Peter N. Miller (born December 13, 1964) is an American historian who is President of the

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. He was a 1998

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. Much of his scholarship has centered on the

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and

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, including the practices of

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within wider scholarly erudition; and he is a particular authority on the thought and influence of the French savant,

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1 December 1580 – 24 June 1637), often known simply as Peiresc, or by the Latin form of his name, Peirescius, was a French astronomer, antiquary and savant, who maintained a wide correspondence with scienti ...

(1580–1637). From 1998 to 2001, he was an assistant professor at the

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. From 2008 to 2023, he was dean of

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. He attended the

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, a Modern Orthodox Jewish day school in New York City. He earned his bachelor's degree ''magna cum laude'' from

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, his master's from

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and his PhD at the

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Works

*''Sovereignty and Obligation in Republican England: political thought in the engagement controversy'', Harvard University, 1986 *''From Community to Individual Rights: English political thought and imperial crisis 1750–1776'', PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990 * * * * *

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Peter N. 1964 births Writers from New York City Bard College faculty MacArthur Fellows 20th-century American Jews Ramaz School alumni University of Maryland, College Park faculty Harvard University alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge Living people Historians from New York (state) 21st-century American Jews