Emily Miller

Emily Miller joined PIRL as a postdoctoral fellow after receiving her PhD in Population Studies and Social Policy from Princeton University. She is broadly interested in the intersection of how family, place, and policy contexts shape child outcomes and the transition to adulthood across a diversifying United States. She is especially interested in rural and suburban communities. Her work draws from both quantitative and qualitative tools and is inspired by theories and methods from demography, sociology, history, economics, health, and developmental psychology. Her research and musings have been published in outlets such as the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Preventative Medicine, American Journal of Health Promotion, and Scientific American.

Academic background:

Before pursuing a PhD at Princeton, she received B.S. in Policy Analysis and Management and minored in Inequality Studies at Cornell University. Her research at Cornell covered public health and health communication about addiction, alcohol use, and drunk driving. After Cornell, she worked as a research assistant at Child Trends on a range of projects, including smartphone-based randomized control trials, parenting knowledge focus groups, and measuring Hispanic and Latino diversity across federal datasets. While at Princeton, she participated in two large-scale fieldwork studies about the rural United States and inequality as well as utilized the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine family and child outcomes in the suburban United States in her dissertation. Originally hailing from Western Colorado, she enjoys spending time outside but can also be found weight lifting, reading, and discovering new music and board games.

Research Interests: rural, suburban, neighborhoods, education, family, policy, mixed methods

As a bird lover, Emily is excited to join the Blue Jays, and embrace the Orioles, Ravens, and flamingos she knows can be found around the city.