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PATRICK B. MILLER

PATRICK B. MILLER. is the author of The Playing Fields of American Culture: Athletics and Higher Education, 1850-1945 (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) and co-author (with David K. Wiggins) of The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport (University of Illinois Press, 2003). Miller has edited The Sporting World of the Modern South and co-edited The Civil Rights Movement Revisited: Critical Perspectives on the Struggle for Racial Equality in the United States. His articles on cultural history and race relations have appeared in the Journal of Sport History, History of Education Quarterly, and American Studies, among other journals.
Miller has been a scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and has held fellowships from the Spencer Foundation (National Academy of Education) and the Smithsonian Institution. During the 1998-99 academic year, he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Germany (University of Münster). In 2003, he was a Fulbright Scholar based at the University of Bayreuth. He is co-editor of the book series, “The African American Intellectual Heritage,” published by University of Notre Dame Press, and participates in the Organization of American Historians’ Distinguished Lecturer program.


Books:
Miller--Civil Rights Movement Revisited Miller--Sporting World of the Modern South Miller--Unlevel Playing Field Miller-Sport and the Color Line