Marla Miller

Marla Miller's primary research interest is U.S. women's work before industrialization. Her book The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution (University of Massachusetts Press, 2006) won the Millia Davenport Publication Award. Her book Betsy Ross and the Making of America  (Holt, 2010) was a finalist for the Cundill Prize in History and named to the Washington Post's "Best of 2010" list.

As faculty in, and former Director of, the History Department's Public History program, Professor Miller has taught courses in Public History, American Material Culture, Museum and Historic Site Interpretation, and History Communication. She also consults with a wide variety of museums and historic sites. In 2016, she was elected vice president/president elect of the National Council on Public History; her term as NCPH president commenced in Spring 2018, and concluded in Spring 2020. Her presidential address, “'In the Spaciousness of Uncertainty is Room to Act:' Public History’s Long Game," can @marlaatlargebe found in the August 2020 issue of The Public Historian.