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1 Jamie Miller Department of History 3518 Posvar Hall University of Pittsburgh, PA, ACADEMIC POSITIONS Postdoctoral Fellow, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 2015 Postdoctoral Fellow, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University, Visiting Assistant Professor, Quinnipiac University, REFEREED PUBLICATIONS Books An African Volk: The Apartheid Regime and its Search for Survival, Oxford University Press, September 2016 Articles and Book Chapters Africanising Apartheid: Identity, Ideology, and State-Building in Post-Independence Africa, Journal of African History, 56, 3, October 2015 Voortrekker or State-Builder?: John Vorster and the Challenges of Leadership in the Apartheid State, in Baba G. Jallow, ed., Studies in African Leadership (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) Yes, Minister: Reassessing South Africa s Intervention in the Angolan Civil War, 1975, Journal of Cold War Studies, 15, 3, Summer 2013; Winner of the African Studies Association Prize for Best Graduate Paper (2013) Things Fall Apart: South Africa and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire, , Cold War History, 11, 2, April 2012; Winner of the Saki Ruth Dockrill Memorial for Cold War History, jointly awarded by the London School of Economics, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and George Washington University (2011) Once Were Warriors: Wilfred Burchett, Robert Manne and the Forgotten History War, The New Critic, 8, September 2008; Republished by request in The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, October 2008 and on Znet, October 2008 Current Projects Energy Dependence: Electricity, Modernity, and Development in Twentieth Century Southern Africa Fusion of environmental, economic, and political history, focusing on how the generation and distribution of electric power shaped South Africa s distinctive form of segregated capitalist modernity Historical Writing in Postcolonial Africa, with Patrick Manning, under review, African Affairs, submitted Jul Historiographical overview of African history as generated in Africa

2 Miller 2 EDUCATION PhD, University of Cambridge, 2014 Dissertation: South Africa in the Cold War, MPhil in Historical Studies, University of Cambridge, 2009 With Distinction Bachelor of Arts (Hons), University of Sydney, 2008 First Class Honours with University Medal, grade of 94, first in year, and highest award by the Faculty of Arts FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES Professional Postdoctoral Fellowship, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Science, University of Pittsburgh, 2015 Bennet Boskey Fellowship in Extra-European History since 1500, Exeter College, Oxford, 2015 (declined) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dickey Center, Dartmouth University, 2015 (declined) Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dalhousie University, 2015 (declined) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Mario Einaudi Center, Cornell University, Graduate African Studies Association Prize for Best Graduate Paper at the ASA Annual Conference, Philadelphia, 2013 Fox International Fellowship, Yale University, George C. Marshall/Baruch Fellowship, 2012 Saki Ruth Dockrill Memorial Prize for best paper at the International Conference on the Cold War, jointly awarded by the London School of Economics, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and George Washington University, 2011 Commonwealth Scholarship Commission Scholarship, Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Bursary, Gurnee Hart Studentship, Jesus College, Cambridge, Eleanor Sophia Wood Travelling Scholarship, University of Sydney, Vice-Chancellor s Research Scholarship, University of Sydney, 2008 Australian Postgraduate Award, Australian Federal Government, 2008 Undergraduate Charles Brunsdon Fletcher Prize for Pacific History, University of Sydney, 2008 Australasian Pioneers Club Scholarship for Best Thesis in Australian History, University of Sydney, 2008 Arts Faculty Honours (History) Scholarship, University of Sydney, 2007 Dean s List of Meritorious Students, University of Sydney, 2006 Outstanding Achievement Scholarship, University of Sydney, 2004 Australian Student s Prize, Australian Federal Government, 2003 Premier s Award, New South Wales State Government, 2003

