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jmiller@utica.edu

Dr. Jeff Miller (he/him/his) is professor of Communication and Media and a Fulbright Scholar (2007, Taiwan) whose teaching and research focuses on the connections between various forms of communication, democratic participation, and social justice.  His current research looks at the history and legacy of racial covenants, redlining, and housing discrimination in Utica, NY, and he recently discussed his findings in a public forum available here: https://utica.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=3ed4daad-f551-417b-b3b7-afa101722b4e.

He has also conducted extensive research for over a decade on the history of community organizing in Syracuse, New York, during the War on Poverty in the 1960s, and regularly presents his research at regional, national, and international conferences, including recent conferences in Dublin, Krakow, London, and Stockholm.

Dr. Miller earned his B.A. in Broadcasting from Buffalo State College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication from University at Buffalo. In 2007 he was Visiting Professor of International Communication Studies at National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taipei, Taiwan. From 1997-2009 he served as a founding member of the Executive Committee of the International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF), which has grown over the past two decades to become the premiere academic conference in the United States for comics studies.

He also serves as director of Films on Thursday, programming and hosting the campus film series for over twenty years, and was faculty adviser to WPNR FM from 1998-2006.  In his free time, he is an avid soccer fan and passionate supporter of both Celtic Football Club (Glasgow, Scotland) and F.C. St. Pauli (Hamburg, Germany).