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• Modern American History, Cultural History
  
  

• Phd University of Wisconsin - Madison, August 1999 - American History
  
• BA Rutgers University  - December, 1989

• SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2004.
• Research Grants from the Presidential Library Foundations of George H.W. Bush (2003); Lyndom B. Johnson (2002); and Gerald R. Ford (1997).
• Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship, 1996-1997. 
• History of Science Society's Schuman Prize, 1996. 
• Jacob Javits Fellow, 1991-1996. 

• Modern American History Survey
• History of Science and Technology in America
• Modern American Dream: Economics and U.S. Society
• Undergraduate Research Methods
• Modern American Cultural History
• American Environmental History
• America since 1929
• Graduate Reading Seminar in Modern American History
  

• "International Science in Antarctica," in David N. Livingstone and Ronald L. Numbers eds., Modern Science in National and International Context. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.)
• "Imagining American Science and Technology," in T. Gregory Garvey and Anna Maslenikova eds., American Studies Reader (St. Petersberg, 2006).
• "Radiant Cuisine: The Commercial Fate of Food Irradiation in the United States," Technology and Culture, October 2004.
• "This is War! : Network Radio and World War II Propaganda in America" - in review by Journal of Radio Studies, June 2004.
• "Re-Imagining U.S. Antarctic Research as a Defining Endeavor of a Deserving World Leader, 1957-1991," Public Understanding of Science, January 2004.

• "Outer Space, Antarctica and Changing Sentiments about American Exploration," Organization of American Historians Conference, March 2008.
• "The Greatest Legacy of the IGY: Antarctic Science as a Force for Peaceful Internationalism," The International geophysical Year: A 50-Year Retrospective (part of the IUGG Conference), July 2007.
• "Documenting Science and Technology in the Digital Age," Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, April 2005
• "The Space Frontier and the Shifting Terrain of American National Identity," Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 2005.
• "Focusing With Faulty Lenses: The Importance and Limitations of Historical Inquiry," Keynote Lecture, Strong Museum, Rochester, NY, March 2004.
• "Conservative Utopianism and Cold War Therapeutic Culture,"  The Society for Utopian Studies Conference, October 2000.

• Dr. Spiller is working on a manuscript addressing constructions of national identity through large, federally funded scientific research and technology projects in post-World War II America.