Full-Time Lecturer
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Sarah Miller is a sociologist whose research focuses on youth, education, and new media. Her current book project, The Tolerance Generation: Growing Up Online in an Anti-Bullying Era (under advance contract with the University of Chicago Press), explores how intersectional inequalities and digital cultures shape young people’s experiences with bullying. Her upcoming research focuses on the gendered and racialized dimensions of shooting threats within school communities. Miller’s work has been published in Gender & Society, Sexualities, and the Journal of Youth and Adolescence and funded by the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, National Science Foundation, the American Sociological Association, and the Center for Research on Families. As a public sociologist, she has worked on a variety of initiatives focused on advancing adolescent health and sexuality education policy in collaboration with the Public Engagement Project, Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality, Futures of Sex Education, and Advocates for Youth. At BU, Miller serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the WGS Program and teaches courses on race, class, gender, sexualities, criminology, and feminist methodologies.