Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2024

Committee Chair/Advisor: Eric Tagliacozzo

Discipline: History

Primary Language: Indonesian, Dutch

Michael Kirkpatrick Miller is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Cornell University, where he studies the history of masculinity, empire, and religion in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. His dissertation project, "Modifying Men: Religion and Masculinity in Eastern Indonesia, 1870-1942," reports on and analyzes the history of religion, gender, and sexuality in Ambon and Manado during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Dutch East Indies. His dissertation research has been funded by the US Department of Education, the American Institute for Indonesian Studies, and the Library of Congress. Michael is also working on a secondary research project that tells the history of horses across Eastern Indonesia and the Pacific. At Cornell, he teaches courses on the global history of food and the histories of animals.