Patricia Miller, a respected scholar and professor of psychology at the University of Florida, has been named director of the Women’s Studies Program at UGA. She will succeed Pat Del Rey, who is retiring at the end of spring semester.
“I’m looking forward to joining the strong Women’s Studies Program and the impressive psychology department at UGA,” says Miller. “Pat Del Rey has led the Women’s Studies Program to prominence and has created a solid foundation for the further development of the program. I’m eager to meet the many excellent faculty and students from across the university who are involved in women’s studies or would like to become more involved in it.”
Miller’s areas of specialization include cognitive development, theories of development, and gender. Since the mid-’80s she has been active in the Women’s Studies Program and the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research at the University of Florida, and served on the executive committee for many years.
Miller received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas in 1966 and her doctoral degree from the University of Minnesota in 1970. She then held faculty positions at the University of Michigan and the University of Florida. At Florida, she was promoted to full professor in 1986, and served as associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences from 1995 to 1999. During 1999-2000, she was a visiting scholar in the department of psychology at Emory University.
A member of Phi Beta Kappa, she is the author or co-author of four books, including Theories of Developmental Psychology, which is now in its fourth edition. She was co-editor of Toward a Feminist Developmental Psychology, published in 2000. Miller serves on the editorial boards of two major journals--the Psychological Bulletin and the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
She is also the author of numerous research articles published in journals as well as chapters in many scholarly books. Miller is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and has received research grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation for her work. She also received a teaching award at the University of Florida.
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