Kevin Miller
School of Social Work
Kevin M. Miller, Ph.D., MSW, MA is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Dominican University in River Forest, IL. He is also the Director of the Empowering Counseling Program Participatory Science Initiative and a Psychotherapist at Evanston Counseling in Evanston, IL. His research utilizes critical participatory methods to build out-of-school programs that help youth develop resistance and resilience against structural violence and oppression and build critical consciousness. More specifically, he is interested in using critical community-based participatory action research, and mixed methods research designs with a strong critical participatory component, with youth of color in out-of-school programs to develop resistance and resilience against structural poverty and racism, community and structural violence, and oppressive social forces. Additionally, Dr. Miller's research focuses on His practice and research focus on using humanistic group therapy principles and Frerian problem-posing education principles to promote critical social dialogue and critical consciousness. Kevin utilizes structural social work theory and a critical human rights approach throughout his practice and research. He is interested in the science of social work and how highly participatory research can redefine and decolonize ways of knowing and processes of knowledge production.
Miller, K.M., Tyson McCrea, K., Sarna, V., Donnelly, W., Fitzgibbons, G., Kessler, J., Onyeka, O., Matthews, C., Richards, M., Daniels, E., & Denton, D. (in press). “A bond as strong as a lock and chain”: Photovoice as a human rights-based window into youths’ theories of helping and experiences of cross-age mentoring in low-income urban communities of color. Qualitative Social Work.
Lee, S., Tyson, K., Sorenson, B., Wynn, N., & Miller, K. (in press). Towards a Theory of Resistance for an Emancipatory Social Work. Stories of Resistance. Journal of Progressive Human Service: Radical Thought and Praxis.
Tyson McCrea, K., Miller, K., Watson, H., Moore, A., Guthrie, D., Malazarte, N., Miller, E., Jenkins, G., & Lane, D. (2024). Street-Based Social Work Praxis: An “Un-Manual” for Advancing Human Rights and Identifying Social Safety Net Failures with Youth of Color Experiencing Poverty. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/10443894231219846.
Tyson McCrea, K., Richards, M., Wilkins, K., Moore, A., Miller, K., Onyeka, C., Watson, H., Denton, D., Temple, U., Smith, T., & Daniels, E. (2024), “We are not all gangbangers”: Youth in high-poverty urban U.S. communities of color describe their attitudes toward violence, struggles, and resilience. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 1–24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10911359.2023.2295516.
Ayalew, Y., McCrea, K., Miller, K., & Matthews, C. (2023). The promise of digital Out-of-School programs for supporting youth in Under-resourced communities: Participatory principles for human rights-based virtual youth groups. Social Work with Groups, 47(4), 337–352. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01609513.2023.2285755.
Miller, K. (2022). "They’re not closing this school, we won’t let them." Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, 7, 36–45. DOI: 10.1007/s41134-021-00166-0.
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