Education/Discipline: Ph.D. Political Science, University of Toronto, 2004 M.A. Political Science, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) B.A. Political Science, Carleton University B. Journalism, Carleton University

Specialty/ interests:

Political theory, history of ideas, particularly the political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friedrich Nietzsche, the thought and legacy of the Enlightenment , and 19th century European thought.



Publications:

Forced into freedom: Rousseau’s strange self-portrait in the Rêveries. Forthcoming in Rethinking Rousseau's Rêveries: nature and human nature. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation – SVEC, 2007.
Rousseau. An encyclopedia entry in the 2nd Edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Editor in Chief: William A. Darity. Thomson Gale – Macmillan Reference USA, 2007.



Current Research/ Papers:

What We Should Learn from Rousseau’s Portrayal of Women or Humiliation as Social Integration.
Rousseau’s Epicureanism.
Rousseau and “Effervescence”: A Reassessment of the Role of Psychic Wholeness in his Political Philosophy.



Course taught at ASU:

POSC 3423 American Political Theory
POSC 4453 Analysis of Contemporary Political Theory
POSC 2103 Introduction to U.S. Government


For more information see Dr. Miller's vita.