Carman Irwin Miller (born 1940) is a military historian and former Dean of Arts at McGill University in Montreal.[2]
Miller was born in Moser River, Nova Scotia, the son of Marie Evangeline and Irwin Charles Miller.[3] He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1960 and a Bachelor of Education degree in 1961 from Acadia University. Miller received a Master of Arts degree in 1964 from Dalhousie University and a Ph.D. in 1970 from the University of London. He started teaching at McGill University in 1967 as a lecturer in the Department of History. He became an assistant professor in 1971 and associate professor in 1977. He was chairman of the department from 1978 to 1981.[4]
His research focuses on Canada's military participation in the British Empire. He is also a specialist on Canada's contributions in the South African War.[4]
His book A Knight in Politics: A Biography of Sir Frederick Borden was awarded the 2011 C.P. Stacey Prize for "distinguished publications on the twentieth-century military experience."
He is married to Pamela J. Miller, the well-known Osler scholar, and their son is Marc Miller.
Bibliography
- The Canadian career of the Fourth Earl of Minto: the education of a viceroy (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1980)
- Painting the Map Red: Canada and the South African War, 1899–1902 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993)
- Canada's little war
- A Knight in Politics: A Biography of Sir Frederick Borden (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010)
References
- ^ https://mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/new-indigenous-services-minister-determined-to-see-progress/
- ^ "The art of being Dean". McGill Reporter.
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- ^ a b "McGill Teaching and Research". McGill University.