Dr Christopher Miller
- Lecturer in Global Economy (Economic & Social History)
telephone:
01413302786
email:
Christopher.Miller@glasgow.ac.uk
Centre for Business History in Scotland, 221 Lilybank House, G12 8RT
Biography
I am a historian of business-government relations in the twentieth century, particularly interested in wars, crises and technological development in Western Europe and America. I have mostly been working on the political economy of armaments manufacturing and related topics, though these interests are (slowly) broadening into other areas - such as pollution and the environment - in recent months and years.
I was educated at the University of Oxford (Balliol College), and the University of Glasgow. I (re)joined Glasgow in 2016 after a predoctoral fellowship at Yale University, and a lectureship at the University of Tübingen in Germany. For six months in 2020 and 2021 I was a visiting Associate Professor within the University of Jyväskylä's Academy of Finland-funded Crises Research Centre.
Since 2018 I have been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Supervision
Macon Linton St Hilaire (Ph.D, 1st Supervisor - Lind Foundation Funding): 'A Spirit of Success? The Globalisation of Scotch Whisky, 1918-2018' [with Professor Niall MacKenzie, Adam Smith Business School]
Sascha Schuster (Ph.D, 2nd Supervisor): 'The linkages between military and business strategy in history' [with Professor Beatrice Heuser, Politics and IR]
Shoya Fugestu (Ph.D, dual Glasgow-Kyoto University progamme): 'Royal Navy and private manufacturer co-operation in shipbuilding in the Long Eighteenth Century'
Zheilang Shen (Ph.D, dual Glasgow-Nankai University programme): 'Pathways to Internationalisation for private Chinese firms since 1980'.
- Qi, Hebin
The Political Economy of Energy Transition in the Germany and the United Kingdom, from 1990 to the Present
Teaching
Economies and Societies in WWII (Honours)
Researching Economic and Social History 1 & 2 (Honours)
Technnology Transfer in the Global Economy (PGT)
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy (PGT)
Globalisation in the Modern Economy (MSc International Political Economy, Glasgow-Nankai Joint Graduate School, China)
Various other core and team-taught modules at Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels.
Professional activities & recognition
Research fellowships
- 2020 - 2021: Academy of Finland
Editorial boards
- 2020: Mariner's Mirror
- 2018: Business History
- 2016: Scottish Labour History
Professional & learned societies
- 2018: Fellow, Royal Historical Society