His first book, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration is based on 15 years of research and practice with currently and formerly incarcerated men, women, their families, partners, and friends in Chicago, Detroit, and a number of cities across the United States. To capture the effects of crime control in global cities under different public policy regimes, Miller conducts ongoing fieldwork in the UK and throughout the EU, and will begin fieldwork on the African Continent and in the Caribbean. He is currently conducting research on the “moral worlds” of people we’ve deemed violent and a comparative study of punishment and social welfare policy in port cities that were most involved in the transatlantic slave trade. He is working on a new book, tentatively titled The Least of These: Empire, Emancipation and the Many Uses of Violence, that examines the institutional forms that emerged in the wake of black freedom to incorporate and exclude newly free Black people and the poor white workers drawn into a slave economy and what that moment of political possibility might tell us about the kind of world we might make for ourselves in this one. Miller was a 2022 MacArthur fellow and winner of the PROSE award for Excellence in the Social Sciences for Halfway Home. Halfway Home was also a finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. Miller holds a Ph.D. from Loyola University Chicago, an AM from the University of Chicago, and a BA from Chicago State University.