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ADDRESS
Department of History
Missouri State University
Springfield, Missouri 65897
Office Phone: (417) 836-4141
Home Phone: (417) 864-4565
E-Mail: BobMiller@MissouriState.edu
EDUCATION
1984 University of Oklahoma, Ph.D., History
1977 Trinity University, M.A., History
1971 University of Texas at Austin, B.A., Government
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
1995-Present Professor, Missouri State University
(Formerly Southwest Missouri State University)
1990-95 Associate Professor, Southwest Missouri State University
1987-90 Assistant Professor, Southwest Missouri State University
1986-87 Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas A & M University,
College Station
1985-86 Visiting Assistant Professor, East Texas State University
1984-85 Lecturer, University of Oklahoma
MONOGRAPHS
2010
Populist Cartoons: An Illustrated History of the People’s Party
Movement of the 1890s
(Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, forthcoming 2010)
1987
Oklahoma Populism: A History of the People's Party in the Oklahoma
Territory.
(Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987)
CHAPTERS
2006, 1996 "Farmers and Third-Party Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century
America." In The Gilded Age:
Essays on the
Origins of
Modern America. pp. 235-60. Edited by Charles
W. Calhoun. Wilmington, Delaware:
Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1996, rev.
ed. 2006. Reprint:
http://History.MissouriState.edu/wrmiller/
1994 "The Republican Tradition." In
American Populism, pp. 209-14.
Edited by William F. Holmes.
Problems in American Civilization Series. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath &
Co., 1994.
Reprint:
http://History.MissouriState.edu/wrmiller/
WEBSITE
2001 Populism Website:
Overview Essay, Historiography, Bibliography,
Cartoon Presentation, and Primary Documents.
http://History.MissouriState.edu/wrmiller/
ARTICLES
2009
"The Populist Vision: A Roundtable Discussion,"
Kansas History (Forthcoming - Spring 2009)
Editor, Introduction, and Commentary
2008
"Building a Populist Coalition in Texas, 1892-1896,"
Journal of Southern History 74 no. 2 (May 2008): 255-96.
Co-authored with Stacy G. Ulbig.
2003 “Educating the Masses: Cartoons from the Populist Press of the
1890s.” American Nineteenth
Century History
4, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 104-119.
2002 "The Lost World of Gilded Age Politics."
Journal of the Gilded Age
and Progressive Era
1, no. 1 (January 2002):
49-67.
Reprint:
http://History.MissouriState.edu/wrmiller/
1995 "Harrison County Methods: Election Fraud in Late Nineteenth-Century
Texas." Locus:
Regional and Local
History of the Americas 7, no. 2 (Spring 1995):
111-28.
Reprint:
http://History.MissouriState.edu/wrmiller/
1993 "Ethnic Conflict and Machine Politics in San Antonio, 1892-1899."
Journal of Urban History 19, no. 4
(August 1993): 63-84. Co-authored with Dale Baum.
1993 "A Centennial Historiography of American Populism."
Kansas History
16, no. 1 (Spring
1993): 54-69.
Reprint:
http://History.MissouriState.edu/wrmiller/
1987 "Gilded Age Development and the Populist Revolt in Oklahoma
Territory," Texas Journal
of Political Studies
9, no. 2 (Spring-Summer 1987): 32-45.
1986 "Building a Progressive Coalition in Texas: The Populist-Reform
Democrat Rapprochement,
1900-1907."
Journal of Southern History 52, no. 2 (May 1986): 163-82.
Reprint:
http://History.MissouriState.edu/wrmiller/
1985 "Frontier Politics: The Bases of Partisan Choice in Oklahoma
Territory, 1890-1904." Chronicles of Oklahoma
62, no. 4 (Winter 1984-85): 429-46.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2001, 1989 A List of References for the History of the Farmers' Alliance
and Populist Party 2nd rev. ed.
http://History.MissouriState.edu/wrmiller/.
Revision of Henry Clay Dethloff's 1973 volume
of the same title (Davis, CA: Agricultural
History Center, 1989)
HANDBOOK ENTRIES
2007 Populist Party and biographies of Samuel Crocker and Leo Vincent,
Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
2003 Biographies of William Vincent Allen, James Harvey "Cyclone" Davis,
Lorenzo Lewelling,
William Alfred Peffer,
Henry and Leo Vincent, and entry on Omaha
Platform of 1892, Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age.
1995 Biographies of James H. (Cyclone) Davis, Barnett Gibbs, Thomas P.
Gore,
Isaac Newton (Newt) Gresham,
Charles H. Jenkins, Marion Martin,
Thomas L. Nugent, Owen Pinkney Pyle, and Andrew Jackson Spradley,
Handbook of Texas.
1992 Biography of Governor Lorenzo D. Lewelling of Kansas,
American
National Biography.
