Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Office: 916 Sproul Hall Email: wfmiller (at) ucdavis (dot) edu Phone: 530-752-6255
Flagg Miller is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies who specializes in political discourse, Islam, and media on the Arabian Peninsula. His first book, The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audiocassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen (Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2007), focuses on transformations in political poetry that accompany the expansion of writing and audio-visual recording technologies in Yemen. His current book projects focus on Muslim reformers as well as militants, and include an original analysis of Osama Bin Laden's 1996 Declaration of War. Dr. Miller has published in a variety of venues, including the American Ethnologist, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, the Journal of Women's History, and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Recent articles include Al-Qa'ida as a Pragmatic Base: Contributions of Area Studies to Sociolinguistics, Language and Comunication (2007), and the introduction to Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak (University of Iowa Press, 2007), the first collection of poems written by detainees at Guantanamo Bay. He has lived and studied in the Middle East and North Africa for over four years, including Tunisia, Syria, and Yemen.
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