Cecilia Miller is an historian of ideas, and she has taught at Wesleyan University in Connecticut since 1991.

As an Enlightenment scholar, her research interests are in the history of European ideas broadly defined, from antiquity to the present, especially the philosophy of history; political, economic, and social theory; political fiction; the philosophy of science; the philosophy of law; and aesthetics.

Her latest review in The Times Literary Supplement, “From Homer to the Urban Poor,” appeared in the August 3rd, 2012 issue.

Cecilia Miller won the Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching at Wesleyan in 2002. She was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, from 1996-1997, and she was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Columbia University, 1989-1991. Cecilia Miller received her D.Phil. in Modern History from Balliol College, University of Oxford, in 1988. Her doctoral supervisor was Sir Isaiah Berlin. Her doctoral thesis was published as Giambattista Vico: Imagination and Historical Knowledge (London: Macmillan, 1993). For selected citations of her book, from Google Books, see: CM Vico book citations. For a list of her publications, in philpapers, Online Research in Philosophy, see: philpapers. Cecilia Miller recently finished writing a book manuscript on Enlightenment and Political Fiction.

Cecilia Miller was born in Los Angeles. She grew up in Manila, Philippines; Lahore, Pakistan; New Delhi, India; and Singapore. In connection with her research, she has lived in Paris, France; St. Andrews, Scotland; Trieste, Naples, and Rome, Italy; Oxford, England; Munich and Berlin, Germany; and Madrid, Spain.

 

 

 

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