Biography
MONTSERRAT MILLER (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon) is a professor of history specializing in Modern European, Spanish, and food history. Her research has largely been focused on nineteenth and twentieth century Catalonia, on food markets, gender, and the history of consumerism. That work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’ Universities, by the West Virginia Humanities Council, by a United States Fulbright Commission Fellowship, and by the American Association of University Women. Her book, Feeding Barcelona 1714-1975: Public Market Halls, Social Networks, and Consumer Culture, was published by Louisiana State University Press and won Phi Alpha Theta’s Best First Book Award. Her work has been published in English, Catalan, and Spanish. She is a Distinguished Drinko Fellow and the recipient of numerous teaching prizes, including the Hedrick Outstanding Faculty Award at Marshall and the West Virginia Professor of the Year Award. In 2020, she won the Distinguished Faculty Service Award at Marshall, and in 2021 she won the Carolyn B. Hunter Faculty Service Award from the Marshall University Alumni Association. Professor M Professor Miller’s most recent article, “Public Control over Private Trade: Barcelona’s Market-hall Based Food Retailing System,” will appear in Digestible Governance: Gastrocracy and Spanish Foodways (Vanderbilt University Press, Fall 2024). She also serves as the Executive Director of the John Deaver Drinko Academy for American Political Institutions and Civic Culture.