Kerby A. Miller

Kerby Alonzo Miller (born December 30, 1944) is an American historian and emeritus professor at University of Missouri. He is known for his works on Irish immigration to and identity in the United States.

Life Miller graduated from Pomona College, and from University of California, Berkeley, with an MA and PhD in 1976. He is a visiting researcher at Queen's University Belfast.

He has argued extensively that historian Richard J. Jensen's claims about anti-Irish sentiment in America were inaccurate.

Miller collected and transcribed over decades hundreds of letters from Irish immigrants in America. The letters range in date from the late 1600s to the 1950s. He deposited transcripts of these letters at the Moore Institute, University of Galway to be made available on a searchable database, Imirce.

Awards 1986 Pulitzer Prize in History finalist 1986 Theodore Saloutos Award 1986 Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians 2002 Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians 2004 James S. Donnelly Prize for Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan

Works Chapters

Books

Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America (Washington, DC, 1994), (reprint 1988 )