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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
2012-Present Professor Emeritus,
Missouri State University
1995-2012 Professor, Missouri State University
(Formerly Southwest
Missouri State University)
1990-1995
Associate Professor, Southwest Missouri State University
1987-1990
Assistant Professor, Southwest Missouri State University
1986-1987
Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas A & M University, College Station
1985-1986
Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas A & M University, Commerce
(Formerly East Texas State University)
1984-1985
Lecturer, University of Oklahoma
BOOKS
2011
Populist Cartoons: An Illustrated History of the People’s Party
Movement in the 1890s.
(Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2011)
2001, 1989 A
List of References for the History of the Farmers' Alliance and Populist
Party. 2nd rev. ed.
http://courses.missouristate.edu/bobmiller/Populism/Texts/populism.htm.
Revision of Henry
Clay Dethloff's 1973 volume of the same title (Davis, CA: Agricultural
History Center, 1989)
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://courses.missouristate.edu/bobmiller/Populism/Texts/populism.htm.
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://courses.missouristate.edu/bobmiller/Populism/Texts/populism.htm.
WEBSITE
2001 Populism Website: Overview Essay,
Historiography, Bibliography, Cartoon Presentation, and Primary
Documents.
http://courses.missouristate.edu/bobmiller/Populism/Texts/populism.htm.
ARTICLES
2009
"The Populist Vision: A Roundtable Discussion,"
Kansas History 32, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 18-45.
Editor, Introduction, and Commentary by Gregg Cantrell, Rebecca Edwards,
Robert C. McMath, Jr.,
Charles Postel, William C. Pratt, and Worth Robert Miller.
Reprint:
http://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/2009spring_miller.pdf
2008
"Building a Populist Coalition in Texas, 1892-1896,"
Journal of Southern History 74 no. 2 (May 2008): 255-96.
Co-authored
w/ Stacy G. Ulbig.
Reprint:
http://courses.missouristate.edu/bobmiller/Populism/Texts/populism.htm.
2003 “Educating the Masses: Cartoons from the
Populist Press of the 1890s.” American Nineteenth Century History
4, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 104-119. Reprint:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14664650312331294334
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://courses.missouristate.edu/bobmiller/Populism/Texts/populism.htm.
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://courses.missouristate.edu/bobmiller/Populism/Texts/populism.htm.
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.
Reprint:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/009614429301900403
1993 "A Centennial Historiography of American
Populism."
Kansas History
16, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 54-69.
Reprint:
http://courses.missouristate.edu/bobmiller/Populism/Texts/populism.htm.
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://courses.missouristate.edu/bobmiller/Populism/Texts/populism.htm.
1985 "Frontier Politics: The Bases of Partisan Choice
in Oklahoma Territory, 1890-1904." Chronicles of Oklahoma
62, no. 4 (Winter 1984-85): 429-46.
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
2017-present
Honors Colloquium: Gilded Age and
Progressive Era America
2016-present
Honors Colloquium: The American South
2014-2015
Freshman Honors Seminar
2010
The First British Empire
(Missouri London Program)
2005
American Slavery
(One semester hour Intersession Course)
2004
Graduate Seminar: Gilded Age and
Progressive Era America, 1877-1920
2003-2011
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)
1990-2010
Proseminar: The American South
1990-2003
Proseminar: Gilded Age and
Progressive Era America
1990-present
The American South
1995-present
Gilded Age and Progressive Era America
1989-present
Nineteenth-Century America
1988-2005
Historiography and Historical Methods
(Graduate)
1986
Reading Seminar: Twentieth-Century America
1982-2012
Survey of Early American History
1981-2012
Survey of Modern American History
MASTER’S THESES SUPERVISED
2008
Robert Jeffrey David Wells, "The Communist and The
Altruist: Alcander Longeley’s Newspapers and Communities"
Co-Winner: 2010 Center for Communal Studies Graduate Paper Prize
PhD, Texas Christian University, 2014
2008
Matthew T. Vogeler, "David Rice Atcheson: Southern Spokesman, 1844-1855"
ABD, Auburn University PhD Program
2005
Lynn Michele Lansdown, "The Defeat of the 1914 Missouri Woman Suffrage
Initiative"
Winner: 2006 Lewis E. Atherton Prize for Outstanding Thesis or
Dissertation on Missouri History
ABD, University of Georgia PhD Program
CONVENTION ACTIVITIES - ADMINISTRATION
2012 Thirty-Fourth Mid-America Conference on
History,
Convention Coordinator and Chair, Program Committee
Featured Speakers: Douglas Brinkley, Rami Khouri, and George C. Rable
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
2011
Chair and Commentator, Session on "The Effects of Oil: Crime and Reform"
33rd Mid-America Conference on History
2010
Chair, session on "Post-World War II Southern Labor,"
32nd Mid-America
Conference on History
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
2012
"Struggle for the Promised Land: Oklahoma's Territorial Years"
Address delivered to
Different Shades or Red: Woody Guthrie and
the Oklahoma Experience at 100 Symposium,
Sponsored by GRAMMY Museum, Smithsonian Institution, University of
Tulsa, Brooklyn College,
University of Southern California, and Pennsylvania State University
2010
"Discovering the Populist Vision of Gilded Age American Development
through Cartoons from the People’s Party Press
of the 1890s," Newcastle University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK
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
ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIS ESTABLISHED
2016
Worth Robert Miller Graduate History
Scholarship
University of Oklahoma
2015
Worth Robert Miller Honors College
Scholarship
Missouri State University
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
2006-2010
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Chair (2008-2010) and Member (2006-2008), 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 and 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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