{"id":39752,"date":"2019-01-15T10:35:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T15:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?p=39752"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:06:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:06:40","slug":"daniel-miller-succeeds-ellen-devoe-as-director-of-ssws-doctoral-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/daniel-miller-succeeds-ellen-devoe-as-director-of-ssws-doctoral-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Associate Professor Daniel Miller Succeeds Ellen DeVoe as Director of SSW\u2019s Doctoral Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ssw\/files\/2019\/01\/daniel_miller_headshot-423x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"278\" class=\"wp-image-39756 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/academics\/phd-program\/\">doctoral program<\/a> at Boston University School of Social Work will undergo a leadership change as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/ellen-devoe\/\">Dr. Ellen DeVoe<\/a> departs from her role as Director after five and a half years fostering the program\u2019s success. Beginning July 1, 2019, BUSSW Associate Professor and Chair of Human Behavior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/daniel-p-miller\/\">Dr. Daniel Miller<\/a> will assume the Director position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miller, an associate professor and member of the PhD advisory committee, has been continuously involved in the program since its in-house transition, developing and teaching classes while mentoring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/resources\/current-phd-students\/\">students<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miller says, \u201c[I\u2019m] excited about \u00a0the opportunity to take over the leadership of our PhD program. It has made tremendous gains in the past few years, and I look forward to continuing to bolster and grow one of the key programs of our School.\u201d Miller also expressed his gratitude to DeVoe, \u201can excellent steward of the program.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both DeVoe and Miller will uphold their professorial and research positions at BUSSW throughout the leadership shift, which was announced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/jorge-delva\/\">Dean Jorge Delva<\/a> in early January.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The doctoral program at Boston University School of Social Work will undergo a leadership change as Dr. Ellen DeVoe departs from her role as Director after five and a half years fostering the program\u2019s success. Beginning July 1, 2019, BUSSW Associate Professor and Chair of Human Behavior Dr. Daniel Miller will assume the Director position. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7547,7427,7433,4057],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39752"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80667,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39752\/revisions\/80667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}