Christopher R. Miller

CHRISTOPHER R. MILLER

620 S. Newbury Pl. Arlington Heights, IL 60005

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EDUCATION

Yale University, New Haven, CT

PhD candidate in History. Dissertation “A Lost Chance? The Soviet Union’s Response to China’s Economic Reforms, " examines how Moscow interpreted the 'Reform and Opening' program begun under Deng Xiaoping, and assesses the Soviet Union's attempt to learn from China's success. Dissertation committee: John Gaddis, Paul Kennedy, Adam Tooze.

Research languages: Russian, Turkish, Spanish

Yale University, New Haven, CT

MA in International History received Dec. 2011. M. Phil received Dec. 2012.

Examination fields, passed with distinction in May 2012:

The US and the World, 1776-present, with John Gaddis

Economic History: Methods and Historiography, with Naomi Lamoreaux

Economic Policies of the Great Powers, 1850-present, with Paul Kennedy

New Economic School, Moscow, Russia

Visiting graduate student while conducting dissertation research,

Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Visiting graduate student, summer 2010 and pleted Turkish language program and dissertation research.

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Honors B. A. in History. Senior thesis, The Bank of England’s Response to Financial Panic in the 19th Century, awarded highest honors and earned a Thomas T. Hoopes Prize from Harvard College; as well as the History Department’s Colton Prize for excellence on a senior thesis. Graduated in 2009.

MAJOR FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

International Security Studies, Yale University, Graduate Research Fellowship, funds dissertation

research, 2012

American Research Institute in Turkey, funded language study, 2011

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, funded language study in Istanbul, Turkey,

summer 2010

Brady Johnson Grand Strategy Program, Summer Fellowship, funded travel and research, 2010

Tobin Project, Democracy and Markets Graduate Fellowship, funded archival research in Boston,

MA, 2010

Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Research Fellowship,

funded archival research in Britain, June-Jul. 2008

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

“Turkey and the Arab Spring,” May, 2012. Guest speakers included Turkey’s Ambassador Ertuğrul

Apakan, German Marshall Fund Transatlatic Fellow Joshua Walker, and Jackson Institute Senior Fellow Alexander Evans. Yale University.

“Contours of international history: A Graduate student workshop,” Dec., 2011. Included

participants from Harvard, Columbia, Yale, and Cornell. Hosted at Yale University.

“Tobin Project Graduate Research Forum,” , Yale University.

PRESENTATIONS

“The Moscow Consensus: Soviet Development Thought and the End of Decolonization,”

Annual Conference of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2013

“Outgrowing the Cold War: Anti-imperialist economics in China, India, and Turkey, 1920-

1970,” Conference on ‘Negotiating Independence,’ Cambridge University, May 2013

“From Foreign Concessions to Export Processing Zones: Decolonization and Foreign

Investment in 20th century Asia,” Harvard International History Conference, March 2013

“Economic integration and the end of the Cold War,” International Security Studies Colloquium,

Yale University, April 10, 2012.

“Trends in international trade during the post-war era,” Yale University, Tobin Project

Democracy and Markets Forum, Feb. 24, 2012.

“Why globalization happened: An economic history of the Cold War’s end,” Yale University,

Tobin Project Democracy and Markets Forum, April 2011.

“Money as a public good: The evolution of England’s monetary institutions, ,” Yale

British Studies Colloquium, spring 2010.

“Liquidity as a public good: The state and the money market in Victorian England,” Harvard

University, Conference on the History of Capitalism, November, 2008.

TEACHING AND ADVISING

Teaching Fellow, “The Cold War,” Yale University, Prof. John Gaddis, fall 2011

Teaching Fellow, “Eastern Europe since 1914,” Yale University, Prof. Timothy Snyder, spring 2012

Research Advisor, The History Project. Advised applicants on research design, 2011-present