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 Assistant Professor of History
Office: 200 Carson Hall
Office Phone: (603) 646-2096
Fax: (603) 646-3353
Email: Edward.Miller@Dartmouth.edu
Address:
- Department of History
Dartmouth College
6107 Carson Hall
Hanover, NH 03755
Courses
- 2: History of the United States since 1877
- 24: American Foreign Relations to 1898
- 25: American Foreign Relations since 1898
- 26: The Vietnam War
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.
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