Nick Miller
Department Chair
Nick Miller studied history at Indiana University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1991. He teaches courses on Central and Eastern European history.
Professor Miller's research focus is the lands of the former Yugoslavia. His publications include articles on Serbian and Croatian history before the First World War and Serbian politics and culture since 1945. His book on the Serbian community of Croatia, entitled Between Nation and State: Serbian Politics in Croatia before the First World War, appeared courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh Press in the fall of 1997. His articles have appeared in The Slavic Review, East European Politics and Societies, Nationalities Papers, Orbis, and Problems of Post-Communism, and in edited volumes. He regularly reviews books for The Slavic Review, The American Historical Review, Nationalities Papers, and other journals in his field, and has been called upon to review manuscripts for the Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, McGill University Press, and the University of Alberta Press.
Miller has been a recipient of fellowships from the International Research and Exchanges Board, the Andrew Mellon foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His research has taken him to former Yugoslavia in 1988-89, 1996, and 2000, and he has traveled extensively in Eastern Europe in general. His most recent trip was to Bosnia in 2000, when he acted as historical advisor and field producer for a documentary entitled 'Bosnia to Boise and Back,' produced by local journalists. The documentary, which focused on the lives of one family of Bosnian refugees in Boise, has aired on KBCI in Boise and is scheduled to be shown on Idaho Public Television in 2002.
Miller's expertise has been sought by various groups over the years: in 1995, he served on a joint Department of State/Johns Hopkins University project on 'democratization in Eastern Europe'; in 1997, he was invited to speak at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government on Serbian nationalism; in 1999, he was interviewed about the Kosovo crisis several times on NPR's Morning Edition. He is currently on the editorial board of the journal Nationalities Papers.
Miller is currently at work on a study of a Serbian artistic and literary circle between 1945 and 1991.
| Office | L-193 |
| Phone | 208/426-3902 |
| nmiller@boisestate.edu |