About the Book Review Editor (2019- )

Our book review editor, Matthew Lee Miller, is Professor of History at the University of Northwestern in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of The American YMCA and Russian Culture: The Preservation and Expansion of Orthodox Christianity, 1900-1940 (Lexington Books, 2013) and editor of John R. Mott, the American YMCA, and Revolutionary Russia (Slavica Publishers/Indiana University, 2020).

After receiving his BA from Miami University and MA from Wheaton College, Illinois, Dr. Miller earned his PhD in modern Russian and European history from the University of Minnesota. In 1990 and 1991 he experienced the final months of the Soviet Union while living in Leningrad. From 1997 to 2008 he lived with his family in Moscow, serving with the Russian-American Christian University and the Evangelical Free Church.

Dr. Miller is completing a biography of Paul B. Anderson (1894-1985), a dedicated advocate for Orthodox Christians who supported the YMCA Press, the Russian Student Christian Movement, and the St. Sergius Theological Academy in Paris.

An article on Paul B. Anderson by Dr. Miller was published in Messenger of the Russian State Humanities University: Political Science, History, International Relations in 2022. It may be downloaded below:

“Paul B. Anderson and the 1956 Delegation of US Church Leaders to Moscow”