Christopher L. Miller
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| To give you a little background about me, I'm originally from Portland, Oregon and earned my bachelor's degree from Lewis and Clark College. I earned my Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I specialized in studying early American history, American Indian history, the history of the American West, and the history of American religious movements. After completing my doctoral studies, I taught for three years at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey and then spent one year as a post-doctoral scholar at Harvard University. I joined the faculty at the University of Texas—Pan American (now UT Rio Grande Valley) in 1985 where I currently hold the titles of Professor of History and Associate Director of the Community Historical Archaeology Project with Schools (CHAPS) Program. My publications include Prophetic Worlds; Indians and Whites on the Columbia Plateau (1985) and a considerable number of articles and professional reviews on American Indian history and culture as well as books and articles concerning the Civil War in the Rio Grande Valley. I am also the co-author of Making America: A History of the United States, now in its seventh edition (2015). I was a participant in the Native American Civics Project funded by the Kellogg Foundation, have served as a consultant for Indian tribal governments on matters of law, and lectured on the topic of Native American constitutional status. |