Dr. Char Miller, Author

Professor at Pomona College

“America’s Great National Forests, Wildernesses, and Grasslands”

From 2007-09, Professor Miller was a visiting professor at Pomona, teaching in the History Department and EA Program. Prior to that, he taught at Trinity University in San Antonio, where he was chair of the History Department and Director of Urban Studies. In 2013, he was named a Wig Distinguished Professor at Pomona College for teaching excellence. He served a three-year term as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians beginning in 2007, and in 2002 was named a Piper Professor, a prize awarded by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation for excellence in teaching and service to higher education in Texas. He also held the Dr. and Mrs. Z. T. Scott Faculty Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching at Trinity University.

A Senior Fellow of the Pinchot Institute for Conservation, and a Fellow of the Forest History Society, Professor Miller has been a Contributing Writer for the Texas Observer, an associate editor for Environmental History and the Journal of Forestry, as well on the editorial board of the Pacific Historical Review. Past service includes working on the Board of Directors of the Forest History Society and the editorial board of the Trinity University Press. He is currently on the board of the Claremont Wildlands Conservancy.

Professor Miller’s blog, Golden Green, received the inaugural Public Service Award from the American Society for Environmental History. It focuses on environmental policy issues in California and the West.