Jody Miller

Who is Jody Miller?

Dr. Jody Miller is a feminist criminology Professor and Associate Dean at the School of Criminal Justice at the Rutgers University. Her education includes: B.S. in Journalism from Ohio University, 1989; M.A. in Sociology from Ohio University, 1990; M.A. in Women's Studies at Ohio State University, 1991; and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Southern California in 1996. She specializes in feminist theory and qualitative research methods. Her research focuses on gender, crime and victimization, in the context of urban communities, the commercial sex industry, sex tourism, and youth gangs. Dr. Miller has also been elected as the Executive Counsellor of the American Society of Criminology for 2009 and she has also received the University of Missouri-St. Louis Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Service in 2007. Jody Miller is also well known for her ethnographic work during graduate school at a bar called Mac's in the Columbus, Ohio Short North area. While at Mac's she served many pints of ale to future criminologists then studying at The Ohio State University including international idol Ramiro Martinez, Jr.