J. Michael Miller

EDUCATION

Virginia Tech

MA in American History, (1981)

Thesis: "Even to Hell Itself, The North Anna River Campaign May 21-27, 1864"

University of Alabama

B.A. in History, (1978)

• 34 Year career in the Marine Corps Archival, Museum, and Historical Field at all levels of management

• Experienced in planning of new Archival facilities

• Rated Expert in OPM Critical Performance Standards as Archives Director

• Society of American Archivists as founder and first Chair of the Military Archives Roundtable

Director, Marine Corps Archives 2005-2013

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Penn State Civil War Conference (1998-2007)

Marine Corps University Civil War History and Staff Rides (1995-1997)

University of Mary Washington Archives Practicum (2013-2015)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Society of American Archivists, Middle Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Society of Military History, Company of Military Historians, Marine Corps University Foundation and Marine Corps Heritage Foundation.

AWARDS

General Leonard F. Chapman Medallion Award, Marine Corps University Foundation, 2016

Civilian Meritorious Service Medal 2005

The Colonel Robert Debs Heinl Jr. Award for “Marines in the Boxer Rebellion, 1900,” Leatherneck Magazine, Most Outstanding Article on Marine Corps History, 2000.

Edited Works and Anthologies

“James Guthrie Harbord,” 1914-1918-Online, International Encyclopedia of the First World War.

“Bayonets, Blood and Beyond, A Single Day of Combat for a Marine Rifle Company,” part of the anthology, Unknown Soldiers, The American Expeditionary Forces in Memory and Remembrance, Kent State University Press, 2008.

My Dear Smedley, The Letters of John A. Lejeune and Smedley D. Butler, Government Printing Office, 2003.

“St. Mihiel Campaign 1918” which appeared in the anthology, The United States in the First World War, An Encyclopedia, Routledge Press,1995.

Numerous articles on both on Marine Corps and Civil War History for national publications such as Leatherneck, Fortitudine, Civil War Times Illustrated, Blue and Gray Magazine, and Gettysburg Magazine.