Jonson W Miller

Jonson Miller joined the history department in 2007, first as an adjunct professor still completing his doctoral dissertation, then as a full-time teaching professor. After earning two degrees in geology, Jonson switched to an interdisciplinary doctoral program in the history, sociology, and philosophy of science and technology at Virginia Tech, where he focused his research on the history of American engineers, culminating in his book Engineering Manhood: Race and the Antebellum Virginia Military Institute. Since then, he has studied and written about 19th-century Welsh coal miners in Pennsylvania and the history of Drexel. He is currently studying the civilian and US Army geological and topographic surveys of the American West during the 19th century.