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Prof. Mgr. Jaroslav Miller, M.A., Ph.D. ( * 8 January 1971 Šumperk, the Czech Republic) is a professor of history and rector at Palacký University in Olomouc. He focuses on urban studies, the history of political thought and lately also questions of Czech and Slovak exile. == Life == Professor Miller studied history and philology in Olomouc (Palacký University), Budapest (Central European University) and Oxford (University of Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall). His teachers included Josef Jařab, Ralf Dahrendorf, Stephen Greenblatt and Robert John Weston Evans. He has taken part in many long-term fellowships at universities and scientific institutions in Canada, Hungary, USA, Great Britain, Germany and Australia. He was twice appointed a fellow of the German scientific Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2006 in Marburg, 2010 in Münster) and the American Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2004, 2010 Wolfenbüttel). In 2008 he was a Fulbright Fellow at Georgia College and State University. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he held a Guest Professorship at the University of Western Australia in Perth. In 2012, the Ambassador of the USA appointed him a Fulbright Program Ambassador to the Czech Republic. In the same year he was appointed Professor of History and he is currently the Head of the History Department, Philosophical Faculty at Palacký University in Olomouc, which is one of the biggest faculties of this kind in the Czech Republic. In 2008 the British publishing house Ashgate published his monograph ''Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500–1700''. In 2010 he published in New York and Budapest (together with László Kontler) the monograph ''Friars, Nobles and Burghers – Sermons, Images and Prints: Studies of Culture and Society in Early-Modern Europe'' (New York–Budapest: CEU Press 2010). On 16 October 2013 he was elected as the Rector of Palacký University for the period 2014-2018. His term began on 1 February 2014.〔http://www.ceu.hu/article/2013-10-22/ceu-alumnus-jaroslav-miller-elected-rector-palacky-university〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jaroslav Miller」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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