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Loren Miller, Ph.D.


Dr. Loren E. Miller is the Senior Curator at the Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum (ONHM). She comes to ONHM from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture, where she was a museum specialist and contributed to exhibitions, such as Spirit in the Dark: Religion in Black Music, Activism, and Popular Culture, as well as publications, and public programs. As a curator and historian at the National Library of Medicine from 2012 to 2016, she worked on a wide range of highly successful exhibits, teaching plans, and digital content. Throughout her career, Dr. Miller has collaborated with a broad range of museums and cultural institutions in a curatorial capacity, some of which include the National Building Museum, the National Park Service, and the Securities Exchange Commission Historical Society.

Education

  • Ph.D., U.S. History from American University
  • M.A., Public History from American University
  • B.A., Anthropology and Spanish from Skidmore College


Selected Publications

  • “Collaboration and Curation.” In Circulating Now, Full Circle, by the National Library of Medicine. Charlottesville, VA: Virginia Tech Publishing, (2024). URL: https://publishing.vt.edu/site/books/e/10.21061/circulating-now/.

  • National Museum of African American History and Culture. Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2023.

  • National Museum of African American History and Culture. Movements, Motions, and Moments: Photographs of Religion and Spirituality from the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Vol. 8 of Double Exposure. London: D. Giles Limited, 2023.

  • Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity, and Vision from the National Collection. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2019.

  • “A Portrait of African American Servicewomen in World War II.” In Fighting for Freedom, by the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Vol. 5 of Double Exposure. London: D. Giles Limited, 2017.
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