3 Miller 3 TEACHING University of Pittsburgh, 2015 HIST 1796/AFRCNA 1656 Africa since 1800 HIST 1000 State Building and the Post-Colonial Moment (Capstone Seminar) HIST 1722 History of Modern South Africa HIST 1901 Independent Study: Zambian Foreign and Domestic Policy in Microcosm Cornell University, HIST/GOVT 4373 State-Building and the Post-Colonial Moment Quinnipiac University, HS 361 Africa before 1850 HS 302 Africa since 1850 HS 208 Modern World History University of Sydney (Teaching Assistant), 2008 HSTY 1045 Modern European History University of Sydney Law Society (Tutor), 2007 LAWS 2011 Federal Constitutional Law Lycée Sainte-Croix, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 2003 (Teacher) English Language and Culture COMPETITIVE RESEARCH GRANTS External American Philosophical Society Mellon Franklin Research Grant, 2017 Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa Research Grant, 2016 Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa Conference Grant, 2015 African Studies Program, Summer Research Fellowship, Indiana University, 2014 American Philosophical Society Mellon Franklin Research Grant, 2014 Sir John Plumb Charitable Trust Grant, 2013 Institut Francais d Afrique du Sud Recherche Grant, 2013 Royal Historical Society Research Grant, 2012 Intra-University Sidney Sussex College Graduate Fund, 2012 Bartle Frere Fund, University of Cambridge, 2011 Mary Euphrasia Mosley Fund, University of Cambridge, 2011 Jesus College Doctoral Fund, Smuts Fund, University of Cambridge, 2010 Jesus College Graduate Fund, 2009 Numerous grants from the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge INVITED TALKS AND INTERVIEWS Interview with the Toynbee Prize Foundation for Global History, Harvard University, Sep Interview for PM, The Midday Report, Radio 702 South Africa, Aug Book Conversation with Hermann Giliomee: An African Volk, Protea Book Store, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Nov Book Launch: An African Volk, Kalk Bay Books, Kalk Bay, South Africa, Nov. 2016

4 Miller 4 Book Talk: An African Volk, Instituut vir Eietydse Geskiedenis, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, Oct Book Talk: An African Volk, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Oct Book Talk: An African Volk, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Oct Interview, Blog of the Centre for Imperial and Global History, Sep We are not Europeans : Reimagining Africanness in the Apartheid Regime, co-sponsored by Department of African Studies, Department of History, and War and Peace Studies Program, Ohio University, Athens, OH, Dec Africanising Apartheid: Rethinking Relations Between South Africa and Post-Colonial Africa, Institut Francais d Afrique du Sud, Johannesburg, South Africa, Sept We were ruthlessly left in the lurch : South African and American Collusion in the Angolan Civil War, 1975, Center for the United States and the Cold War at New York University, New York, NY, Oct SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Energy Dependence?: Thinking About South African Modernity, North-Eastern Workshop on Southern Africa, Burlington, VT, Oct Panel Discussant, Transnational Dimensions of Liberation Struggles II: Politics and the Law in a Decolonising Continent, North-Eastern Workshop on Southern Africa, Burlington, VT, Oct An African Volk in the Rearview Mirror, University of Pittsburgh African Studies Program Year of Diversity Event, Feb Africa and Providence have been good to us : The Politics of Development, Cold War Economics Workshop, London School of Economics, London, Dec The Malleability of Racial Categories: Statecraft, Ideology, and the Postcolonial State, African Studies Association annual meeting, San Diego, CA, Nov Panel Chair, African State-Making, Historiography, and Representation in Comparative Perspective, African Studies Association annual meeting, San Diego, CA, Nov Panel Discussant, Sovereignty, Decolonization, and the Death of UN Gen Sec Dag Hammarskjöld: Investigating UN Efforts Against the Katanga Secession, , African Studies Association annual meeting, San Diego, CA, Nov Advocating State-Building: The Marxist Project in Post-Colonial Africa, Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa Conference, Washington, D. C., Oct Just like Rhodesia, But So Much Worse : British Planning for the Exodus of South African Whites after Soweto, Britain and the World Annual Conference, Austin, TX, Apr Thinking about Marxism in Africa, African Studies Association annual meeting, Indianapolis, IN, Nov Africanising Apartheid: Identity, Ideology, and State-Building in Post-Colonial Africa, History Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Sept Panel Chair and Discussant, panel on the Cold War in Southern Africa, Society for the Historians of American Foreign Relations, Lexington, KY, Jun The Outward Policy: John Vorster and the Apartheid State's Quest for Legitimacy in Africa, New Perspectives on Postwar Empires in Africa conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, Apr. 2014

