Christopher Miller

Chris Miller is Associate Professor of International History, where his research focuses on technology, geopolitics, economics, international affairs, and Russia.

He is author of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, a geopolitical history of the computer chip.

He is the author of three other books on Russia, including Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia; We Shall Be Masters: Russia's Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin; and The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR. He has previously served as the Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale, a lecturer at the New Economic School in Moscow, a visiting researcher at the Carnegie Moscow Center, a research associate at the Brookings Institution, and as a fellow at the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Academy. He received his PhD and MA from Yale University and his BA in history from Harvard University.

Research/Areas of Interest:

• Technology and geopolitics
• Semiconductors
• Russian history, politics, economics, foreign policy
• Cold War history
• Diplomatic history

Education

• BA, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, 2009
• MA, Yale University, New Haven, United States, 2011
• PhD, Yale University, New Haven, United States, 2015

Tufts University Appointments

• Associate Professor
  Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1 Jun 2022 - present
• Assistant Professor
  Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1 Jul 2017 - 31 May 2022