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Ruth Miller Ph.D., Princeton University Ruth Miller joined the History Faculty in 2003 after receiving her B.A. in History from Mount Holyoke College and her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. She is the author of numerous books, journal articles, and chapters in the fields of Comparative Legal Studies and Feminist Theory. Her most recent book, Law in Crisis, discusses legal and political subject formation during moments of natural disaster. She is currently working on two projects, the first a study of consent and dream literature in the early modern Middle East, and the second a study of gender, agency and political speech. Areas of Special Interest Contact Information Office: McCormack 4-431 Phone: 617-287-6870 E-mail: ruth.miller@umb.edu (preferred) Office Hours for 2009 - 2010 On Leave during the 2009-2010 Academic Year Ruth Miller's Curriculum Vitae Books Law in Crisis: The Ecstatic Subject of Natural Disaster. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009 The Erotics of Corruption: Law, Scandal, and Political Perversion. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008. (Paperback edition, 2009) The Limits of Bodily Integrity: Abortion, Adultery, and Rape Legislation in Comparative Perspective. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Legislating Authority: Sin and Crime in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. New York and London: Routledge, 2005. Representative Articles "Genocidal Rights," Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 48 (Fall 2009): 147-175. "Rights, Reproduction, Sexuality, and Citizenship in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 32 (2) (Winter 2007): 347-375. “On Freedom and Feeding Tubes: Reviving Terri Schiavo and Trying Saddam Hussein,” Law and Literature 19 (2) (2007): 161-186. “The Ottoman and Islamic Substratum of Turkey’s Swiss Civil Code,” Journal of Islamic Studies 11 (3) (September 2000): 335-361. |