HONORS
2008-2009
Missouri State University,
College of Humanities and Public Affairs Incentive Award
2005, 2000 Who's Who Among America's Teachers, Honoring Our Nation’s
Most Respected Teachers
2003 Missouri State University,
University Research Award
2008-2009 Missouri State University,
Sabbatical for Research
2000-2001
1993-1994
1997 Missouri State University,
College of Humanities and Public Affairs Recognition Award in Service
1991-1992 Missouri State University Foundation,
Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Research
1982-1983 University of Oklahoma, A.K. Christian Graduate Fellowship
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2010 The First British Empire
(Missouri London Program)
2010 Eighteenth Century England
(Missouri London Program)
2005 American Slavery
(one semester hour Intersession Course)
2004 Graduate Seminar: Gilded Age and Progressive Era America, 1877-1920
2003,
2006 Senior Seminar: Gilded Age and Progressive Era America, 1877-1920
2003, 2004 Robber Barons and Populists
(one semester hour Intersession
Course)
2002 Antebellum America, 1815-1860
(two semester hours Intersession
Course)
1999, 2003, 2006, 2009 Proseminar: The American South
1990, 1992, 1994, 2003 Proseminar: Gilded Age and Progressive Era
America
1990, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2002,
The American South
2004, 2006, 2009
1995, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2007 Gilded Age and Progressive Era America
1989, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2001,
Nineteenth-Century America
2005, 2008
1988, 1989, 1995, 1998, 2002, Historiography and Historical Methods (Graduate)
2004, 2005 (Twice),
2010
1986 Reading Seminar: Twentieth-Century America
1982-Present Survey of Early American History
1981-Present Survey of Modern American History
CONVENTION ACTIVITIES - ADMINISTRATION
2008 Thirtieth
Mid-America Conference on History,
Convention Coordinator; Chair, Program Committee; and Registrar
Featured Speakers: John Bodnar, Richard Breitman, and Charles P. Roland
2004 Twenty-Sixth Mid-America Conference on History,
Associate Convention Coordinator and Member, Program Committee
1999 Twenty-First Mid-America Conference on History,
Member, Program
Committee
1995 Seventeenth Mid-America Conference on History,
Convention Coordinator and Chair, Program Committee
Featured Speakers: Lloyd Gardner, Bill C. Malone, and Mark E. Neely
1991 Thirteenth Mid-America Conference on History,
Convention Coordinator and Chair, Program Committee
Featured Speakers: Stephen E. Ambrose, James M. McPherson, and H. Wayne
Morgan
CONVENTION ACTIVITIES - CHAIR AND/OR COMMENTATOR
2009 Chair and Commentator, session on
"Individualism and Community in the West"
31st Mid-America Conference on History
2006 Chair, “The Failure of Progressive Era Reform,”
28th Mid-America Conference on History
2005 Chair and Commentator, “The Future of Populist Studies,”
27th Mid-America Conference on History
2004 Commentator, session on “The Urban Revolt: Labor, Race, and
Populism in 1890s Dallas”
108th Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting
2002 Commentator, session on “Populism and Progressivism on the Southern
Plains”
24th Mid-America Conference on History
2001 Chair and Commentator, session on "Prostitution and Intimacy in the
Heartland,"
23rd Mid-America Conference on History
1997 Chair and Commentator, session on "Populist Art.,"
19th Mid-America Conference on History
1996 Chair and Commentator, session on "The Demise of Populism,"
18th Mid-America Conference on History
1995 Chair and Commentator, session on "The Federal Government and
Science in the Gilded Age
and Progressive Era," New England Historical Association Fall Conference
1993 Chair and Commentator, session on "Rural America in the Twentieth
Century,"
15th Mid-America Conference on History
1992 Chair and Commentator, session on "New Perspectives on Populism,"
35th Annual Missouri Valley History Conference
1991 Commentator, session on "Social History: Two Studies,"
69th Southwestern Social Science Association Conference
1989 Chair, session on "Early Responses to Oklahoma as the Promised
Land,"
11th Mid-America Conference on History
1989 Chair and Commentator, session on "Twentieth Century Political
History: Arkansas & Oklahoma,"
67th Southwestern Social Science Association Conference
1987 Chair and Commentator, session on "Journalists and Journalism
During Crisis,"
65th Southwestern Social Science Association Conference
ADDRESSES AND CONVENTION PAPERS
2007 "Who Were the
Texas Populists,"
Paper delivered at 87th Southwestern Social Science
Association Annual Meeting,
Co-Authored with Stacy G. Ulbig
2005 “The Populist Revolt in Cartoons,”
Paper Delivered at 85th Southwestern Social Science Association Annual
Meeting
2003 “Visions of Apocalypse: Populist Images of Late Nineteenth Century
American Development”
Address to Theta Mu Chapter, Phi Alpha Theta, Missouri State University
2002 “The Populist Cartoons of Watson Heston,”
Address at Powers Museum, Carthage, Missouri
1997 “Educating the Masses: Cartoons from the Populist Press of the
1890s,”
Address to Theta Mu Chapter, Phi Alpha Theta, Missouri State University
1992 "The Origins of Populism,"
Address to 117th Kansas State Historical Society Annual Meeting
1992 "Origins of the Bryan-Watson Ticket: The Populist National
Convention of the 1896 and
the Demise
of the People's Party,"
Paper Delivered at 96th Texas State Historical Association Annual
Meeting
1988 "Harrison County Methods: Election Fraud in Late Nineteenth-Century
Texas,"
Paper Delivered at 92nd Texas State Historical Association Annual
Meeting
1985 "Struggle for the Promised Land: Gilded Age Development and the
People's Party
in Oklahoma Territory,"
Paper Delivered at 27th Western Social Science Association Conference
OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
2010
Missouri State University,
Missouri London Program
2009-2010
Journal of Southern History,
Member, Board of Editors
2008-2009
Southern Historical Association,
Membership Committee
2006-2009
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Chair (2008-2009) and Member (2006-2007), Fishel-Calhoun Prize Committee
2005, Missouri State University, Department of History Faculty Senate
Representative
1988-1992
2004-2005 Missouri State University,
2001-2003 Faculty Sponsor, Theta Mu Chapter, Phi Alpha Theta National
Honor Society
1998-2000 Coordinator, Missouri
State University High School History Bowl
1995-1997
2002 Missouri State University,
Interim Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History,
1989 Missouri State University, Faculty Adviser, Golden Key National
Honor Society
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