Laura L. Miller is a senior social scientist at RAND. For more than 30 years she has studied the lives of military personnel and their families through surveys, observations, discussion groups, one-on-one interviews, and analyses of military policy, program, and personnel data. Research topics include military culture and organization; deployment experiences; social integration; sexual harassment and sexual assault; social problems; health and well-being; military families; military spouse education and employment; unit cohesion and morale; and civil-military relations. To collect primary data, Miller has traveled to more than 45 stateside installations and to overseas bases and operations in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Germany, Haiti, Hungary, Korea, Kuwait, Macedonia, Qatar, the Serb Republic, and Somalia. Miller received her Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University.
Ph.D. and M.A. in sociology, Northwestern University; B.A. in European and Soviet studies, University of Redlands
Chair and President, Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society
