Meet Program Director Dr. Erin Miller

Dr. Erin Miller

Dr. Erin Miller (she/her/hers) is a Professor in the Reading and Elementary Education Department in the Cato College of Education at UNC Charlotte. She co-directs the Graduate Certificate program in Self, Systems, and Social Transformation. She is also the coordinator of the Literacy/Reading Strand for the Curriculum and Instruction PhD. Program.

Her scholarly work won a Taylor and Francis Distinguished Article award, an Outstanding Dissertation Award, and has been included in Taylor and Francis’ Key Research Collection on Critical Race Theory. Her work has been published in journals such as: Curriculum Inquiry, Urban Education, Journal of Language and Literacy Education, The Urban Review, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Ethnography and Education, Action in Teacher Education, and Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education. Dr. Miller’s recent co-authored book, Storytelling and Improvisation as Anti-Racist Pedagogies: Challenging White Supremacy in Elementary Education, is the winner of the Literacy Research Association (LRA) 2024 David E. Fry Book Award. Dr. Miller was a University of North Carolina at Charlotte 2021 finalist for the Bank of America Excellence in Teaching award. She is also the co-editor of an international research journal, Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.