Dr. Christopher A. Miller has spent most of his career exploring how people gather information and construct knowledge with material objects. He has also been involved in thinking about role of place in peoples lives in Appalachia and beyond.

During 2011 and 2014, Miller was a Fulbright Scholar to Ukraine. In 2011, he taught at the Vasyl Stefanik Precarpathian National University Institute for Tourism. In 2014, he taught at the Ivano-Frankivsk State College for Technology and Business. His Fulbright research explored the role of material culture and public visuals in constructing highlander identity in Carpathian Mountain Ukraine and comparing such construction to what which happens in American Appalachia.

Dr. Miller has been at Berea College since 1993, initially appointed as Director of Berea College’s Appalachian Museum (closed 1998). At Berea, he has also served as interim director of the Appalachian Center multiple times, and as Networked Services Administrator. Prior to Berea College, Miller worked in two public museums: The Minnesota History Center (St. Paul, Minnesota) and the Outagamie Museum & Houdini Historical Center (Appleton, Wisconsin, now called the Museum at the Castle).

Dr. Miller was also a pioneer in digital humanities in Kentucky, first exploring online virtual exhibitions in 1995, and first doing 360VR imaging of artifacts in 1999. He continues to work in the area of computer mediated access to artifacts, virtual exhibitions, and computer-assisted content analysis.

Miller also has been highly involved in the Berea College Community having served on the General Faculty Executive Council, the Strategic Planning Committee, Sexual Harassment Policy Review Committee, and many more. He also chaired the Campus Information Resources Committee for three years during the era when Berea moved from computer labs to universal access.