Jaroslav Miller

Jaroslav Miller ( born January 8, 1971 in Olomouc) is a Czech historian and since 2012 professor at the Palacky University in Olomouc Czech. He deals with problems of urban design, the history of political thought and the Czech and Slovak exile.

Life

Jaroslav Miller studied history and philology at the Palacký University of Olomouc ( disciplines: history, Russian philology and literature, English Philology and Literature ) at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and at Lady Margaret Hall at the English University of Oxford. Among his teachers were Josef Jařab, Ralf Dahrendorf, Stephen Greenblatt and Robert JW Evans.

Miller completed a number of study visits to universities and research institutes in Canada, Hungary, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Australia. Twice he was elected fellows of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2006 in Marburg and in 2010 in Münster) and the U.S. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2004 and 2010 in Wolfenbüttel ). In 2008, he received a scholarship from the Fulbright Program at Georgia College and State University. In the years 2010/11 he was a visiting professor at the University of Western Australia in Perth. In 2012 he was appointed representatives of the Fulbright program in the Czech Republic by the Ambassador of the United States. In the same year he was further appointed as professor of history and currently represents the position of Head of the Department of History at the Philosophical Faculty of Palacky University in Olomouc.

Miller received, among others 2005 " R. John Rath Prize for Best Study in Habsburg History " and the " Best Urban History Monograph Award ". In 2008 he was the British publisher Ashgate out his monograph Urban Societies in East Central Europe, 1500-1700. In 2010 he published in New York City and Budapest together with László Kontler the monograph Friars, Nobles and Burghers - Sermons, Images and Prints: Studies of Culture and Society in Early -Modern Europe.

2013 he applied for the post of rector -, Palacký University for the period from 2014 to 2018.

Publications

  • Urban Societies in East - Central Europe, 1500-1700. Ashgate, Aldershot / New York City, 2008.
  • The Palatine Myth: Fridrich V and the image of the Czech war in early Stuart England. ARGO, Prague 2004.
  • The deferred Birth of Leviathan: Crisis of the Stuart monarchy, 1603-1641. ARGO, Prague 2006.
  • Closed Society and its Enemies: A city in Central Eastern Europe ( 1500-1700 ). Lidové noviny Verlag, Prague, 2006.
  • John Barclay - Argenis: Intellectual foundations of European absolutism. Lidové noviny Verlag, Prague, 2009.
  • László Kontler, Jaroslav Miller: Friars, Nobles and Burghers - Sermons, Images and Prints: Studies in Culture and Society in Early Modern Europe. CEU Press, Budapest / New York City, 2010.
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