Robin Lin Miller, Ph.D.

 

Email: mill1493@msu.edu

Area of Interest

HIV/AIDS prevention and care; research on evaluation; evaluation theory; evaluation history; implementation science

Faculty Information

Robin Lin Miller received her Ph.D. in Community Psychology from New York University, with a minor in quantitative methods. She is currently Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University and area director for doctoral training in community psychology. Miller has 30 years of experience evaluating HIV prevention and care programs in community-based and clinical environments. Prior to assuming an academic career, she directed program evaluation services at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in New York City. During her 7.5-year tenure, she designed and conducted evaluations of diverse prevention programs for gay and bisexual men and of care programs for persons living with HIV.  Since moving to an academic position, she has continued to evaluate HIV prevention and care programs and structural interventions, especially those targeting Black gay and bisexual youth. She has an overarching interest in the interconnections among evaluation’s theories, methods, and approaches to practice. She co-leads a 15-year effort to document the oral history of evaluation theory development in the United States with colleagues Melvin M. Mark, Jean King, and Valerie Caracelli. Dr. Miller is an elected Fellow of the Society for Community Research and Action and the American Psychological Association. She is a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Evaluation Association and has served the Association in multiple roles, including Chair of the Publications Oversight Working Group, Evaluator Competency Task Force member, Annual Conference Chair, and Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Evaluation. Further, she is a past recipient of the American Evaluation Association’s Marica Guttentag Early Career Award and the 2011 recipient of its Robert Ingle Award honoring service to the profession of evaluation. Her most recent evaluation is of a 7-country human rights advocacy initiative to reduce barriers to HIV care for gay and bisexual men and transgender women.

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