A graduate of Morehouse College and the University of Michigan with a Ph.D. in History, Millery’s teaching and research interests include the intellectual history of African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is the author of From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Haiti and Pan Americanism, 1870-1964 (University Press of Florida, 2010) and the editor of The Idea of Haiti: Rethinking Crisis and Development (University of Minnesota Press, 2013).