Eighteenth & nineteenth century America, colonial history, public history, historical animal studies, women and gender studies, and environmental history.

Nicholas Miller, PhD, is an Assistant Teaching Professor of History at Ball State University. He has worked with the National Park system, National Endowment for the Humanities, multiple museums and archives, and currently teaches anthropology, public history, and Early American history. As a grassroots historian and folklorist, his interdisciplinary research combines environmental history, historical animal studies, applied history, and ethnography. His scholarship has examined multispecies folklore in cities, animals and exploration, and civil rights movements. His current research projects include the intersection of folklore in collegiate sports and the conservation of the White River. 

Dr. Miller teaches course on Museum Studies, Colonial and Revolutionary America, Archaeology and Culture, and Indigenous Studies.