Joseph and Dorothy Censer Graduate Endowed Fellowship History and Art History

Alexandra Miller is a doctoral student in History. She works as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. Originally from Kansas, she previously studied at Truman State University (BA History) and the University of South Carolina (MA Public History). Building on her previous research on parks and playgrounds, Miller is currently working on the misuse of public space in the American Gilded Age and Progressive Era. She is primarily interested in using spatial history as an investigation method, both by mapping and by material description.