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Dr Gavin Murray-Miller
Reader in Modern European History
School of History, Archaeology and Religion
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
Gavin Murray-Miller is a reader in modern history. In the past, he has held research fellowships at the Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) in Mainz, Germany, the École normale supérieure (ENS) in Paris, the Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) in Sofia, Bulgaria, and the State Academic University for the Humanities (GAUGN) at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. In 2021-2022, he was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Universität Leipzig.
His research has focused on Europe and the Francophone Arab world, with expertise in European political history and North Africa in the long nineteenth century. His work has explored a diverse range of themes, including post-colonial historiography, orientalism, revolutionary governance and democracy, and comparative theories of nationalism and empire. His most recent book Empire Unbound: France and the Muslim Mediterranean was published by Oxford University Press in 2022.
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 empire and transnationalism in the Mediterranean region, with special attention to the encounter between European and Muslim socieities. He is equally engaged in research on European and global radical politics.
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.
Publication
2024
- Murray-Miller, G. 2024. France and Algeria, 1830-1870. In: Andress, D. ed. The Routledge Handbook of French History. Routledge, pp. 385-393.
2023
- Murray-Miller, G. 2023. Europe and its orientalisms. In: Hewitson, M. and Vermeiren, J. eds. 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. 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.
- 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. 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.
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. 2024. France and Algeria, 1830-1870. In: Andress, D. ed. The Routledge Handbook of French History. Routledge, pp. 385-393.
- Murray-Miller, G. 2023. Europe and its orientalisms. In: Hewitson, M. and Vermeiren, J. eds. 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. 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.
- 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. 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.
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.
Research
Research interests
Modern France
The French Colonial Empire
Nationalism and Citizenship Studies
The Global Nineteenth Century
The Age of Revolution and Radical Political Movements
Europe and the Islamic World
Teaching
Teaching subjects include:
Modern European History (nineteenth and tewentieth centuries)
Modern French History
Histories of Empire
Global and Transnational History
Historiography
Biography
Education
Ph.D., University of Virginia (2011)
MA, Louisiana State University (2005)
BA, Hunter College, CUNY (2003)
Associations
Senior Fellow, State Academic University for the Humanities, Moscow Russia (2018 - Present)
Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Advanced Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria (2020)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Leibniz Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Germany (2014)
Pensionnaire étranger, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France (2009)
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg Stipendiat (2006)
Honours and awards
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Research Fellowship (2021), Leipzig University, Germany.
The Centre for Adanced Studies, Postdoctoral Fellow (2020), Sofia, Bulgaria.
State Academic University for the Humanities, Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018), Mossow, Russia. Grant Project: Liberal Values and Traditional Society in Comparative Context (funded by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation)
Appointed Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2017), United Kingdom
The Leibniz Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Postdoctoral Fellowship (2014), Mainz, Germany.
École Normale Supérieure Fellowship (2008), Paris, France.
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Dumas Malone Research Fellowship (2008), United States.
Professional memberships
Society for French Historical Studies (former editorial board member)
Royal Historical Society (fellow)
American Historical Association
Society for The Study of French History
Contact Details
Research themes
Specialisms
- History of empires, imperialism and colonialism
- Modern French History
- Modern European History
- Global History
- Middle Eastern and North African history
