JON MILLER, Research Professor and Senior Research Associate
Center for Religion and Civic Culture
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California 90089-1481
Tel.: (213) 821-7040; E-mail:
November 2012
DEGREES:
Ph.D., Sociology with History Minor, Washington State University
BA, Sociology, University of Texas. Highest Honors; Phi Beta Kappa
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Religion, Social Theory, Organizational Analysis
LANGUAGES:
English, German
PROFESSIONAL CAREER:
Senior Research Associate, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, September 2010 to present
Director of Research, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, June, 2000 to September 2010
Chair, Department of Sociology (August 1, 1997 to August 31, 2000)
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California, fall 1986 through summer 1988; summer 1989 to fall 1995
Assistant Professor, to Professor, to Research Professor, University of Southern California, September 1967 to present
ACADEMIC AWARDS:
1996: Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award for Scholarly Achievement: The Social Control of Religious Zeal: A Study of Organizational Contradictions. 1994: Rutgers University Press.
1995: USC Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching.
RESEARCH GRANTS:
National Endowment for the Humanities, “Visual Traces of Social Change: The International Mission Photography Archive” Principal Investigators Jon Miller and Matt Gainer. March 31, 2012 to April 1, 2015. $280,000.
National Endowment for the Humanities, “Essays in Visual History: Making Use of the International Mission Photography Archive.” Principal Investigators Jon Miller and Matt Gainer. March 31, 2012 to April 1, 2013. $25,000.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, “The Cultural Context of Globalization: Cataloging the Visual Traces of Social Change in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Principal Investigators Jon Miller and Todd Grappone. January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2010. $304,906
The Getty Grants Program, “Consolidation of the Basel Mission Digital Photograph Collection and the Internet Mission Photography Archive.” Principal Investigator Jon Miller, May 2007 to December 2008. $100,000.
RESEARCH GRANTS (continued):
The Getty Grants Program, “Capturing the Visual Traces of the Missionary Movement: An International Collaboration to Create a Scholarly Resource on the Internet.” Co-Principal Investigators Jon Miller (USC), Martha Smalley (Yale University), Rosemary Seton (University of London), and Paul Jenkins (Basel University) May 2002 to December 2005. $250,000.
The Pew Charitable Trusts, “Religion and New Immigrants in Los Angeles,” Donald E. Miller and Jon Miller, Co-principal Investigators, September 1, 1999 to August 31, 2002. $600,000
National Science Foundation, “Women and Men in Nineteenth-Century Missionary Practice and Discourse,” August 15, 1997 to December 31, 1998. Dissertation Improvement Grant for Line Nyhagen Predelli, Ph.D. Candidate and Jon Miller, Sponsor. $6900.
National Science Foundation, “Evangelical Missions, Social Change, and Resistance to Authority” June 1994 to July 1997. $150,477.
University of Southern California Research and Innovation Fund, “Religion and Social Change: A Comparative Study of Colonial Missionary Organizations,” June 1991 to June 1993. $3225
National Science Foundation, “Organizational Control and Interpersonal Conflict,” May 1986 to October 1988. $44,013
National Science Foundation, “Growth and Bureaucracy in Voluntary Organizations,” May 1984 to October 1985. $31,430
University of Southern California Research and Innovation Fund, “Belief and Bureaucracy: An Organizational Study of the Basel Mission,” June 1983 to May 1984. $6,174
NILECJ/LEAA, “Interorganizational networks and organizational effectiveness: Community agencies and client outcomes in the DSO program,” July 1980 to June 1982. $120,000 (CoPI James Lincoln, Indiana University)
NILECJ/LEAA, “The analysis of interorganizational networks in the delivery of criminal and juvenile justice services,” October 1978 to June 1980. $116,500 (CoPI James Lincoln, Indiana University)
SELECTED RECENT SCHOLARLY WRITINGS, PUBLICATIONS, and PRESENTATIONS:
Internet Database:
Jon Miller, Paul Jenkins, Martha Smalley, and Rosemary Seton, INTERNATIONAL MISSION PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE. www.usc.edu/impa
Books:
Jon Miller, Missionary Zeal and Institutional Control: Organizational Contradictions in the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast, 1828-1917. London: Routledge/Curzon Press and Philadelphia: Eerdmans Publishers. 2003. (This is a revised and expanded version of Jon Miller, The Social Control of Religious Zeal, Rutgers University Press 1994)
Jon Miller, The Social Control of Religious Zeal: A Study of Organizational Contradictions. Arnold and Caroline Rose Monograph Series of the American Sociological Association. 1994: Rutgers University Press.
