Biography
Professor Vanessa Miller teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, and a seminar on crime and education. She is an interdisciplinary scholar who researches the policing of American schools and universities. Before joining the FIU College of Law, Miller was a faculty member at Indiana University Bloomington where she taught courses on education law and was the inaugural postdoctoral associate for the Race and Crime Center for Justice at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. She received her BA in criminology, philosophy from the University of Florida, her MA in philosophy and education from Columbia University, and her JD and PhD in education policy studies from The Pennsylvania State University. Upon graduating law school, she worked at a leading education law firm in California.
Miller’s academic writing considers how the law governs police authority and police interactions within and around educational institutions, and she relies on legal and qualitative methodologies to address educational inequities. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in several law and peer reviewed journals, including the Harvard Education Review, Denver Law Review, Buffalo Law Review, Educational Researcher, and the Washington & Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice. She has also authored book chapters on the power and practices of campus police. She is originally from Miami, Florida and grew up less than five miles from the FIU Modesto Madique Campus.
Education
- JD, The Pennsylvania State University—Penn State Law
- PhD, The Pennsylvania State University
- MA, Columbia University
- BA, University of Florida