James Robert Millar (1936 – November 30, 2008) was an American political scientist and economist.
He went on to pursue a doctorate degree at Cornell University, including a year spent as an exchange student at Moscow State University.
[1] The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research awards the annual "James R. Millar Graduate Student Prize" for the best graduate student research paper in the humanities and social sciences regarding current or former communist regimes, in honor of Millar.
[2] Professor Millar joined the faculty at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Economics [3] in 1965.
He remained there until 1989 when he joined the faculty at George Washington University where he retired from in 2004.