M. Sammye Miller, Ph.D.

Sammye Miller holds a Ph.D. in Legal History from The Catholic University of America and received his M.A.T. in History from Trinity University and a B.A. in History from Delaware State University. He completed a post-doctoral experience at Stanford University in Constitutional Law and History under the direction of Professor Don E. Fehrenbacher. Dr. Miller served as a Humanist Administrator and Historian in the Division of Public Program at the National Endowment for the Humanities. He also served as Assistant for Projects and Community Services at The Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (ASALH) in Washington, D.C., and later served as the Executive Director.

During his tenure at Bowie State University, Dr. Miller served as Assistant to the Vice President for Planning and Development and served three terms as Chairman of the Department of History & Government and is currently serving a fourth term. He was also the former Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences and Special Assistant to the Provost in the Office of Academic Affairs.

Dr. Miller is the former editor of the “Negro History Bulletin” and the author of numerous articles in scholarly and popular journals, including: “Journal of Negro History,” “Black Collegian,” “Journal of American History,” “Black Scholar,” “Journal of Southern History,” “Presence Africaine,” “Negro History Bulletin,” “Black Books Bulletin,” “The Historian,” and “The Crisis.”

Dr. Miller was a Board of Trustees Scholar (Catholic University), Penfield Fellow and Knight of Columbus Fellow.  He is a holder of the NAFEO Research Achievement Award and is a frequent guest lecturer before learned societies, federal agencies and community organizations. He is also a member of the Phi Alpha Theta and Kappa Delta Pi National Honor Societies, 4th degree Knight of Columbus and a Life Member of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.  He was nominated as a Walter J.  Leonard Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford University in England. Most recently, Dr. Miller was appointed to three Boards at the United States Department of State: Senior Foreign Service, Senior Executive Pay Performance and Department Senior Review Board for Distinguished and Meritorious Service, whose nominees are recommended to the White House for Presidential Awards.  Dr. Miller will be leaving the State Department to perform similar board service for the United States Agency for International Development.

Traveling extensively for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Dr. Miller visited many cultural institutions in the United States, including the Chinese Cultural Foundation of San Francisco; the Pierpont Morgan Library of New York; the Arizona State Museum, along with a number of African-American Museums including the DuSable Museum of Chicago; the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society in Providence; and the Historic Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  His international site visits include extensive tours of the Peoples Republic of China; Japan; the Middle East; West, East and North Africa; Western Europe; and the Caribbean.

Dr. Miller is married to the former Gloria J. Sellman of Lothian, Maryland and they reside in Glenn Dale, Maryland.