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'''Kerby Alonzo Miller''' (born December 30, 1944)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/miller-kerby-1944|title=Miller, Kerby A. 1944– |website=Encyclopedia.com|access-date=7 April 2022}}</ref> is an American [[historian]] and emeritus professor at [[University of Missouri]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://history.missouri.edu/people/miller.html |title=Kerby Miller - History at the University of Missouri-Columbia |website=
==Life==
He is a visiting researcher at [[Queen's University Belfast]].<ref>[http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofHistoryandAnthropology/Staff/HonoraryEmeritus/DrKerbyAMiller/] {{dead link|date=April 2022}}</ref>
He has argued extensively that historian [[Richard J. Jensen]]'s claims about [[anti-Irish sentiment]] in America were inaccurate.<ref>{{cite news|first=Ben|last=Collins|title=The Teen Who Exposed a Professor's Myth|work=[[The Daily Beast]]|date=August 1, 2015|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/01/the-teen-who-exposed-a-professor-s-myth.html}}</ref>
Miller collected and transcribed over decades hundreds of letters from Irish immigrants in America. The letters range in date from the late 1600s to the 1950s. He deposited transcripts of these letters at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway to be made available on a searchable database.<ref>{{cite web |title=NUI Galway project to digitise letters from emigrants over hundreds of years |url=https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2021/0316/1204296-archive-emigrant-letters-nui-galway/ |website=
==Awards==
* 1986 [[Pulitzer Prize]] in History finalist
* 1986 Theodore Saloutos Award
* 1986 [[Merle Curti Award]] from the [[Organization of American Historians]]
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==Works==
===Chapters===
*{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/immigrationrecon00yans| url-access=registration| page=[https://archive.org/details/immigrationrecon00yans/page/96 96] | chapter=Class, Culture, and Immigrant Group Identity in the United States| title=Immigration reconsidered: history, sociology, and politics| editor=Virginia Yans-McLaughlin| publisher=Oxford University Press | year= 1990| isbn= 978-0-19-505510-8 | first=Virginia | last=Yans-McLaughlin}}
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