
Dr Gavin Murray-Miller
Senior Lecturer in Modern European History (Study Leave 2021/2)
School of History, Archaeology and Religion
- murray-millerg@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 6715
- 4.38, John Percival Building
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I will be on research leave during the academic year of 2021-2022
Gavin Murray-Miller is a senior lecturer 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. He is currently 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 Revolutionary Europe was published by Bloomsbury in 2020.
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.
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
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
Speaking engagements
- "Waging War and Making Peace as a 'Muslim Power': European Empire and the First World War,” University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy. 24 June 2020.
- "The Trans-Imperial Convergence: Ottoman Exiles, North Africa and How Paris Became a Nodal City in Debates Over Islamic and Arab Modernization in The Early Twentieth Century.” Twelfth Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History, Tallinn University, Estonia. 29 June 2019.
- “An Empire Unbound: Islam, Ottomans and Trans-Imperial Subjects in Nineteenth-Century French North Africa." Global and Transnational History Seminar Series, University of East Anglia, Norwich. 21 November 2018.
- "Geographies of Radicalism: Rethinking the Bounds of Global Solidarity in the Long Nineteenth Century," Keynote lecture, GAUGN, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. 3 September 2018.
- "France and the Mediterranean Imaginary in the Nineteenth Century," Istituto Italiano Studi Filosofici, Naples. 4 July 2018.
- "Bonapartism in Algeria." Society for the Study of French History, Annual Conference. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. 26 June 2017.
- "Outremer Europe: From Imperial Peripheries to a Global European History." Eigth Annual Symposium for the Research Network of the History of the Idea of Europe. University of East Anglia, Norwich. 14 June 2017.
- “Muslim Empire or Muslim Nation?: Colonial Islam and the Mediterranean World, 1850-1914.” Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. University of Exeter. 15 December 2016.
- "Thinking Through The Imperial Nation-State: Nationalism and The Imperial Turn in The Twenty-First Century.” Russian State Academic University for the Humanities. Moscow. 11 May 2016.
- “Reconciling Occident and Orient in Colonial Bosnia: The Habsburg ‘Civilizing Mission’ and Bosnian Islam, 1878-1918.” Views on “Savage Europe” Research Symposium. Cardiff University. 7 May 2016.
- “Teaching National Histories in a Global Age: Diversifying Historical Narratives in The Classroom.” Teaching History in The Twenty-First Century Research Workshop. Institute of Historical Research. London. 19 March 2016.
- "Nationalizing Empires, Nationalizing Muslims: Islam and the Imperial Nation-State in Nineteenth-Century Europe.” Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers Workshop. Institute of Historical Research. London. 8 February 2016.
- "Civilization, Modernity and Europe: The Making and Unmaking of a Conceptual Unity.” 22nd International Conference of Europeanists, Council of European Studies. Sciences Po. Paris. 9 July 2015.
- "Framing Multi-Confessionalism: Tolerance, Religious Pluralism and Secularism in the Nineteenth Century." Society for French Historical Studies, Sixtieth Annual Conference. McGill University. Montreal. 24-26 April 2014.
- "Not a Colony 'Properly Said': France, Algeria and the Making of Trans-Mediterranean France In the Nineteenth Century." Society for French Historical Studies, Fifty-Ninth Annual Conference. Harvard University/MIT, Cambridge. 4-6 April 2013.
Publications
2022
- 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. 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.
- 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. 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.
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.
Teaching
Courses Taught
Undergraduate Courses
- HS1605: Modern France since 1789
- HS1749: Nations, Empires and Borderlands Since 1789
- HS1887: Europe and the Revolutionary Tradition in the Long Nineteenth Century
- HS1701: Approaches to History
- HS1702: Examining Historical Debate
- HS1801: Dissertation Supervision
Postgraduate Courses
- HST932: Conflict and Community in Modern France
- HST641: Trends in Historical 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