Sarah Miller, Ph.D.

Sarah Miller, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of sociology, jointly appointed with the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, at Boston University. An ethnographer specializing in youth cultures, she studies how adolescents navigate intersectional inequalities at school and on social media. She is the author of The Tolerance Generation: Growing Up Online in the Anti-Bullying Era, which examines how teens grapple with bullying in the digital age and the industry built to prevent it.

Miller’s research has been funded by the American Sociological Association, the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, and the National Science Foundation, and her next book will focus on how school-shooting threats shape young people’s experience of K–12 education. As a public sociologist, she has worked on initiatives advancing adolescent health and sexuality-education policy. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.