SHAWN WILLIAM MILLER Associate Professor Department of History 2142 Joseph F. Smith Building Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 Phone: (801) 422-3425 Email:
[email protected] Updated December 2018 EDUCATION Columbia University, New York City, New York Doctor of Philosophy, History, February 1997 Distinguished Dissertation, 1997 Emphasis: Latin America, Brazil, Environment; Herbert S. Klein, advisor Minor: Colonial U.S; Richard L. Bushman, advisor Master of Arts, History, May 1992 Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah Bachelor of Arts, History, May 1990 ACADEMIC POSITIONS Brigham Young University Associate Dean, Research, College of Family Home and Social Sciences, 2012- 2015 Department Chair, Department of History, 2007-2010 Associate Chair, Department of History, 2003-2005 Associate Professor, Department of History, 2003- Assistant Professor, 1997-2003 Mesa State College, Grand Junction, CO Lecturer, Fall 1996 Drew University, Madison, NJ Adjunct Lecturer, Spring 1994 CURRENT RESEARCH Books Panamericana: Bridges and Walls along the Long Unfinished Pan-American Highway A Mobile Commons: Public Transportation in an Urbanizing Latin America PUBLICATIONS Books The Street is Ours: Community, the Car, and the Nature of Public Space in Rio de Janeiro. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 345 pp. An Environmental History of Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 257 pp. Awarded the 2008 Melville Book Prize for the best book on environmental history by the Conference on Latin American History. In Korean: Title 오래된 신세계 다음 단계의 문명을 위하여 [The Old New World: Tropical American Civilization’s Next Stage] Publisher: 너머북스 [Neomeobugseu], 2013. In Chinese. Cambridge University Press and JianSu People’s Publishing House, forthcoming July 2019.