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Professor, Director, Public History Program
Office: Herter 609
Telephone: (413) 545-4256
Fax: (413) 545-6137
E-mail: mmiller@history.umass.edu
Personal web site
Degree: Ph.D., University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1997).
Field(s) of interest: Early American History, Women's History,
and American Material Culture, as well as Public History.
Graduate Courses Offered:
American Material Culture
Museum & Historic Sites
Public History
Topics in Early American History: The Era of the American Revolution
Research Interests and Professional
Activities
Marla Miller's primary research interest is U.S. women's work before industrialization. Her book, The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution, appeared from the University of Massachusetts Press in August 2006, and won the Costume Society of America's Millia Davenport Publication Award for the best book in the field for that year. Related articles have appeared in the New England Quarterly (1998), the proceedings of the Dublin Seminar on New England Folklife (2000), and the William and Mary Quarterly (2003). She is presently completing work on a microhistory of women and work in Federal Massachusetts, and diving into a new project that she is especially excited about: a scholarly biography of that most-misunderstood early American craftswoman, Betsy Ross. As Director of the History Department's Public History program, Marla also teaches courses in Public History, American Material Culture, and Museum and Historic Site Interpretation, and continues to consult with a wide variety of museums and historic sites. For syllabi for her courses in the Public History Program, see that section of the Department's website or the graduate course listings.
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