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Reuben Jonathan Miller is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago's Crown Family School and Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, and a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. His work focuses on race, punishment, and social welfare policy, with a particular emphasis on the aftermath of mass incarceration. Miller's research integrates 15 years of fieldwork with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals and their communities in Chicago, Detroit, and beyond. He has conducted global studies on carceral systems, including in the UK, EU, Africa, and the Caribbean.
Miller holds a PhD from Loyola University Chicago, an AM from the University of Chicago, and a BA from Chicago State University. His landmark book Halfway Home (2021) won multiple prestigious awards, including the Michael J. Hindelang Award and PROSE Awards. In 2022, he received the MacArthur 'Genius Grant,' praised for his ability to humanize marginalized communities while critiquing systemic injustices.
His current projects include a transnational study of Black emancipation in port cities linked to the transatlantic slave trade and an exploration of societal responses to violence. Miller has been a visiting scholar at Dartmouth College and the University of Texas at Austin, and a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study and Rockefeller Foundation.
- Awards: MacArthur Fellowship, Hindelang Award, PROSE Awards, Herbert Jacob Prize
- Grants: Funded by HUD, NIH, and MacArthur Foundation
- Labs/Teams: Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams on carceral studies and social welfare policy
