Profile

Elizabeth Carroll Miller is currently a doctoral candidate in Sociology and an instructor in Women's and Gender Studies. She earned a BA in Environmental Policy and City and Regional Planning from the UNC-Chapel Hill in 2006. In 2008, Elizabeth completed her MA in Sociology at the University of Arkansas where she worked with Dr. Kevin Fitzpatrick on projects relating to homelessness, mental health and social capital.

While at the University of Oregon, Elizabeth has worked with Dr. Jim Elliott, who is currently advising her doctoral dissertation entitled "Land, Labor, and Livestock: Industrial Poultry Farming and Farm Management". For her dissertation, Elizabeth is conducting ethnographic fieldwork on industrial poultry farms, as well as in-depth interviews with farmers and analyzing secondary data relating to the poultry industry over time.

Elizabeth recently completed a collaborative research project with Dr. Scott Coltrane, Tracy DeHahn, and Lauren Stewart which resulted in the publication of "Fathers and the Flexibility Stigma" in the Journal of Social Issues. Her areas of research interest include: environmental sociology, gender, sexuality, agriculture and food studies, stratification, and quantitative methodology. Elizabeth has taught classes on research methods, statistics, women's and gender studies, sexuality, environmental sociology, and environmental justice.