Suzanne Mariko Miller received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and her MA and PhD in History from Stanford University. Her research focuses on pre-modern colonialism in the Mediterranean, specifically on the case of Venetian dominion over coastal Croatia in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries. She is currently revising for publication her dissertation, entitled "Venice in the east Adriatic: Experiences and Experiments in Colonial Rule in Dalmatia and Istria, c. 1150-1358."

In her position as visiting assistant professor at the History department at Denison, Dr. Miller teaches courses in medieval and early modern European history. Previous to her arrival here, she taught medieval and early modern European history for a year (2008-9) at Oberlin College.

In both her teaching and research, she is generally interested in the question of authority: who has it, and why does anyone believe them? This leads her to questions about imperialism, state-formation, gender relations, bureaucracy and any other system where hierarchy develops.