Clyde Lee Miller

Academic Honors & Awards

B.A., M.A., Ph.L.,S.T.L. magna cum laude
Jacob Cooper Prize in Greek Philosophy, Yale, 1974 (dissertation)
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1980
Danforth Associate, 1980-84
New York State/UUP Excellence Award, 1991
SBU School of Professional Development: Bentley Glass Great Teacher Award, 1996
SBU Academy of Teacher-Scholars Award, 1999
SBU Commendation for Graduate Student Mentoring, 2002

Grants

SUNY/UAC Summer Research Fellowships: 1975, '77, '78, '79, '81
SBU Grant-in-Aid: 1978, 1982-83
SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines Grant: 1979
NEH Translation Grant: summer, 1983
NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers Director's Grant: "Learning and Teaching in Plato's Protagoras and Meno." 1989, '91, '92, '93, '95, '96 (total = $391,445)
SBU Academy of Teacher-Scholars Award, 1999

Teaching Positions

1961-64 Secondary School Teacher, St. John's College, Belize.
1972-73 Half-time Instructor, Yale Univ.
1973-74 Lecturer, Stony Brook University
1974-80 Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
1980-01 Associate Professor, Stony Brook University
2001- Professor, Stony Brook University

Publications

Yale Dissertation: A Commentary on Plato's Protagoras.

Editor

Managing Editor, Theology Digest, 1967.
Book Review Editor, Cross Currents, 1975-85.
Editor, Acta XVIII (1993) "Old and New in the Fifteenth Century."

Monograph

Reading Cusanus: Metaphor and Dialectic in a Conjectural Universe. Washington, D.C.: Catholic Univ. Press, 2002.

Translated Books

1. Nicholas de Cusa, Idiota de mente--The Layman: About Mind, with Introduction and notes. New York: Abaris Books, 1979.
2. Jean Gerson, De consolatione theologiae--The Consolation of Theology, with Introduction and notes. Norwalk, Ct.: Abaris Books, 1998.

Recent Articles/Book Chapters/Essays

1."Perception, Conjecture and Dialectic in Nicholas of Cusa," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 64 (1990): 35-54.
2."The Icon and the Wall: Visio and Ratio in Nicholas of Cusa's De visione Dei," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 64 (1990): 86-98.
3. "Nicholas of Cusa's On Conjectures (De conjecturis)," in Nicholas of Cusa: In Search of God and Wisdom, ed. G. Christianson & T. Izbicki. Leiden: 1991,pp. 119-140.
4."God's Presence: Some Cusan Proposals," in Nicholas of Cusa on Christ and the Church, ed. G.Christianson & T.Isbicki. Leiden: 1996, pp. 241-249.
5. "Albertus Magnus";"Nicholas of Cusa," in Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia,ed. J.M. Jeep. New York: 2001, pp. 8-10, 565-567.
6."Meister Eckhart in Nicholas of Cusa's 1456 Sermon: Ubi est qui natus est rex Iudeorum?" in Nicholas of Cusa and His Age: Intellect and Spirituality, ed. T.Izbicki & C. Bellitto. Leiden: 2002, pp. 105-125. (Includes translation of Latin sermon.)
7."Knowledge and the Human Mind" in Introducing Nicholas of Cusa, ed. C.M.Bellitto, T.Izbicki, & G.Christianson. NY/Mahwah, NJ: 2004, pp. 299-318.