Dr. H.D. Miller
Lipscomb University
A Yale-trained medieval historian, Lipscomb University department chair and culinary historian, who brought the case for the liberal arts to Meriwether Academy’s dinner table.
Watch His LectureAn Eccentric Culinary HistoryAbout H.D. Miller
Dr. H.D. (Howard) Miller is professor of history and chair of the Department of History, Politics and Philosophy at Lipscomb University in Nashville. He earned his doctorate in medieval history at Yale, where his dissertation studied the Mozarabs, the Arabized Christians of medieval Spain. He served in the U.S. Army, where he learned Arabic, and won a Fulbright Scholarship for work in Spain.
He has taught college for about thirty years. At Lipscomb his courses include Reading the Renaissance, a freshman course built on primary texts. He grew up in Corning, California.
An eccentric culinary historian
Miller is also a historian of food. He contributed a chapter on medieval Islamic cuisine to Food: The History of Taste, which was nominated for a James Beard Award, and he writes An Eccentric Culinary History, his self-described personality-driven blog on food, history and travel.
The classical mind at Meriwether
Miller was the guest of Lost Arts, a Meriwether Academy dinner symposium in Nashville on reviving the classical mind in the modern world. His talk, Reviving the Classical Mind, on why the liberal arts and humanities still matter, is free in the Meriwether lecture archive.
Lectures and talks by H.D. Miller
Dr. Miller’s lecture at Meriwether Academy, free to watch in full.
Reviving the Classical Mind
The work of H.D. Miller
Read and study with Dr. Miller beyond Meriwether.
An Eccentric Culinary History
Miller’s blog of personality-driven culinary history, drawing on primary sources to tell the stories behind what we eat.
Read the blog →Lipscomb University History
Miller chairs Lipscomb’s Department of History, Politics and Philosophy in Nashville.
Faculty page →Lost Arts, a Meriwether dinner
About Dr. H.D. Miller
Who is H.D. Miller?
Dr. H.D. (Howard) Miller is professor of history and chair of the Department of History, Politics and Philosophy at Lipscomb University in Nashville. He holds a PhD in medieval history from Yale.
What does H.D. Miller study?
Islamic Spain and pre-modern European history, along with culinary history, which he writes about on An Eccentric Culinary History.
What did H.D. Miller speak about at Meriwether Academy?
At the Lost Arts dinner symposium he spoke on reviving the classical mind and why the liberal arts still matter. Watch the lecture.
Where does H.D. Miller teach?
At Lipscomb University in Nashville, where he chairs the Department of History, Politics and Philosophy.
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