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Andrew Miller

  • amille29@depaul.edu
  • Teaching Professor
  • MA, PhD, Fellow of the Royal Historical S​ociety
  • History
  • Adjunct Faculty
  • ​ Medieval England and Europe, Social and Gender History

  • 773-325-2645
  • SAC 413

​https://depaul.academia.edu/AndewMiller

Dr. Miller currently researches how issues of gender and masculinity play out during conflicts between laymen and clerics in the Middle Ages. On this subject, Miller published a book titled Patronage, Power, and Masculinity in Medieval England: A Microhistory of a Bishop's and Knight's Contest over the Church of Thame (New York: Routledge, 2023). On related topics, he has also published several articles. Most recently, with Anne Grauer, “Flesh on the Bones: An Historical and Bioarchaeological Exploration of Sex, Gender, and Trauma in Medieval England," in Fragments: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Ancient and Medieval Pasts, Volume 6 (2017), 38-79. The same year he penned “Deer Parks and Masculine Egos: Knights, Priors, and Bishops in the Medieval North of England," in Princes of the Church: Bishops and their Palaces, ed. D. Rollason (New York​: Routledge 2017), 127-141. Prior to that, Miller published “'Tails' of Masculinity: Knights, Clerics and the Mutilation of Horses in Medieval England," Speculum 88.4 (October 2013): 958-995, “To 'Frock' a Cleric: The Gendered Implications of Mutilating Ecclesiastical Vestments in Medieval England," Gender and History ​24:2 (August 2012): 271-91, and “Knights, Bishops and Deer Parks: Episcopal Identity, Emasculation and Clerical Space in Medieval England," in Negotiating Clerical Identities: Priests, Monks and Masculinity in the Middle Ages, ed. Jennifer Thibodeaux (Palgrave 2010), 204-37. His latest project explores medieval France: “Monks and Their Frenemies: Chronicling Gender, Masculinity, and Violence in Twelfth-Century Vézelay." Tanya Stabler Miller, ed. Medieval Work, Worship, and Power: Persuasive and Silenced Voices (Forthcoming with Routledge). ​

Education: Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

    • Dissertation: Carpe Ecclesiam: Households, Identity & Violent Communication, Church & Crown under King Edward I

    MA. Mediev​​​​​al History, University of Toronto, Canada

      • Masters Thesis: Female Association with Witchcraft during the Late Middle Ages​
      BA, History (with honors) and Literature (with honors), University of Iowa; Pembroke College, University of Oxford​

      PUBLICATIONS
        • Patronage, Power, and Masculinity in Medieval England: A Microhistory of a Bishop’s and Knight’s Contest over the Church of Thame (London and New York: Routledge, 2023)​
        • With Anne Grauer (Loyola), “Flesh on the Bones: An Historical and Bioarchaeological Exploration of Sex, Gender, and Trauma in Medieval England.” Fragments: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Ancient and Medieval Pasts, Volume 6 (2017), 38-79
        • ​ “Deer Parks and Masculine Egos: Knights, Priors, and Bishops in the Medieval North of England." Princes of the Church: Bishops and their Palaces, ed. D. Rollason (New York: Routledge 2017), 127-141
        • "Tails of Masculinity: Knights, Clerics and the Mutilation of Horses in Medieval England." Speculum 88.4 (October 2013), pp 958-995
        • "To 'Frock'​ a Cleric: The Gendered Implications of Mutilating Ecclesiastical Vestments" in Medieval England Gender & History, Vol.24 No.2 (August 2012):​​ 271-91
        • "Knights, Bishops and Deer Parks: Episcopal Identity, Emasculation and Clerical Space in Medieval England" in Negotiating Clerical Identities: Priests, Monks and Masculinity in the Middle Ages, ed. Jennifer D. Thibodeaux (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
              INVITED TALKS
                • ​Lectured on “Aristocratic Identity and Hunting Grounds: Landscapes of Privilege and Violence in the North of Medieval England," at the “Colloquium: Celebrating the Work and Pedagogy of Sharon Farmer," University of California, Santa Barbara, February 2019​

