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Dr Gavin Murray-miller
Senior Lecturer in Modern European History
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Gavin Murray-Miller’s research has focused on nineteenth-century French politics, colonial North Africa and the origins of the French imperial nation-state. His publications have examined French culture and society in a trans-Mediterranean framework, noting the parallel development of nationalism and imperialism in the formation of French republican society. His work has explored a diverse range of themes, including French modernism, Orientalism, republican ideology and Algerian colonization. His most recent book The Cult of The Modern: Trans-Mediterranean France and The Construction of French Modernity was published by University of Nebraska Press in 2017.
Between 2011 and 2016 he also served as a researcher for the digital humanities project The People of The Founding Era launched by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. The project brings together a combination of biographical and social data contained within the digitized editions of the Founding Fathers collection at the University of Virginia. The prosopographic database covers colonial America and the early republican period, providing a valuable resource for our understanding of the Atlantic world.
His latest work is concerned with themes of European cosmopolitanism and nationalism since the eighteenth century. At present, his research addresses empire and nation building in comparative contexts and the role that encounters with Islam have played in European identity politics during the long nineteenth century. He is equally engaged in research on European radicalism and transnational revolutionary movements, with a particular emphasis on the interrelationship between Europe, the Atlantic world and the Mediterranean.
Gavin's teaching consists of courses on transnational European history from 1789 to the present and revolutionary politics between the French and Russian revolutions in a global context.
Cyhoeddiad
2023
- Murray-Miller, G. 2023. Europe and its orientalisms. In: Europe and the East: Historical Ideas of Eastern and Southeast Europe, 1789-1989. Routledge, pp. 56-75., (10.4324/9781003120131-4)
2022
- Murray-Miller, G. 2022. Mediterranean imaginaries: Europe, Empire, and Islam in the nineteenth century. In: D'Auria, M. and Gallo, F. eds. Mediterranean Europe(s): Rethinking Europe from its Southern Shores. Routledge, pp. 56-75.
- Murray-Miller, G. 2022. Empire unbound: France and the Muslim Mediterranean, 1880-1918. Oxford University Press.
- Murray-Miller, G. 2022. Les réseaux politiques en Afrique du Nord : circulation, diffusion et transferts de 1908 à 1914. Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique 3, pp. 49-60. (10.51185/journals/rhca.2022.0304)
2021
- Murray-Miller, G. 2021. Arab press networks and imperial connectivities from Mediterranean Africa to France in the late 19th century. Istoryia 12(7), article number: 105. (10.18254/S207987840015283-0)
2020
- Murray-Miller, G. 2020. Empire and trans-imperial subjects in the Muslim Mediterranean. Historical Journal 63(4), pp. 958-979. (10.1017/S0018246X1900044X)
- Murray-Miller, G. 2020. War, Republican militarism, and the reimagining of Republican revolution in the Paris commune of 1871. Istoriya 11(4) (10.18254/S207987840009315-5)
- Murray-Miller, G. 2020. Postcolonial history. In: Berger, S., Feldner, H. and Passmore, K. eds. Writing History: Theory and Practice. Bloomsbury, pp. 184-204.
- Murray-Miller, G. 2020. Revolutionary Europe: Politics, community and culture in transnational context, 1775-1922. London: Bloomsbury.
2019
- Murray-Miller, G. 2019. Networks, contact zones and the trans-local dimensions of the imperial Mediterranean. Middle East: Topics and Arguments 13, pp. 44-49. (10.17192/meta.2019.13.8075)
2018
- Murray-Miller, G. 2018. Civilization, modernity and Europe: The making and unmaking of a conceptual unity. History 103(356), pp. 418-433. (10.1111/1468-229X.12614)
- Murray-Miller, G. 2018. Bonapartism in Algeria: empire and sovereignty before the Third Republic. French History 32(2), pp. 249-270. (10.1093/fh/cry005)
2017
- Murray-Miller, G. 2017. The cult of the modern: Trans-Mediterranean France and the construction of French modernity. France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
- Murray-Miller, G. 2017. “Transsredizemnomorskaja Francija (ТРАНССРЕДИЗЕМНОМОРСКАЯ ФРАНЦИЯ)' (France and Algeria: Trans-Mediterranean society). Francuzskij Ezhegodnik (Annuaire d’Études Françaises) 2017, pp. 141-161.
