Biography
Andrew Miller is a PhD candidate in history under the advisement of Randy J. Sparks. Since coming to Tulane, he has received the John T. Monroe Fellowship for the study of the Gulf South (2021-2026), the Peter T. Cominos Memorial Award for best paper by a graduate student (2023), and the William R. Hogan Fellowship Award for excellence in teaching by a graduate student (2024). His dissertation examines the introduction of cotton agriculture to the Lower Mississippi Valley in the 1790s and the social, economic, and environmental transformations that followed in the early nineteenth century.