Professor Miller joined the history department in 1997 soon after completing his Ph.D. at Columbia University. He specializes in the environmental history of Brazil and Latin America. His publications include Dream Road to Pan America: A Century in Pursuit of the World’s Longest Highway (University of California Press, 2026); The Street is Ours: Community, the Car, and the Nature of Public Space in Rio de Janeiro (Cambridge, 2018); An Environmental History of Latin America (Cambridge, 2007), which won the Melville Book Prize; and Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber (Stanford, 2000). His current research examines both public transit and animal conservation in Brazil. He has served as chair of the history department and as associate dean for research in the College of Family Home and Social Sciences. For a decade, he chaired Provo City’s Agricultural Commission, which works to preserve local farm land.