5 Miller 5 The Black Hole of Apartheid History, Remembering Mandela Conference, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT, Jan They Must Get On and Play the Hand Accordingly : Pretoria and the Kissinger Initiative on Rhodesia, 1976, Society for the Historians of American Foreign Relations, Washington, D. C., June 2013 We Cannot be Seen to be Deposing Ian Smith : South Africa and the 1976 Kissinger Initiatives, North-Eastern Workshop on Southern Africa, Burlington, VT, May 2013 The Red and the Black: South African Perceptions of National Security Threats in the Golden Age of Apartheid, International Security Studies colloquium, Yale University, New Haven, CT, Jan Yes, Minister: South Africa and the Angolan Civil War, 1975, African Studies Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Nov We were ruthlessly left in the lurch : Pretoria, Washington, and the Angolan Civil War, London School of Economics IDEAS Cold War Summer School, Trento, Italy, Sept We had not and would not consult with the South Africans on this matter : South African and American Collusion in the Angolan Civil War, , Violence and Conflict Workshop, Cambridge University, Cambridge, May 2012 Archival Research in South Africa, Researching Africa, St. Antony s College, Oxford University, Oxford, Mar Things Fall Apart: South Africa and the Portuguese Coup, , Southern African Historical Society Biennial Conference, Durban, South Africa, June 2011 This Bastion Against Communism, International Conference on the Cold War, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, Apr The View From Pretoria: Reconceptualising the Creation of the Southern African Theatre of the Cold War, Contemporary History Workshop, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Jan SELECTED REVIEWS Chair, H-Diplo roundtable, Andy DeRoche, Kenneth Kaunda, the United States and Southern Africa, Jul Review, H-Diplo roundtable, Nancy Mitchell, Jimmy Carter in Africa, Feb Review, Jeremy Ball, Angola s Colossal Lie: Forced Labor on a Sugar Plantation, , Itinerario, Feb Review, Piero Gleijeses, Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa , H-Diplo roundtable, July 2014, and Africa Spectrum, July 2014 Review, Robert McMahon, ed., The Cold War in the Third World, H-Diplo, Mar Review, Ryan Irwin, Gordian Knot: Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order, H-Diplo roundtable, Sept Review, Carolyn Hamilton, Bernard Mbenga, Robert Ross (eds.), The Cambridge History of South Africa, volume 2, H-Empire, July 2013 Review, Theresa Papenfus, Pik Botha and His Times, Journal of Southern African Studies, 38, 2, June 2012 Review, Krista Johnson and Sean Jacobs (eds.), Encyclopaedia of South Africa, Africa Spectrum, 47, 1, May 2012

6 Miller 6 Review, Sue Onslow (ed.), Cold War in Southern Africa: White Power, Black Liberation, H- Diplo roundtable, Nov Review, Sasha Polakow-Suranksy, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel s Secret Alliance With Apartheid South Africa, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 24, 3, Sept SELECTED COMMENTARY Article, Too Many Still Believe In Klippies And Coke Version Of Apartheid, Huffington Post, Aug. 2017; reprinted by request by Media24, Aug Blogpost, Myth and Geopolitics from Below: Apartheid South Africa and America in the Angolan Civil War, Blog of the Centre for Imperial and Global History, Feb Article, Castro in Africa, The Atlantic, Dec. 2016; reprinted by request in The Namibian, Dec Blogpost, Rethinking the Cold War: Reflections from An African Volk, Still Out In The Cold, Nov Archival overview, Apartheid South Africa and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire, Woodrow Wilson Center, Cold War International History Project, E-Dossier No. 76, Nov Article, History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith s back, Rand Daily Mail online, Sep Article, The Black Hole of Apartheid History, Blog of the Centre for Imperial and Global History, Dec (fifth most read post for the year); republished by request by the History News Network, Dec Blogpost, Research in South African Archives, Archives Made Easy, Apr Other commentary in the London Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the Huffington Post, and The Conversation ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Peer reviewer for Journal of African History, African Studies Review, South African Historical Journal, Journal of Southern African Studies, Diplomatic History, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, Modern American History, Australian Journal of Politics and History, Social Dynamics, Law, Democracy and Development Head Book Reviews Editor for the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Associate Book Reviews Editor for the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS African Studies Association American Historical Association Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction Southern African Historical Society Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations LANGUAGES English (native) French (fluent) Afrikaans (reading knowledge)

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Jamie Miller. Department of History 3518 Posvar Hall University of Pittsburgh, PA,

Jamie Miller. Department of History 3518 Posvar Hall University of Pittsburgh, PA, Jamie Miller Department of History 3518 Posvar Hall University of Pittsburgh, PA, 15213 jmm374@pitt.edu ACADEMIC POSITIONS Postdoctoral Fellow, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University