Professor; Director, Graduate Program
Heritage Hall 360Q
(205) 975-6531
Research and Teaching Interests: The history of capitalism, early modern Europe, and the French Revolution
Office Hours: Tu/Th 11:00 - 12:00 (and by appointment)
Education:
- B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1991
- M.A., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 1994
- Ph.D., UCLA, 1999
Born and raised near downtown Chicago, I became fascinated with French history as a student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, when I learned about all of the revolutionary upheavals in the country’s past. I’ve since become an historian of Old Regime France and the Revolution.
Stephen Miller’s latest book is entitled The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France .
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Recent Courses
- The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon
- Graduate Seminar: The Old Regime and the French Revolution
- Graduate Seminar: Tradition and Modernity in French History
- Capitalism and Crises in Modern History
- Europe in the Seventeenth Century: Absolutism, Revolution, and Science
- Western and World Civilizations I: Prehistory to 1648
- The French Enlightenment: Society and Letters
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Select Publications
Books:
- Stephen Miller and Xavier Lafrance, The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France (Routledge, 2023)
- Stephen Miller, State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France: A Study of Political Power and Social Revolutions in Languedoc. Revised and Updated Edition (Haymarket Books, 2023)
- Stephen Miller, Feudalism, Venality and Revolution: Provincial Assemblies in Late Old Regime France (Manchester University Press, 2020)
- Stephen Miller and Christopher Isett, The Social History of Agriculture: From the Origins to the Current Crisis (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).
Articles:
- Stephen Miller, “The Rural Municipalities of 1787: The Nobility, Seigneurial Regime and Revolutionary Politics in France.” European Review of History/revue européenne d’histoire vol. 26, no. 3, (2019): 386-408.
- Stephen Miller, “The Economy of France in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Market Opportunity and Labor Productivity in Languedoc.” Rural History vol. 20, no. 1, (2009): 1-30.
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Academic Distinctions & Professional Memberships
Scholarships: the American Philosophical Society, Fulbright, and the Mellon Foundation.
- American Historical Association
- Society for French Historical Studies
- Western Society for French History
- Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850
- Historical Materialism
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Student Groups
- Phi Alpha Theta, Chi Omicron Chapter (History Honors Society)
- Students for Justice in Palestine
- Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA)