Edward Miller

Professor Miller is currently at work on a book-length study of the Vietnam War in the Mekong Delta that re-interprets the conflict there as a civil war.  That study draws on archival sources, interviews, and other materials collected in both the United States and Vietnam.  Prof. Miller is also co-editing a volume of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the Vietnam War.

In addition to his scholarship on the Vietnam War, Prof. Miller is interested in the digital humanities and especially in the application of digital technology to the field of oral history.  He is the founder and director of the Dartmouth Digital History Initiative, a project that is developing data visualization tools for use with oral history archives.  He is also a co-founder of the Dartmouth Vietnam Project, an oral history project that trains Dartmouth undergraduate students to interview older members of the Dartmouth community about their experiences and memories of the Vietnam War era.

Prof. Miller is engaged in several public history projects connected to the Vietnam War.  He previously worked as an advisor on Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's documentary film "The Vietnam War" (2017) and also advised the curators of the U.S. National Archives' "Remembering Vietnam" Exhibit (2017-2019).  In Vietnam, he consulted on the design of a museum exhibit that opened in 2018 at Independence Palace in Ho Chi Minh City, one of the most-visited public history sites in Vietnam.

At Dartmouth College, Prof. Miller teaches courses on the Vietnam War, oral history, the history of development, and the Cold War.  He is also the designer and faculty director for Developing Vietnam, a new Dartmouth foreign study program in Vietnam.  This program, which will run for the first time during the fall term and December winterim of 2022, is part of Dartmouth's partnership with Fulbright University Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City.  Prof. Miller has supported Fulbright University since its founding in 2016 as a member of its Board of Trustees (2017-2019) and as an advisor to its senior leaders.