Edward Miller | Faculty Directory
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Edward Miller
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Associate Professor
Academic Appointments
Chair, Department of Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages
Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies
Edward Miller is a historian, teacher, and digital humanist. His research and teaching focus on Modern Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and oral history.
His scholarship explores the international and transnational dimensions of the Vietnam War and is based on research in archives in Vietnam, Europe, and the United States. His
publications include
Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam
(Harvard, 2013),
The Vietnam War: A Documentary Reader
(Wiley, 2016), and Volume I of
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
(Cambridge, 2025).
Professor Miller is currently at work on a book-length study of the Vietnam War
in the Mekong Delta that re-interprets the conflict in that region as a civil war. That study draws on archival sources, interviews, and other materials collected in Vietnam, France, and the United States.
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 founding faculty director for
Developing Vietnam
, a Dartmouth foreign study program in Vietnam. This program, which runs annually in December each year, 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.
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Contact
Edward.G.Miller@dartmouth.edu
6-2096
Carson Hall, Room C204
HB 6107
Department(s)
History
Center(s)
The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
Education
B.A. Swarthmore College, 1991
M.A. University of Michigan, 1997
Ph.D. Harvard University, 2004
.
Professor Miller is an adopted member of the Dartmouth College Class of 1964.
Areas of Expertise
The Vietnam War
/
Modern Vietnamese History
/
The U.S. and the World
/
oral history
/
digital humanities
Selected Publications
EDITED VOLUME:
Edward Miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, eds.
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War. Volume I: Origins
(Cambridge University Press, 2025).
BOOK CHAPTER:
Edward Miller, "Past Imperfect: Peacemaking, Legitimacy, and Reconciliation in US-Vietnam Relations, 1975-2020." Borje Ljunggren and David H. Perkins, eds.,
Vietnam: Navigating a Rapidly Changing Economy, Society and Political Order
(Harvard University Asia Center, 2024).
BOOK:
Edward Miller,
Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam
(
Harvard University Press, 2013).
DOCUMENT READER:
Edward Miller,
The Vietnam War: A Documentary Reader
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2016).
JOURNAL ARTICLE:
Edward Miller,
"Religious Revival and the Politics of Nation Building: Reinterpreting the 1963 'Buddhist crisis' in South Vietnam,"
(
Modern Asian Studies
, August 2014).
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DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECTS
Professor Miller is
the founding director of the
Dartmouth Vietnam Project
(DVP), a student-driven oral history program which documents the memories and experiences of members of the Dartmouth community who lived through the Vietnam War era. The DVP has recorded over 160 interviews with military veterans, antiwar activists,
journalists, government officials, healthcare workers, aid experts, and refugees.
He is also the director of the
Dartmouth Digital History Initiative (DDHI)
, a digital humanities project that is developing new tools and methods for encoding and visualizing data contained in oral history interviews.
Click here
to try out a demonstration version of the DDHI's data visualization viewer!
Photo Gallery
On the Mekong River, Ben Tre province, Vietnam, December 2013. (Photo: Nguyen Nam)
The Ham Luong River, a branch of the Mekong, Ben Tre, VIetnam. (Photo: E. Miller)
The Ben Tre province musuem. Prior to 1975, this was the official residence of the Ben Tre province chief. (Photo: E. Miller)
At the Bien Hoa Military Cemetary for ARVN soldiers, August 1975. (photo: J. Picard)
Graves of fallen ARVN soldiers, Bien Hoa Military Cemetary, August 2015. (photo: E. Miller)
At the Bayon Temple, Angkor Thom, Cambodia, Juy 2015. (Photo: Sean Miller)
On Ha Long Bay, northern Vietnam, December 2015. (photo: P. Schaefer)
Courses
HIST 26: The Vietnam War
Developing Vietnam (Foreign Study Program in Ho Chi Minh City)
HIST 10.03: The Dartmouth Vietnam Project: Learning Oral History in a Digital Age
HIST 25.3: The United States and the World since 1945
HIST 96: Empires, Imperialism and the United States
HIST 96/AMES 91: Asia, the Middle East and the Cold War
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Related Links
Click here to visit Prof. Miller's author page on Amazon.com.
Click here to download a copy of Prof. Miller's 2014 article on the "Buddhist Crisis" of 1963 in South Vietnam.
Click here to listen to Prof. Miller 2013 interview on NPR's "Here and Now" about John F. Kennedy and Vietnam.
