
TATTO coordinator, 1997-2001
Graduate Program Committee, 1999-2000
“The West in World Context,” course co-developer for submission for General
Education Requirements, 1998-1999
Seminar on the Comparative History of Labor, Industrialization, Technology and
Society (SCHLITS), 1990-1998
SCHLITS Workshop Committee, 1995-6
Phi Alpha Theta Faculty Adviser, 1989-92
Japanese Search Committee, 1989-90
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: American Historical Association, Society for French Historical
Studies, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Western Society for French History
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP:
Founders’ Week, “Jane Austen Series,” February 2009
Emory University Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Great Works Seminar.
“Jane Austen’s World,” 2008-2009. Monthly seminar open to the public.
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High Museum, Louvre-Atlanta Project
Humanities Council, Louvre Atlanta, 2008Consulting, Historical background, 2005-2007
“The New Moralism: Chardin and Greuze,” High Museum, Gallery Talk, October 23, 2008.
“Marketing Love: The Rococo,” High Museum, Gallery Talk, October 16, 2008.
“Several Sensational Scandals on the Eve of the French Revolution, and Why They
Mattered,” Public Lecture, High Museum, September 1, 2007.
“Networks of Power: Monarchy and Society in France, 1600-1789,” Saturday
Seminar, High Museum, November, 2006.
Audio Tour for Louvre-Atlanta (2006-2007)
Chicago Public Radio, Odyssey, Program on Napoleon’s Civil Code, December 2004.
“Don’t Trust the Pretty Facades: Impression and Women in Nineteenth-Century France,”
Public lecture at the High Museum (Atlanta), “High Noon” Series.
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
National Cancer Institute. 1999-2003
Subcommittee H, Committee member, 2002-2003
Site evaluations, 1999-2003.
Subcommittee D (Clinical trials) Participant, 1999-2003
National Cancer Institute, Consumer Advocates in Research and Related Activities
(CARRA) (2001-2004). Liaison with BMT-Talk (Online discussion group).
“Clinical Indicators for Transplantation Workgroup,” National Policy Forum on
Marrow Donation and Transplantation, Bureau of Health Resources Development,
Division of Transplantation, June 1997, Washington DC.
Drive Coordinator, National Marrow Donor Program, Atlanta-Area Drive, November 22,
1997. Funded and organized a $23,000 drive to put 500 more potential donors on the
NMDP Registry.
“The Post-BMT Snakepit,” BMT Newsletter, June 1994. Reprinted in Marie Baktias Whedon
and Debra Wujcik, Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation: Principles, Practice and
Nursing Insights, 2nd ed. (Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1997), pp. 432-435; excerpted
in Susan K. Stewart, The Bone Marrow Transplants: A Book of Basics for Patients, 2nd ed.,
2000.
Leukemia Society of American, Georgia Chapter, Support Group Committee, 1993-
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1998.
BMT-Talk, List Co-Owner. Email discussion group with approximately 600
subscribers world-wide, focusing on bone marrow transplantation, 1998.
Roundtable, “What do patients want?” American Society of Clinical Laboratory Science,
Annual Meeting, July 1997.
“Post-BMT Quality of Life.” TRIO, Annual Meeting, November 1996.
First Annual BMT-Talk/Hem-Onc Reunion, Baltimore, MD, June, 1996. Organized
national 3-day reunion for members of two online cancer discussion groups.
Atlanta Symphony, Education Committee, 1991-1992.
LANGUAGES: French, German