Jaroslav Miller

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Jaroslav Miller (2013)

Jaroslav Miller (born January 8, 1971 in Šumperk ) is a Czech historian and has been a professor at Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, since 2012 . He deals with problems of urban planning , the history of political thought and Czech and Slovak exile.

Life

Jaroslav Miller studied history and philology at the Palacký University of Olomouc (subjects: history, Russian philology and literature, English philology and literature), at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and with Lady Margareth Hall at the University of Oxford in England . His teachers included Josef Jařab , Ralf Dahrendorf , Stephen Greenblatt and Robert JW Evans.

Miller completed a number of study visits to universities and science institutes in Canada , Hungary , the United States , the United Kingdom , Germany and Australia . He has received two scholarships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2006 in Marburg and 2010 in Münster ) and the US Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2004 and 2010 in Wolfenbüttel ). In 2008 he received a scholarship from the Fulbright Program at Georgia College and State University . In 2010/11 he was visiting professor at the University of Western Australia in Perth . In 2012 he was appointed representative of the Fullbright Program in the Czech Republic by the Ambassador of the United States . In the same year he was appointed professor of history and currently holds the position of head of the chair of history at the Philosophical Faculty of Palacký University in Olomouc.

Miller received the “R. John Rath Prize for Best Study in Habsburg History ”and the“ Best Urban History Monograph Award ”. In 2008 he published his monograph Urban Societies in East Central Europe, 1500–1700 for the British publisher Ashgate . In 2010 he published the monograph Friars, Nobles and Burghers - Sermons, Images and Prints: Studies of Culture and Society in Early-Modern Europe in New York City and Budapest together with László Kontler .

In 2013 he applied for the post of rector of Palacký University for the 2014 to 2018 term.

Publications

  • Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500-1700. Ashgate, Aldershot / New York City 2008.
  • The Palatinate Myth: Frederick V and the Image of the Czech War in early Stuart England. ARGO, Prague 2004.
  • The Postponed Birth of Leviathan: The Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy, 1603–1641. ARGO, Prague 2006.
  • Closed society and its enemies: A city in Central and Eastern Europe (1500–1700). Lidové noviny publishing house, Prague 2006.
  • John Barclay - Argenis: Intellectual Sources of European Absolutism. Lidové noviny publishing house, Prague 2009.
  • László Kontler , Jaroslav Miller: Friars, Nobles and Burghers - Sermons, Images and Prints: Studies in Culture and Society in Early Modern Europe. CEU Press, Budapest / New York City 2010.

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personal data
SURNAME Miller, Jaroslav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Šumperk , Czech Republic