Dr. Montserrat Miller earned a B.A. in International Affairs from Marshall in 1983 and an M.A. in History from Marshall in 1988. She earned a second M.A. in History from Carnegie Mellon University in 1990 and a Ph.D. in History from the same institution in 1994.Dr. Miller joined the Marshall faculty in 1996 as a Distinguished Drinko Fellow. After conducting an internal review of the Honors and John Marshall Scholars Programs for the Office of the President, she served as Coordinator of the University’s highly successful celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the appointment of John Marshall as Chief Justice of the United States. Dr. Miller received a Pickens-Queen Teaching Award in 1998; the Student Activities and Greek Affairs Outstanding Advisor award in 1999; College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Teacher awards in 2007 and 2009; the Dr. Charles E. Hedrick Outstanding Faculty Award for 2006-2007; and the West Virginia Faculty Merit Foundation’s Edward H. Greene West Virginia Professor of the Year award in 2008. Her research has been funded by the U.S. State Department’s Fulbright Program, the American Association of University Women, The National Endowment for the Humanities, the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’ Universities, the West Virginia Humanities Council and by Marshall University. Dr. Miller’s work has been published in Catalan, Spanish, and English. Her book, Feeding Barcelona, 1714-1975: Public Market Halls, Social Networks, and Consumer Culture (Louisiana State University Press, 2015), was awarded the Best First Book Prize by Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honorary Society. She was appointed to succeed Dr. Alan Gould as Executive Director of the John Deaver Drinko Academy in December of 2017. Dr. Miller received Marshall University’s Distinguished Service Award in 2020, the Carolyn B. Hunter Faculty Service Award in 2021, and a Living the Dream Award from the Martin Luther King, Jr. State Holiday Commission in 2023.