Muslims in Europe focus of talk Wednesday

Mark Miller, Emma Smith Morris Professor of Political Science and International Relations

2:59 p.m., April 18, 2005--Mark Miller will deliver his Inaugural Lecture as Emma Smith Morris Professor of Political Science and International Relations at 4 p.m., Wednesday, April 20, in 115 Purnell Hall. His talk, “Integration of European Muslims: The Strategic Imperative,” is free and open to the public.

Miller’s research involves international and comparative politics with a focus on migration issues. He has testified on developments in European migration policies before Congress, several U.S. commissions and the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. He also attended the Fourth World Congress on Migration, sponsored by the Vatican in 1998.

Besides serving as a consultant to the U.S. departments of State, Labor and Justice, as well as the International Labor Organization and the United Nations, Miller served as U.S. correspondent to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s group of migration experts from 1983-89. Miller also wrote two commissioned monographs for the Commission on Immigration Reform.

Miller has published extensively in his field and is the author or coauthor of five books, the most recent the revised and expanded second edition of The Age of Migration, originally published in 1998. He also serves as managing editor of the International Labor Review.

Miller received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin and also received a French government scholarship for dissertation research on immigrant political participation in Western Europe at L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Sciences Socials in Paris.

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