Vita
Worth Robert Miller
 

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


M
ONOGRAPHS

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