Marla Miller is a Distinguished Professor of History at University of Massachusetts Amherst and a former director of the History Department’s Public History program. Her primary research interest is U.S. women’s work before industrialization. Her book “The Needle’s Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution” (University of Massachusetts Press, 2006) won the Millia Davenport Publication Award. Her book “Betsy Ross and the Making of America” (Holt, 2010) was a finalist for the Cundill Prize in History and was named to the Washington Post’s “Best of 2010” list.
