Jaroslav Miller
Prof. Mgr. Jaroslav Miller, M.A., Ph.D. (* 8 January 1971 Šumperk, the Czech Republic) is a professor of history and rector at Palacký University in Olomouc. He focuses on urban studies, the history of political thought and lately also questions of Czech and Slovak exile.
Life
Professor Miller studied history and philology in Olomouc (Palacký University), Budapest (Central European University) and Oxford (University of Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall). His teachers included Josef Jařab, Ralf Dahrendorf, Stephen Greenblatt and Robert John Weston Evans.
He has taken part in many long-term fellowships at universities and scientific institutions in Canada, Hungary, United States, Great Britain, Germany and Australia. He was twice appointed a fellow of the German scientific Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2006 in Marburg, 2010 in Münster) and the American Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2004, 2010 Wolfenbüttel). In 2008 he was a Fulbright Fellow at Georgia College and State University. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he held a Guest Professorship at the University of Western Australia in Perth. In 2012, the Ambassador of the USA appointed him a Fulbright Program Ambassador to the Czech Republic.[1] In the same year he was appointed Professor of History.[2]
In 2008 the British publishing house Ashgate published his monograph Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500–1700. In 2010 he published in New York and Budapest (together with László Kontler) the monograph Friars, Nobles and Burghers – Sermons, Images and Prints: Studies of Culture and Society in Early-Modern Europe.
On 16 October 2013 he was elected as the Rector of Palacký University for the period 2014-2018. His term began on 1 February 2014.[3]
Awards
Miller has received several academic and scientific awards. In 2005 he was awarded the "R. John Rath Prize for Best Study in Habsburg History" or "Best Urban History Monograph Award".[4]
Selection of monographic scientific works by Jaroslav Miller
- Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500 – 1700, (Ashgate: Aldershot – New York, 2008).
- The Palatine Myth: Frederick V. and the Image of the Bohemian War in Early Stuart England, (ARGO: Prague, 2004).
- The Birth of Leviathan Postponed: The Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy, 1603 – 1641, (ARGO: Prague, 2006).
- The Closed Society and its Enemies: The City in East Central Europe (1500 – 1700), (Nakladatelství Lidové noviny: Prague, 2006).
- John Barclay – Argenis: Intellectual Roots of European Absolutism, (Nakladatelství Lidové noviny: Prague, 2009).
- With László Kontler: Friars, Nobles and Burghers – Sermons, Images and Prints: Studies in Culture and Society in Early Modern Europe (New York - Budapest: CEU Press, 2010).
External links
References
- ↑ "Fulbright Honorary Ambassadors" (in Czech). J. W. Fulbright Commission. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
- ↑ "Jaroslav Miller". Palacký University, Olomouc. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.ceu.hu/article/2013-10-22/ceu-alumnus-jaroslav-miller-elected-rector-palacky-university
- ↑ "Rath Prize: Center for Austrian Studies". Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
The text is an English translation of the original Czech version.