2016
- Murray-Miller, G. 2016. Flâneurs in The Orient: The Colonial Maghrib and the origins of the French Modernist tradition. In: Goldwyn, A. J. and Silverman, R. M. eds. Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development, 1880-1945. Mediterranean Perspectives Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 317-342.
2015
- Murray-Miller, G. 2015. The Paris attacks and France's Republican tradition. History Today 2015(17 Nov)
2014
- Murray-Miller, G. 2014. Neither reformers nor réformés: The construction of French modernity in the Nineteenth Century. Historical Reflections Reflexions Historiques 40(3), pp. 44-67. (10.3167/hrrh.2014.400303)
- Murray-Miller, G. 2014. A conflicted sense of nationality: Napoleon III’s Arab Kingdom and the paradoxes of French multiculturalism. French Colonial History 15(1), pp. 1-37.
- Murray-Miller, G. 2014. Imagining the trans-Mediterranean Republic: Algeria, republicanism and the ideological origins of the French Imperial Nation-State, 1848-1870. French Historical Studies 37(2), pp. 303-330. (10.1215/00161071-2401620)
2012
- Murray-Miller, G. 2012. Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880). In: Fitzpatrick, C. and Tunstall, D. A. eds. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Orientalist Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography Series Vol. 366. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group Publishing, pp. 80-87.
- Murray-Miller, G. 2012. Eugène Fromentin (1820–1876). In: Fitzpatrick, C. and Tunstall, D. A. eds. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Orientalist Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography Series Vol. 366. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group Publishing, pp. 94-99.
- Murray-Miller, G. 2012. Théophile Gautier (1811–1872). In: Fitzpatrick, C. and Tunstall, D. A. eds. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Orientalist Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography Series Vol. 366. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group Publishing, pp. 107-114.
2011
- Murray-Miller, G. 2011. The French Cult of the Modern: Power, Identity, and the Idiom of Newness in Nineteenth-Century France. Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 37(2), pp. 29-49.
2010
- Murray-Miller, G. 2010. A narrative of death and resurrection: emplotment and decadence in Nineteenth-Century French Catholic ideology. ARC: The Journal of The Faculty of Religious Studies 38, pp. 163-175.
2008
- Murray-Miller, G. 2008. In the land of the lotus eaters: travel writing and the ambiguities of Colonial representation in French Algeria, 1830-1870. Peer English: The Journal of New Critical Thinking 3, pp. 55-63.
Articles
- Murray-Miller, G. 2022. Les réseaux politiques en Afrique du Nord : circulation, diffusion et transferts de 1908 à 1914. Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique 3, pp. 49-60. (10.51185/journals/rhca.2022.0304)
- Murray-Miller, G. 2021. Arab press networks and imperial connectivities from Mediterranean Africa to France in the late 19th century. Istoryia 12(7), article number: 105. (10.18254/S207987840015283-0)
- Murray-Miller, G. 2020. Empire and trans-imperial subjects in the Muslim Mediterranean. Historical Journal 63(4), pp. 958-979. (10.1017/S0018246X1900044X)
- Murray-Miller, G. 2020. War, Republican militarism, and the reimagining of Republican revolution in the Paris commune of 1871. Istoriya 11(4) (10.18254/S207987840009315-5)
- Murray-Miller, G. 2019. Networks, contact zones and the trans-local dimensions of the imperial Mediterranean. Middle East: Topics and Arguments 13, pp. 44-49. (10.17192/meta.2019.13.8075)
- Murray-Miller, G. 2018. Civilization, modernity and Europe: The making and unmaking of a conceptual unity. History 103(356), pp. 418-433. (10.1111/1468-229X.12614)
- Murray-Miller, G. 2018. Bonapartism in Algeria: empire and sovereignty before the Third Republic. French History 32(2), pp. 249-270. (10.1093/fh/cry005)
- Murray-Miller, G. 2017. “Transsredizemnomorskaja Francija (ТРАНССРЕДИЗЕМНОМОРСКАЯ ФРАНЦИЯ)' (France and Algeria: Trans-Mediterranean society). Francuzskij Ezhegodnik (Annuaire d’Études Françaises) 2017, pp. 141-161.
- Murray-Miller, G. 2015. The Paris attacks and France's Republican tradition. History Today 2015(17 Nov)
- Murray-Miller, G. 2014. Neither reformers nor réformés: The construction of French modernity in the Nineteenth Century. Historical Reflections Reflexions Historiques 40(3), pp. 44-67. (10.3167/hrrh.2014.400303)
- Murray-Miller, G. 2014. A conflicted sense of nationality: Napoleon III’s Arab Kingdom and the paradoxes of French multiculturalism. French Colonial History 15(1), pp. 1-37.
