Kerby Alonzo Miller (born December 30, 1944) is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

and emeritus professor at

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...

. He is known for his works on Irish immigration to and identity in the United States.

Life

Miller graduated from

Pomona College Pomona College ( ) is a private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalism in the United States, Congregationalists ...

, and from

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

, with an MA and PhD in 1976. He is a visiting researcher at

Queen's University Belfast The Queen's University of Belfast, commonly known as Queen's University Belfast (; abbreviated Queen's or QUB), is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The university received its charter in 1845 as part of ...

. He has argued extensively that historian Richard J. Jensen's claims about

anti-Irish sentiment Anti-Irish sentiment, also Hibernophobia, is bigotry against the Irish people or individuals. It can include hatred, oppression, persecution, as well as simple discrimination. Generally, it could be bigotry against people from the island of Ire ...

in America were inaccurate. Miller collected and transcribed over decades hundreds of letters from Irish immigrants in America. The letters range in date from the late 1600s to the 1950s. He deposited transcripts of these letters at the Moore Institute, University of Galway to be made available on a searchable database, Imirce.

Awards

* 1986

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes () are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fo ...

in History finalist * 1986 Theodore Saloutos Award * 1986

Merle Curti Award The Merle Curti Award is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American social and/or American intellectual history. It is named in honor of Merle Curti (1897–1996). A committee of 5 members of the Organ ...

from the

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* 2002 Distinguished Lecturer by the

* 2004 James S. Donnelly Prize for ''Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan''

Works

Chapters

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Books

* * * * * ''Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America'' (Washington, DC, 1994), * (reprint 1988 )

References

External links

Kerby Miller Papers
at Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University Special Collections 1944 births Pomona College alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Missouri faculty Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Historians from California American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub