Sj Miller#Early life and education

{{Short description|American academic and social justice activist}}

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sj Miller (born March 20, 1970){{cite web|title=Miller, sj, 1970-|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006057834.html|website=LC Name Authority File|publisher=Library of Congress|accessdate=March 23, 2017}} is an American academic whose work commonly centers around social justice, literacy, and the confluence of gender and education.{{cite web|last1=Pasquale|first1=Cynthia|title=Five questions for sj Miller|url=https://connections.cu.edu/spotlights/five-questions-sj-miller|website=CU Connections|publisher=University of Colorado Boulder|accessdate=March 22, 2017|date=September 17, 2015}} Miller is a Professor of Teacher Education at the Santa Fe Community College.{{Cite web|last=Miller|first=sj|title=Santa Fe Community College|url=https://www.sfcc.edu/person/sj-miller/}}

Early life and education

Miller was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, attending Santa Fe High School.{{Cite web |last=Barron |first=James |date=2020-08-30 |title=New girls soccer coach at Santa Fe High has had long journey of discovery |url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/new-girls-soccer-coach-at-santa-fe-high-has-had-long-journey-of-discovery/article_b3f2a740-e6ee-11ea-95b0-073eeb8a7ea9.html |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=2020-12-22 |website=Santa Fe New Mexican |language=en}} Miller taught middle and high school English for eight years before going on to earn a PhD in Educational Thought and Socio-Cultural Studies from the University of New Mexico.{{cite news |last1=Rockett |first1=Caitlin |date=April 23, 2015 |title=Queering the classroom |url=https://www.boulderweekly.com/news/queering-the-classroom/ |accessdate=March 22, 2017 |newspaper=Boulder Weekly}}

Miller medically transitioned from female toward male while working as an assistant professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.{{cite web|last1=Miller|first1=sj|date=|title=about dr sj Miller|url=http://www.sjmiller.info/about.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210805072658/http://www.sjmiller.info/about.html|archive-date=August 5, 2021|website=sj Miller|accessdate=August 5, 2021}} Miller was disowned by Miller's father after coming out as transgender.{{cite web|last1=Goldman|first1=Carrie|title=Generation Bullied 2.0 Book Review|url=http://www.chicagonow.com/portrait-of-an-adoption/2013/08/generation-bullied-2-0-book-review/|website=ChicagoNow|accessdate=March 23, 2017|date=August 22, 2013|archive-date=March 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324174043/http://www.chicagonow.com/portrait-of-an-adoption/2013/08/generation-bullied-2-0-book-review/|url-status=dead}}

Career

Miller has held teaching positions at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and as associate professor of literacy studies at University of Colorado Boulder. In 2016, Miller was hired as Deputy Director of Educational Equity at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University.{{cite web|last=Ennis|first=Dawn|title=Trans scholar haunted by frightening brush with Tulsa campus police|url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/08/trans-man-haunted-frightening-brush-tulsa-campus-police/|website=LGBTQ Nation|accessdate=March 22, 2017|date=August 16, 2016}}{{cite web|title=SJ Miller as Deputy Director of Educational Equity Supports and Services|url=http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2016/9/6/SJ_Miller_as_Deputy_Director_of_Educational_Equity_Supports_and_Services|website=NYU Steinhardt|publisher=New York University|accessdate=March 23, 2017|date=September 6, 2016|archive-date=March 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324085242/http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2016/9/6/SJ_Miller_as_Deputy_Director_of_Educational_Equity_Supports_and_Services|url-status=dead}}

Miller is a Professor of Teacher Education in the Teacher Academy at Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, New Mexico,{{Cite web|last=Miller|first=sj|title=SFCC|url=https://www.sfcc.edu/person/sj-miller/}} and holds an additional appointment teaching online courses in the teacher education program at the University of Washington Bothell School of Educational Studies.{{Cite web|title=UWB|url=https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/B/AUT2022/beduc.html}}

Advocacy

In the fall of 2010, Miller helped draft the Beliefs Statement about Social Justice in English Education and helped pass the Resolution on Social Justice in Literacy Education, which informed the newly-vetted CAEP Social Justice Standard 6-the first ever standard in the United States that advances social justice work in teacher preparation for the National Council of Teachers of English.{{cite web |date=April 22, 2016 |title=sj Miller selected for international project embedding social justice into curriculum |url=https://www.colorado.edu/education/2016/04/22/sj-miller-selected-international-project-embedding-social-justice-curriculum |accessdate=March 22, 2017 |website=School of Education |publisher=University of Colorado Boulder}}{{cite news |date=December 1, 2010 |title=Miller Works for Social Justice with National Council Teachers of English |url=https://www.iup.edu/news-item.aspx?id=103067 |accessdate=March 23, 2017 |newspaper=Indiana University of Pennsylvania}} In April 2016, Miller was selected for a project hosted by the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development to integrate social justice education into the mainstream school curriculum.{{cite web |date=June 2016 |title=Languages Group - International Workshop on Embedding, June 2016 |url=http://mgiep.unesco.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Language-Brief-Bios1.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324173709/http://mgiep.unesco.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Language-Brief-Bios1.pdf |archive-date=March 24, 2017 |accessdate=March 23, 2017 |website=MGIEP - A UNESCO Institute}} Miller has written and spoken about the impact of bullying on youth, particularly young people whose gender identities are nonconforming and those in the LGBTQIA+ community.{{cite web |date=April 14, 2015 |title=Under the Radar: Bullying |url=http://www.alan-ya.org/publications/under-the-radar-bullying/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324084927/http://www.alan-ya.org/publications/under-the-radar-bullying/ |archive-date=March 24, 2017 |accessdate=March 23, 2017 |website=ALAN: Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the NCTE}}

Selected awards and recognition

2005: Paul and Kate Farmer English Journal Writing Award, Article of the Year, "Shattering Images of Violence in Young Adult Literature: Strategies for the Classroom"{{cite web |title=Paul and Kate Farmer English Journal Writing Award Winners |url=http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/About/Awards/Farmer_Award_Winners.pdf |accessdate=March 22, 2017 |website=National Council of Teachers of English}}{{cite web |date=May 6, 2015 |title=Associate Professor of Literacy Studies sj Miller honored with Joanne Arnold Courage and Commitment Award |url=https://www.colorado.edu/education/2015/05/06/associate-professor-literacy-studies-sj-miller-honored-joanne-arnold-courage-and |accessdate=March 23, 2017 |website=School of Education |publisher=University of Colorado Boulder}}
2007: Exemplary Book Award, Richard A. Meade Award, National Council on Teacher Education, "Unpacking the Loaded Teacher Matrix: Negotiating Space and Time Between University and Secondary English Classrooms"
2015: Joanne Arnold Courage and Commitment Award, University of Colorado Boulder
2017: Exemplary Research Award, American Educational Research Association, Division K, Teaching and Teacher Education, "Teaching, Affirming and Recognizing Trans and Gender Creative Youth: A Queer Literacy Framework"{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=2017 Division Award Winners |url=http://www.aera.net/About-AERA/Awards/Division-Awards |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171229052321/http://www.aera.net/About-AERA/Awards/Division-Awards |archive-date=2017-12-29 |access-date=2018-03-13 |website=American Education Research Association |language=en-US}}
2019: AERA Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Research Award{{Cite web |title=Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Research Award |url=https://www.aera.net/About-AERA/Awards/Distinguished-Contributions-to-Gender-Equity-in-Education-Research-Award |access-date=2021-04-22 |website=www.aera.net}}

Selected publications

=Books=

{{Cite book|last=Miller|first=sj|title=Unpacking the loaded teacher matrix: Negotiating space and time between university and secondary English classrooms.|publisher=Peter Lang|year=2007|isbn=978-0820486765}}
{{Cite book|last=Miller|first=sj|title=Narratives of social justice teaching: How English teachers negotiate theory and practice between preservice and inservice spaces|publisher=Peter Lang|year=2008|isbn=978-1433101274}}
{{Cite book|last=Miller|first=sj|title=Change matters: Critical essays on moving social justice research from theory to policy.|publisher=Peter Lang|year=2010|isbn=978-1433106828}}
{{Cite book|last1=Miller|first1=sj|last2=Burns|first2=L.|first3=T.S.|last3=Johnson|title=Generation BULLIED 2.0: Prevention and intervention strategies for our most vulnerable students.|publisher=Peter Lang|year=2013|isbn=978-1433120718}}
{{Cite book|editor=sj Miller|title=Teaching, affirming, and recognizing trans and gender creative youth: A queer literacy framework.|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2016|isbn=978-1-349-92939-9}}
{{Cite book|last=Miller|first=sj|title=Educators queering academia: Critical memoirs|publisher=Peter Lang|year=2016|isbn=9781433134302}}
{{Cite book|last=Miller|first=sj|title=Enseñando, afirmando, y reconociendo a jóvenes trans* y de género creative: Un marco de enseñanza quee|publisher=Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado|year=2018|isbn=978-9563571363}}
{{Cite book|last1=Miller|first1=sj|first2=C.|last2=Mayo|first3=R.|last3=Hoskin|first4=J.|last4=Green|title=Navigating trans*+ and complex gender identities.|publisher=Bloomsbury|year=2019|isbn=9781350061057}}
{{Cite book|last=Miller|first=sj|title=About gender identity justice in schools and communities|publisher=Teachers College Press|year=2019|isbn=978-0807761250}}

=Publications =

{{cite journal|last1=Miller|first1=s.|title=Shattering Images of Violence in Young Adult Literature: Strategies for the Classroom|journal=English Journal|date=May 2005|volume=94|issue=5|pages=87–93|doi=10.2307/30047360|jstor=30047360}}
{{cite journal|last1=Miller|first1=s|title=Mythology of the norm: Disrupting the culture of bullying in schools|journal=English Journal|date=2012|volume=101|issue=6|pages=107–109|doi=10.58680/ej201220561|url=http://www.ncte.org/journals/ej/issues/v101-6|url-access=subscription}}
{{cite journal|last1=Miller|first1=sj|last2=Alsup|first2=Janet|title=Reclaiming English Education: Rooting Social Justice in Dispositions|journal=English Education|publisher=NCTE|date=April 2014|volume=46|issue=3|pages=195–215|doi=10.58680/ee201424659 |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/dd0dcd8ed24c49eceef44950fce22326/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=34722|url-access=subscription}}
{{cite journal|last=Miller|first=s|title=Text complexity and "comparable literary merit" in young adult literature|journal=The ALAN Review|volume=41|issue=2|date=2014|pages=44–55|doi=10.21061/alan.v41i2.a.5 |doi-access=free}}
{{cite journal|last1=Miller|first1=sj|title=A queer literacy framework promoting (a)gender and (a)sexuality self-determination and justice|journal=English Journal|date=2015|volume=104|issue=3|pages=37–44|doi=10.58680/ej201527209 |url=http://www.ncte.org/journals/ej/issues/v104-5|url-access=subscription}}
{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=sj|title=Social justice policymaking in teacher education from conception to application: Realizing Standard VI|journal=Teachers College Record|volume=119|issue=2|pages=1-38}}
{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=sj|title=Sex and gender in transition in US schools: Ways forward|journal=Sex Education|volume=18|issue=4|pages=345-359}}
{{Cite journal |last=Miller |first=sj |title=Reframing schooling to liberate gender identity |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15210960.2018.1447067 |journal=Multicultural Perspectives|date=2018 |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=70–80 |doi=10.1080/15210960.2018.1447067 |url-access=subscription }}
{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=sj|title=Discussing transgender topics within gay-straight alliances: Factors that could promote more frequent conversations|journal=International Journal of Transgenderism|volume=7|issue=19|pages=119-131}}
{{Cite book|last=Miller|first=sj|title=Theoretical models and processes of literacy edition 7|publisher=Routledge|date=2018}}
{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=sj|title=The Impact and Role of Emotions in Schools for Teachers and Students with Complex Gender Identities|journal=Teachers College Record|volume=121|issue=13|pages=1-16}}
{{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=sj|title=Gender Identity Complexities Turn|journal=GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies|volume=26|issue=2|pages=239-242}}
{{Cite book|last=Mayo|first=Cris|title=Queer, Trans, and Intersectional Theory in Educational Practice: Student, Teacher, and Community Experiences (1st ed.)|publisher=Routledge|date=2019|url=https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367816469}}

= Edited series =

{{Cite book|last=Miller|first=sj|title=Spaces In-between: Beyond Binary Gender Identities and Sexualities Series.|publisher=Teachers College Press}}
{{Cite book|last=Miller|first=sj|title=Social Justice Across Contexts in Education.|publisher=Peter Lang}}

Personal life

Miller enjoys participating in sports, including swimming, running, and cycling, and received a full ride scholarship to U.C. Berkeley to play soccer.

Miller is agender and does not use any personal pronouns.{{cite news |last1=Morales |first1=Jennifer |date=March 4, 2019 |title=Born to Create a New World |url=https://ourliveswisconsin.com/article/born-to-create-a-new-world/ |access-date=October 29, 2023 |work=Our Lives}}