Assistant Professor of History
Office: 200 Carson Hall
Office Phone: (603) 646-2096
Fax: (603) 646-3353
Email: Edward.Miller@Dartmouth.edu
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Edward Miller teaches courses on American Foreign Relations, Vietnamese History and the Vietnam War. He comes to Dartmouth from Harvard University, where he completed his doctoral studies in US and International History in 2004. Professor Miller has taught previously at Harvard and at Bentley College, and he is a 1991 graduate of Swarthmore College.
Professor Miller's main research interests include the History of US-East Asian relations and the Vietnam War. He has lived and worked in Taiwan, Vietnam and Singapore, and traveled in many other countries in East and Southeast Asia. His current project, a book entitled Grand Designs: The making and unmaking of America's alliance with Ngo Dinh Diem, 1954-1963, re-interprets the origins of the US intervention in the Vietnam War by examining the interactions between American and Vietnamese ideas about nation building. Miller uses materials collected from Vietnamese, French and American archives to show that US nation building efforts in South Vietnam during the 1950s and early 1960s were frequently frustrated not only by America's communist enemies, but also by its South Vietnamese allies. He also revises the conventional view of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, and shows how Diem's determination to pursue his own vision for the modernization of South Vietnam led eventually to his undoing.
In his teaching and research at Dartmouth, Professor Miller will continue to explore the History of US Foreign Relations from an international perspective, with particular attention to the ways in which American ventures abroad-whether official or informal, public or private, violent or peaceful-have been affected by the convictions and actions of non-Americans.