Skip to main content
Edward Miller
|
Associate Professor
Academic Appointments
Chair, Department of Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages
Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies
Edward Miller is a historian, teacher, and digital humanist. His research and teaching focus on Modern Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and oral history.
His scholarship explores the international and transnational dimensions of the Vietnam War and is based on research in archives in Vietnam, Europe, and the United States. His
publications include
Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam
(Harvard, 2013),
The Vietnam War: A Documentary Reader
(Wiley, 2016), and Volume I of
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War
(Cambridge, 2025).
Professor Miller is currently at work on a book-length study of the Vietnam War
in the Mekong Delta that re-interprets the conflict in that region as a civil war. That study draws on archival sources, interviews, and other materials collected in Vietnam, France, and the United States.
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 founding faculty director for
Developing Vietnam
, a Dartmouth foreign study program in Vietnam. This program, which runs annually in December each year, 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.
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Contact
Edward.G.Miller@dartmouth.edu
6-2096
Carson Hall, Room C204
HB 6107
Department(s)
History
Center(s)
The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
Education
B.A. Swarthmore College, 1991
M.A. University of Michigan, 1997
Ph.D. Harvard University, 2004
.
Professor Miller is an adopted member of the Dartmouth College Class of 1964.
Areas of Expertise
The Vietnam War
/
Modern Vietnamese History
/
The U.S. and the World
/
oral history
/
digital humanities
Selected Publications
EDITED VOLUME:
Edward Miller and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, eds.
The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War. Volume I: Origins
(Cambridge University Press, 2025).
BOOK CHAPTER:
Edward Miller, "Past Imperfect: Peacemaking, Legitimacy, and Reconciliation in US-Vietnam Relations, 1975-2020." Borje Ljunggren and David H. Perkins, eds.,
Vietnam: Navigating a Rapidly Changing Economy, Society and Political Order
(Harvard University Asia Center, 2024).
BOOK:
Edward Miller,
Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam
(
Harvard University Press, 2013).
DOCUMENT READER:
Edward Miller,
The Vietnam War: A Documentary Reader
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2016).
JOURNAL ARTICLE:
Edward Miller,
"Religious Revival and the Politics of Nation Building: Reinterpreting the 1963 'Buddhist crisis' in South Vietnam,"
(
Modern Asian Studies
, August 2014).
+ View more
DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECTS
Professor Miller is
the founding director of the
Dartmouth Vietnam Project
(DVP), a student-driven oral history program which documents the memories and experiences of members of the Dartmouth community who lived through the Vietnam War era. The DVP has recorded over 160 interviews with military veterans, antiwar activists,
journalists, government officials, healthcare workers, aid experts, and refugees.
He is also the director of the
Dartmouth Digital History Initiative (DDHI)
, a digital humanities project that is developing new tools and methods for encoding and visualizing data contained in oral history interviews.
Click here
to try out a demonstration version of the DDHI's data visualization viewer!
Photo Gallery
On the Mekong River, Ben Tre province, Vietnam, December 2013. (Photo: Nguyen Nam)
The Ham Luong River, a branch of the Mekong, Ben Tre, VIetnam. (Photo: E. Miller)
The Ben Tre province musuem. Prior to 1975, this was the official residence of the Ben Tre province chief. (Photo: E. Miller)
At the Bien Hoa Military Cemetary for ARVN soldiers, August 1975. (photo: J. Picard)
Graves of fallen ARVN soldiers, Bien Hoa Military Cemetary, August 2015. (photo: E. Miller)
At the Bayon Temple, Angkor Thom, Cambodia, Juy 2015. (Photo: Sean Miller)
On Ha Long Bay, northern Vietnam, December 2015. (photo: P. Schaefer)
Courses
HIST 26: The Vietnam War
Developing Vietnam (Foreign Study Program in Ho Chi Minh City)
HIST 10.03: The Dartmouth Vietnam Project: Learning Oral History in a Digital Age
HIST 25.3: The United States and the World since 1945
HIST 96: Empires, Imperialism and the United States
HIST 96/AMES 91: Asia, the Middle East and the Cold War
+ View more
Related Links
Click here to visit Prof. Miller's author page on Amazon.com.
Click here to download a copy of Prof. Miller's 2014 article on the "Buddhist Crisis" of 1963 in South Vietnam.
Click here to listen to Prof. Miller 2013 interview on NPR's "Here and Now" about John F. Kennedy and Vietnam.