Education:

Ph.D., Syracuse University

Expertise:

Cultural anthropology, international health and development, cultural heritage policy, social inequality, gender, South Asia

Background:

Professor Miller received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in anthropology from Syracuse University. She joined the Elliott School in 1993 as a specialist in the anthropology of international development. Before that, she taught at the University of Rochester, SUNY Cortland, Ithaca College, Cornell University, and the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Miller has done most of her research on gender and health issues in India, but she has also studied rural development in Bangladesh, low-income household budgeting in Jamaica, and Hindu adolescents in Pittsburgh. Her current research takes three directions: child survival and gender inequality in India, health and illness patterns cross-culturally as affected by rapid development and population movements, and the role of culture in international policy and programs. Dr. Miller is the director of the Elliott School's research and policy program on Culture in Global Affairs.

Professor Miller teaches undergraduate courses in cultural anthropology and medical anthropology and graduate seminars in medical anthropology and culture, risk and security.

Professor Miller served as the Associate Dean of the Elliott School from July 1999 to August 2002. She is currently serving a three-year term as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the School, starting July 2009.

Selected Publications:

• Cultural Anthropology in a Globalizing World (Pearson, 3rd ed., 2012);
• Cultural Anthropology (Pearson, 6th ed., 2010);
• Anthropology (Allyn & Bacon, 2008);
• Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures, coed. with Alf Hiltebeitel (SUNY Press, 1998);
• Sex and Gender Hierarchies, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1993); and
• The Endangered Sex: Neglect of Female Children in Rural North India (2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1997).

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