Kerby Alonzo Miller (born December 30, 1944)[1] is an American historian and emeritus professor at University of Missouri.[2] He is known for his works on Irish immigration to and identity in the United States.

Kerby A. Miller
Born
Kerby Alonzo Miller

(1944-12-30) December 30, 1944 (age 79)
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisEmigrants and Exiles (1976)
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineAmerican history
InstitutionsUniversity of Missouri
Main interestsHistory of Irish Americans

Life

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Miller graduated from Pomona College, and from University of California, Berkeley, with an MA and PhD in 1976. He is a visiting researcher at Queen's University Belfast.[3]

He has argued extensively that historian Richard J. Jensen's claims about anti-Irish sentiment in America were inaccurate.[4]

Miller collected and transcribed over decades hundreds of letters from Irish immigrants in America. The letters range in date from the late 1600s to the 1950s. He deposited transcripts of these letters at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway to be made available on a searchable database.[5]

Awards

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Works

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Chapters

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  • Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia (1990). "Class, Culture, and Immigrant Group Identity in the United States". In Virginia Yans-McLaughlin (ed.). Immigration reconsidered: history, sociology, and politics. Oxford University Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-19-505510-8.
  • Dermot Keogh; Michael H. Haltzel, eds. (1993). "Revising Revisionism: Comments and Reflections". Northern Ireland and the Politics of Reconciliation. Cambridge University Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-521-45933-4.
  • Charles Fanning, ed. (2000). "'Scotch-Irish' Myths and 'Irish' Identities in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century America". New perspectives on the Irish diaspora. SIU Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-2344-9.
  • Kerby A. Miller; Bruce D. Bolling; Liam Kennedy (2003). "The Famine's Scars: William Murphy's Ulster, and American Odyssey". In Kevin Kenny (ed.). New directions in Irish-American history. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-18714-9.
  • Margaret M. Mulrooney, ed. (2003). "In the Famine's Shadow: An Irish Immigrant from West Kerry to South Dakota, 1881–1979". Fleeing the famine: North America and Irish refugees, 1845-1851. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-97670-5.

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References

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  1. ^ "Miller, Kerby A. 1944–". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  2. ^ "Kerby Miller - History at the University of Missouri-Columbia". History.missouri.edu. Archived from the original on 2006-03-05.
  3. ^ "Queen's University Belfast | Dr Kerby a Miller". Archived from the original on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2010-01-25.
  4. ^ Collins, Ben (August 1, 2015). "The Teen Who Exposed a Professor's Myth". The Daily Beast.
  5. ^ McGrath, Pat (16 March 2021). "NUI Galway project to digitise letters from emigrants over hundreds of years". Rte.ie. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
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  • Kerby Miller Papers at Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University Special Collections