Education
Professor Miller studied history and philology in Olomouc (Palacký University), Budapest (Central European University) and Oxford (University of Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall).
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Professor Miller studied history and philology in Olomouc (Palacký University), Budapest (Central European University) and Oxford (University of Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall).
Professor Manager He focuses on urban studies, the history of political thought and lately also questions of Czechoslovakian and Slovak exile. He has taken part in many long-term fellowships at universities and scientific institutions in Canada, Hungary, United States of America, Great Britain, Germany and Australia. He was twice appointed a fellow of the German scientific Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2006 in Marburg, 2010 in Münster) and the American Andrew West. Mellon Foundation (2004, 2010 Wolfenbüttel).
In 2008 he was a Fulbright Fellow at Georgia College and State University.
During the 2010-2011 academic year, he held a Guest Professorship at the University of Western Australia in Perth. In 2012, the Ambassador of the United States of America appointed him a Fulbright Program Ambassador to the Czechoslovakian Republic.
In the same year he was appointed Professor of History. In 2008 the British publishing house Ashgate published his monograph Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500–1700.
In 2010 he published in New York and Budapest (together with László Kontler) the monograph Friars, Nobles and Burghers – Sermons, Images and Prints: Studies of Culture and Society in Early-Modern Europe.
On 16 October 2013 he was elected as the Rector of Palacký University for the period 2014-2018. His term began on 1 February 2014.