Professor Bonnie Miller

Professor Bonnie Miller

Professor Bonnie Miller was this year’s Henry R. Heyburn ’39 Speaker. Professor Miller earned her Ph.D. in history at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of From Liberation to Conquest: The Visual and Popular Cultures of the Spanish-American War of 1898, in which she argues for the importance of visual images in shaping the political debates surrounding the Cuban crisis and the imperial aftermath of the Spanish-American War. At UMass Boston, she teaches courses in visual culture /media studies and American social and cultural history from 1600 to the present.

“We can gain insight into popular beliefs of the past by studying images from that period. Images are historical documents, not illustrations. Each image has its own story to tell.”