Joseph C. Miller, the T. Cary Johnson Professor of History at the University of Virginia, is a historian specialized in Africa, the Atlantic slave trade, and slavery in world historical contexts.  He has also studied Latin American history, with an emphasis on Brazil, and spent a year in the Department of Anthropology at University College, London.  His research has centered on the history of Angola from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries;  major works include Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade (1988; co-winner of the Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association, special citation of the Bolton Prize committee of the Conference of Latin American Historians).  He has also published a series of worldwide bibliographies of slavery and the slave trade;  the most recent compilation is Slavery: A Worldwide Bibliography, 1900-1991 and 1992-96 (2 vols., 15,000 entries, published 1999), with annual supplements continuing to appear in Slavery and Abolition (London: Frank Cass, now Taylor & Francis) and now nearing posting as a searchable website (25,000 entries).  He is an experienced leader of teacher workshops, co-directed the original ROOTS Institute in 1998, created and directed a version of the Institute for secondary teachers in 2000 and a Seminar in 2004, 2006, and 2008;  he also developed ROOTS as an NEH Institute for college and university instructors in 2001 and as the current Seminar in 2003, 2005, and 2007.  Miller edited the Journal of African History (Cambridge University Press) from 1990 through 1996, the “Africa” section of the American Historical Association Guide to Historical Literature (1995), the history portion of the Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa (Scribner’s, 1997), and the Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery (1998), and the New Encyclopedia of Africa (Gale, 2007).  He served as board member and treasurer of the African Studies Association (1985-93) and has just completed a term as president in 2006-07;  he was also president of the American Historical Association in 1998.  His current research interests focus on thinking historically about early Africa and developing a historical interpretation of slavery on a global scale.