Kristen Miller
Adjunct Lecturer
Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice
EMAIL: kmiller@bmcc.cuny.edu
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I am particularly interested in the ways that Black, and other racialized communities, use cultural practices to imagine, feel, and enact freedom. For my dissertation, I am conducting a multi-sited ethnography of Black biking subcultures in the United States and South Africa.
I also work as an Adjunct Professor at Hunter College and have taught courses on Social Movements & Social Change as well as Sex & Gender. Prior to attending graduate school, I worked as an organizer for many years within the Movement For Black Lives.
Expertise
Social Movements; Culture and Aesthetics; Subcultures; Performance Studies; Black Studies and Diaspora; Affect;
Embodiment; Geography/ Urban Space; Gender and Intersectionality; Black Feminist Theory and Methods; Postcolonial
Theory; Queer of Color Critique; Ethnography
Degrees
The City University of New York (CUNY), Graduate Center New York, NY
Ph.D. in Sociology Department, GPA: 4.0 Expected Spring 2025
The City University of New York New York, NY
MA in Sociology June 2022
Northeastern University Boston, MA
B.A. in International Affairs May 2015
Courses Taught
Research and Projects
My research is focused on social movements, Black studies, culture and aesthetics, performance theory and everyday embodied practices
Publications
Miller, Kristen L., and James M. Jasper. “Indignation: Immoral Shocks, Moral Actions.” in Emotions in Culture and
Everyday Life, edited by M. H. Jacobsen. Routledge. (2023).
Miller, Kristen L., Review of “Walking Mannequins: How Race and Gender Shape Retail Clothing Work,” by Joya
Misra and Kyla Walters, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. (2023).
Honors, Awards and Affiliations
- 2023-2024 Fulbright Research Award
- 2023-2024 Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies (BRES) Doctoral Fellowship, BRES Collaboration Hub
at The Graduate Center, CUNY - Summer 2023 Doctoral Student Research Grant, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- 2022-2023 LaGuardia and Wagner Archives Graduate Fellowship
- Summer 2022 Graduate Center Early Research Initiative/ Connect New York Fellowship
- 2021-2022 Irwin Polishook Graduate Scholarship Award, The Belle Zeller Scholarship, CUNY
- 2019-2024 The Graduate Center Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- 2019-2024 CUNY Graduate Center GAB Fellowship
- 2019-2024 CUNY Graduate Center Tuition Fellowship
- 2019-2024 Provost Enhancement Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Additional Information
Professional Memberships
- American Sociological Association (ASA)
- Association of Black Sociologists (ABS)
- American Studies Association (ASA)
- Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)
