Fayneese Miller is dean of the College of Education and Social Services and professor of Human Development, Educational Leadership and Social Policy at the University of Vermont.  Prior to her appointment as dean at UVM, she was associate professor of education and human development and a past director of the Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity in America at Brown University.  Dr. Miller developed and chaired the first Ethnic Studies Program at Brown University.  Dr. Miller is a social psychologist who specializes in the psychosocial development of youth, with special emphasis on such topics as alienation, social identity, and cross-racial friendships.  She has conducted research on black males that was funded by the Eli Lily Foundation.  Dr. Miller serves on the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Truancy Prevention Association (NTPA) Board.  Her work includes a study on perceptions of racial/ethnic bias for the Rhode Island Supreme Court and a project on school-based truancy courts for the Rhode Island Family Court.   In collaboration with NTPA, she recently completed a benchbook on truancy for family court judges.  Dr. Miller has been a visiting associate professor at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and was a National Science Foundation and Salzburg Fellow.  She was a member of the American Council of Education (ACE) 2004-2005 Fellow’s class—a Washington-based fellowship program that prepares future senior executives in higher education.  She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science Task Force on diversity in higher education and the Annie Casey Foundation and Joint Center for Political Studies focus group on reproductive health.   Dr. Miller is a member of the Vermont State Board of Education.

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