Professor Elizabeth Miller has been named executive associate dean in the College of Letters and Science where she will lead multiple college-wide efforts.
"I am thrilled to have Professor Miller serve in this role where she will work on several day-to-day inward-facing operations and college-wide projects, including the continuing development of our chair and faculty mentoring programs, building stronger faculty and department collaborations, expanding our interdisciplinary efforts and other college-wide initiatives," said Estella Atekwana, dean of the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis.
Miller most recently served as interim chair for the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. She also previously served as chair and vice chair of the college's Faculty Executive Committee and as chair of the English Department.
Miller's many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. The author of three books, she has received the Stansky Book Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies and the Best Book of the Year Award from the North American Victorian Studies Association.
Since arriving at UC Davis in 2008, Miller has served on the faculty in the Department of English. She has also been a visiting researcher at the University of Granada in Spain and a visiting fellow at Cambridge University. She has served on numerous executive and advisory committees, including the START Committee on Research Excellence. She was also awarded the Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award from Graduate Studies.
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