Charles A. Miller (political scientist)

("Chuck") Miller (October 27, 1937 – March 22, 2019) was an author[1] and Professor of Politics and American Studies at Lake Forest College.

Among the courses Miller taught or co-taught were constitutional law; civil liberties; the Politics of Aristotle; law and literature; U.S. foreign policy; the political economy of health care; the Jewish Experience in America; Nature in American Life; and courses comparing Justices Holmes and Brandeis; The Federalist and Democracy in America; and The Odyssey and Walden.

At Lake Forest College he was instrumental in establishing the Christopher C. Mojekwu Memorial Fund for Intercultural Understanding in honor of a late member of the faculty.

A Guide to the Mimsy Words and Frabjous Quotations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, and The Hunting of the Snark (Trackaday, 1984) and Ship of State: The Nautical Metaphors of Thomas Jefferson, With Numerous Examples by other Writers from Classical Antiquity to the Present (University Press of America, 2003).

He wrote or edited pamphlets: "African-American Life at Monticello: The Paintings of Nathaniel K. Gibbs" (2002), "The Shenandoah Valley in History and Literature" (2003) for children, a guide to Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore (2007), and Brandeis: The Legacy of a Justice, Marquette University Law Review, vol.