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Telephone: (617) 552-0760 Office Location: 21 Campanella Way, 435 Email: karen.miller.1@bc.edu |
Education
Ph.D., Univ. of California-Santa Barbara, 1986
Fields of Interest
Afro-American history; history of African-American women; American social history; history of higher education
Academic Profile
Professor Miller teaches Afro-American history and the history of Black women in the United States. She has also taught and done research in the areas of institutional and social policy. Her current project - "Black Studies in Higher Education: The California Experience, 1965-1985" - treats the history of Black Studies within the context of twentieth-century higher education. She is also working on a series of articles concerning the intersection of gender, myth, and public policy. She has been a fellow at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard and has received grants and fellowships from the Ford Foundation National Research Council and the University of Illinois.
Representative Publications
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"Tacit Understandings and Practical Considerations: The Politics of Race and Gender in the Academy" in Black Women Scholars/Work and Struggle: Selected Papers from the 1994 Black Women in the Academy Conference (1995)
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"Black Studies in California Higher Education" the Peoples of Color in the West (1994)
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"Race, Power and the Emergence of Black Studies in Higher Education" American Studies (1990)