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Brigham Young University
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Field: Latin America, Brazil, Environmental History
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Biography Professor Miller joined the history department in 1997 after completing his Ph.D. at Columbia University. He specializes in the colonial and environmental history of Brazil and Latin America. His publications include: An Environmental History of Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2007), which won the 2008 Melville Book Prize for Environmental History; Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber (Stanford University Press, 2000); "Stilt-root Subsistence: Colonial Mangrove Conservation and Brazil's Free Poor" (Hispanic American Historical Review); and "Fuelwood in Colonial Brazil: the Economic and Social Consequences of Fuel Depletion for the Bahian Recôncavo, 1549-1820" (Forest & Conservation History). His current research looks at the meanings and uses of the street in Rio de Janeiro, and at the local response to its transformation from free public space to automobile corridor. His scholarship and teaching were honored in 2006 with the Class of '49 Young Faculty Award. Dr. Miller currently serves as department chair. |
