Susan Gilson Miller

 

Professor Emerita, Department of History

University of California, Davis.

Education

  • University of Michigan, Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies, 1976
  • Brandeis University, MA in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, 1964
  • Wellesley College, BA in History, 1963

Books and Edited Books

  • Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa
  • Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021.
  • Morocco From World War II to Independence, Special edition of the Journal of North African Studies, Susan Gilson Miller and Shana Cohen, guest editors. Vol. 19, no. 4, September 2014.
  • A History of Modern Morocco, 1830-2000. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Spanish translation: Madrid, Ediciones Akal. 2015 Chinese translation: PRC, Orient Publishing Center, 2015
  • Finalist, 2014 American Institute of Maghrib Studies L. Carl Brown Biennial Book Prize.
  • Berbers and Others: Beyond Tribe and Nation in the Maghrib. Edited by Susan Gilson Miller and Katherine E. Hoffman, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. Chinese edition: Beijing: Democracy and Construction Press, 2012.
  • The Architecture and Memory of the Minority Quarter of the Muslim Mediterranean City. Edited by Susan Gilson Miller and Mauro Bertagnin. Aga Khan Program on Islamic
  • Architecture, the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Grants, Honors, and Awards

  • Member of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco, elected 2023.
  • MESA (Middle East Studies Association) Annual Mentoring Award, December 2021
  • Leon Carl Brown Book Award, American Institute of Maghrib Studies, (Honorable Mention), 2015
  • Norman Raab Foundation Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust
  • Memorial Museum, 2014
  • Visiting Fellow, St. Edmunds College, University of Cambridge, 2013.
  • Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge, Woolf Institute, Center for Muslim-Jewish Relations, 2013
  • University of California, Davis, Provost Fellowship for Diversity in Teaching, 2012
  • Fred and Ellen Lewis American Joint Distribution Committee Archives Fellowship, 2012

 

Academic Administration

  • Director of Jewish Studies, College of Letters and Science, University of California, Davis, 2019-2020
  • Associate Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 1990-1999
  • Director, Moroccan Studies Program, Harvard University, 1990-2008
  • Executive Director, Center for Social Policy in the Middle East, Brandeis University, 1985-86
  • Executive Director, Middle East Institute for Peace and Development, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, 1982-85

Research Interests

  • The Jews of Muslim Lands; North African History and Historiography; Architecture and Material Culture of the Muslim Mediterranean; Colonial Urbanism; Travel and Migration; Refugees and Humanitarian Relief, Feminist biography.