                • ​​​​​​Lectured on “Bishops and Deer Parks," specifically “Deer, Parks, and Masculine Egos: Knights, Priors, and Bishops in the North of Medieval England," in Bishop Auckland, England, for the conference “Princes of the Church and their Palaces: An International Conference and Public Lectures hosted by Bishop Auckland T​​​own Hall and Auckland Castle," June-July 2015
                • Lectured with Anne Grauer of Loyola University on “Flesh on the Bones: An Historical and Bioarchaeological Exploration of Sex, Gender, and Trauma in Medieval England," for the conference “A Thing of the Past: Material Evidence and the Writing of England's Past," University of Michigan, Tisch Hall, June 2015

                • Organized and taught a half-day session of “The Vikings: Medieval Ambassadors of Terror, Trade and Multiculturalism," at the Newberry Library Teachers' Consortium on strategies for high school teachers to approach the Vikings in the classroom, March 2015

                • Organize​​​​d and taught two half-day sessions​ of Sex, Violence and Gladiators: Teaching the Roman Empire (without Hollywood), at the Newberry Library in Chicago on strategies for high school teachers to approach the Roman Empire in the classroom (March 2013).
                • Organized and co-taught a day-long seminar, Religion, Propaganda, and War: Medieval and Modern Understandings of the Crusades, at the Newberry Library on strategies for high school teachers to approach the crusades in the classroom, December 2010
                • Lectured on Animal Mutilation and the Law in Medieval England, at the Medieval Studies Center of Loyola University Chicago lecture series, Law and Order: The Middle Ages, April 2009
                ​​HONORS AND AWARDS
                • Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, September 2023
                • ​​Awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, DePaul University, 2013-2014
                • Nominated for an Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, DePaul University, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2015-2016
                • Nominated for a Graduate Student Association Excellence in Teaching Award, UCSB, 1997-1998​​​
                    SERVICE
                      • Recipient of an Excellence in Teaching Award in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
                      • Organized a panel, Conflict, Violence and the Construction of Clerical Masculinity in Medieval Europe, at the 126th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, January 2012
                      • Review of Kay Slocum, Sources in Medieval Culture and Politics (Prentice Hall), December 2008
                      • Organized and moderated a talk at DePaul Universitys Art Museum by Sharon Farmer on The Empire Comes Back: France and the Mediterranean World during the Age of the Crusades, May 2008
                      • Panel Moderator, Husbands, Lovers, and Fathers: Clerical Masculinity in Crisis, at the 13th annual ACMRS Conference, Masculinities and Femininities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Phoenix, Arizona, February 2007
                            CURRENT PROJECTS
                              • “Monks and Their Frenemies: Chronicling Gender, Masculinity, and Violence in Twelfth-Century Vézelay." Tanya Stabler Miller, ed. Medieval Work, Worship, and Power: Persuasive and Silenced Voices (Forthcoming with Routledge)
                              RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
                              • Social and Religious History of the Middle Ages​
                              • Violence and Masculinity in Medieval England
                              • Relationship between Knights and Clerics​
                              • Imperial Rome
                              • Late Antiquity
                              • Medieval Literature

                              CLASSES TAUGHT​​​

                              • Ancient Rome: Augustus to Constantine (History 285)
                              • Crusades (History 365)
                              • England to 1688  History 292)
                              • Europe, 400-1400 CE (History 171)
                              • God, Self, and Society in Medieval Culture (​History 316)
                              • History in Global Contexts: The First Crusade (Honors 102)​
                              • History in Global Contexts: The Vikings (Honors 102)​
                              • History in Global Contexts: Witchcraft (Honors 102)​
                              • ​​​Vikings: Medieval Ambassadors of Terror, Trade and Multiculturalism (History 217)​
                              • Western Europe: From Renaissance to Enlightenment: 1348 to 1789 (History 172)
                              • Witchcraft in the Western World: Gender, Culture, and the Law (History 238)

                              TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

                              My educational philosophy is firmly grounded in the belief that we must train students to become better historians. I structure my lectures, readings, assignments, and exams with the goal of developing students'​​​​​ abilities to think critically about the past, to formulate their own analyses of primary sources as well as continuity and change over time, and to communicate clearly and logically ​​​in written and verbal form their own interpretation of History.

                              REASON FOR CHOOSING FIELD OF STUDY

                              The money.