Jon Miller, Pathways in the Workplace: The Effects of Race and Gender on Access to Organizational Resources. Arnold and Caroline Rose Monograph Series of the American Sociological Association. 1986: Cambridge University Press. (Paperback edition 2006)
Work in Progress:
Jon Miller, “Capturing the Visual Traces of Historical Change in Africa: The Internet Mission Photography Archive”
Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles about Religion:
Jon Miller and Gregory Stanczak, “Redeeming, Ruling, and Reaping: British Missionary Societies, the East India Company, and the India-China Opium Trade.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48, 2 (June 2009)
Jon Miller, “Material Traces of Religious Change in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.” Material Religion 4, 3 (October) 2008.
Jon Miller, Capturing the Visual Traces of Historical Change: The Internet Mission Photography Archive. Chapter 4 in Visual Research Methods: Image, Society, Representation. Gregory C. Stanczak (ed.) Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. 2007.
Jon Miller, “Religion in the Lives of Immigrants to Los Angeles,” in Hartmut Lehman, ed., Migration und Religion im Zeitalter der Globalizierung. Göttingen: Wallstein 2005.
Donald E. Miller, Jon Miller, and Grace Dyrness. “Religious Dimensions of the Immigrant Experience in Southern California” in Heikkila, J. Eric and Rafael Pizarro-O'Byrne. Southern California and the World. 2002. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Line Predelli and Jon Miller, "Piety and Patriarchy: Contested Gender Regimes in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Missions," in Mary Huber and Nancy Lutkehaus, eds., Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice. University of Michigan Press, 1999.
Jon Miller, “Politics, Economics, and the International Missionary Movement,” in The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion. Robert Wuthnow, Editor, Congressional Quarterly Books Division, 1998.
Jon Miller, "Missions, Social Change, and Resistance to Authority." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 32, 1 (March 1993).
Jon Miller, "Institutionalized Contradictions: Trouble in a Colonial Mission." Organization Studies 12, 3 (1991).
Jon Miller, "Class Collaboration for the Sake of Religion: Elite Control and Social Mobility in a NineteenthCentury Colonial Mission." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (March 1990).
Selected Conference Presentations about Religion:
Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity, New Haven, 2011
Social Science History Association, Chicago, 2010
Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity, Edinburgh, 2010
American Library Association, Washington, DC, 2010
African Digital Scholarship and Curation, Pretoria, South Africa, 2009
American Catholic Library Association, Anaheim, 2009
American Society for Church History, Washington, DC, 2008
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Louisville, 2008
Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity, Edinburgh, 2008
Empires of Religion Conference, University College Dublin, 2006
Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity, Edinburgh, 2006
European Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Association, Rheinfelden, Germany, 2005
American Historical Association, Seattle, 2005
Max Planck Institute für Geschichte, Freiburg im Breisgau 2004
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Kansas City 2004
Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 2004
Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity, New Haven, 2003
American Sociological Association, August 2002
Currents in World Christianity, Pretoria, South Africa, 2001
Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity, New Haven, 2001
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, October 2000
Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity, Edinburgh 2000
North Atlantic Missiology Project, June, 1998
Association for the Sociology of Religion, August 1997
African Studies Association, November 1996
American Anthropological Association, November 1993
Workshop on Mission History, Basel, Switzerland, November 1992
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, November 1991
International Sociological Association, July 1990
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