- Murray-Miller, G. 2014. Imagining the trans-Mediterranean Republic: Algeria, republicanism and the ideological origins of the French Imperial Nation-State, 1848-1870. French Historical Studies 37(2), pp. 303-330. (10.1215/00161071-2401620)
- Murray-Miller, G. 2011. The French Cult of the Modern: Power, Identity, and the Idiom of Newness in Nineteenth-Century France. Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 37(2), pp. 29-49.
- Murray-Miller, G. 2010. A narrative of death and resurrection: emplotment and decadence in Nineteenth-Century French Catholic ideology. ARC: The Journal of The Faculty of Religious Studies 38, pp. 163-175.
- Murray-Miller, G. 2008. In the land of the lotus eaters: travel writing and the ambiguities of Colonial representation in French Algeria, 1830-1870. Peer English: The Journal of New Critical Thinking 3, pp. 55-63.
Book sections
- Murray-Miller, G. 2023. Europe and its orientalisms. In: Europe and the East: Historical Ideas of Eastern and Southeast Europe, 1789-1989. Routledge, pp. 56-75., (10.4324/9781003120131-4)
- Murray-Miller, G. 2022. Mediterranean imaginaries: Europe, Empire, and Islam in the nineteenth century. In: D'Auria, M. and Gallo, F. eds. Mediterranean Europe(s): Rethinking Europe from its Southern Shores. Routledge, pp. 56-75.
- Murray-Miller, G. 2020. Postcolonial history. In: Berger, S., Feldner, H. and Passmore, K. eds. Writing History: Theory and Practice. Bloomsbury, pp. 184-204.
- Murray-Miller, G. 2016. Flâneurs in The Orient: The Colonial Maghrib and the origins of the French Modernist tradition. In: Goldwyn, A. J. and Silverman, R. M. eds. Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development, 1880-1945. Mediterranean Perspectives Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 317-342.
- Murray-Miller, G. 2012. Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880). In: Fitzpatrick, C. and Tunstall, D. A. eds. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Orientalist Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography Series Vol. 366. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group Publishing, pp. 80-87.
- Murray-Miller, G. 2012. Eugène Fromentin (1820–1876). In: Fitzpatrick, C. and Tunstall, D. A. eds. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Orientalist Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography Series Vol. 366. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group Publishing, pp. 94-99.
- Murray-Miller, G. 2012. Théophile Gautier (1811–1872). In: Fitzpatrick, C. and Tunstall, D. A. eds. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Orientalist Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography Series Vol. 366. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group Publishing, pp. 107-114.
Books
- Murray-Miller, G. 2022. Empire unbound: France and the Muslim Mediterranean, 1880-1918. Oxford University Press.
- Murray-Miller, G. 2020. Revolutionary Europe: Politics, community and culture in transnational context, 1775-1922. London: Bloomsbury.
- Murray-Miller, G. 2017. The cult of the modern: Trans-Mediterranean France and the construction of French modernity. France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
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Research interests
Modern France
The French Colonial Empire
Nationalism and Citizenship Studies
The Global Nineteenth Century
The Age of Revolution and Radical Political Movements
European Islam and Multiculturalism
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Courses Taught
Undergraduate Courses
- HS1749: Nations, Empires and Borderlands Since 1789
- HS1887: Europe and the Revolutionary Tradition in the Long Nineteenth Century
- HS1701: Approaches to History
- HS1702: Examining Historical Debate
- HS1801: Dissertation Supervision
Postgraduate Courses
- HST932: Conflict and Community in Modern France
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Associations
Postdoctoral Fellow, Leibniz Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Germany (2014)
École Normale Supérieure, Pensionnaire étranger (2009)
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg Stipendiat (2006)
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- Dissertation Year Fellowship (2009) University of Virginia, School of Arts and Sciences
- École Normale Supérieure Fellowship (2008) ENS, Paris
- Dumas Malone Research Fellowship (2008) The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
- Pre-Dissertation Summer Research Grant (2007) University of Virginia, Department of History
- Graduate Fellowship (2006-2010) University of Virginia, Department of History
- Baden-Württemberg Scholarship (2005) Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
- Graduate Assistantship (2003-2005) Louisiana State University, Department of History
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
Society for French Historical Studies (editorial board)
