Peter N. Miller is President of the American Academy in Rome. He was Professor of Cultural History and then Dean at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City between 2001 and 2023. He is the author of a series of books on the early seventeenth-century antiquarian Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc, on the history of antiquarianism, and on the modern study of objects as evidence. He co-curated the exhibitions Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margarieta van Varick (BGC, 2009), What Is the Object? (BGC, 2022) and Conserving Active Matter (BGC, 2022). His next book is the extended version of his 2023 E. H. Gombrich Lectures, On Conservation as a Human Science (Princeton University Press). His main current interest is in the hows and whys of research, whether among historians, curators, conservators or artists. Miller previously taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Chicago and Maryland. He was a research fellow at the Warburg Institute and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Marseille and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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