James D. Miller

Associate Professor & Chair – Slavery and emancipation in the United States and the Atlantic World; experiences and representations of insanity and asylum life; the history of art brut/outsider art

• B.A. (East Anglia), Ph.D. (Emory)
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Research Interests

• Slavery and Emancipation in the United States and the Atlantic World;
• Experiences and Representations of Insanity and Asylum Life
• The history of art brut/outsider art

Selected Publications

In progress. With Mary Margaret Johnston-Miller. Out of Alabama: The “Civilizing Mission” and the American Colonization of Liberia.

With Mary Margaret Johnston-Miller. “Scottie Wilson’s Canadian Legacy.” Raw Vision 89 (Spring, 2016).

With Mary Margaret Johnston-Miller. “Insider Art: The Asylum Drawings of John Gilmour.” Raw Vision 80 (Fall, 2013).

South by Southwest: planter emigration and identity in the slave south. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002).