Dr. Robert Miller

Dr. Robert L. Miller, Jr. is a cross-cultural social work researcher and Associate Professor at The State University of New York at Albany, joining the Social Welfare faculty in 2000. He examines the intersection of HIV prevention, social justice and spirituality in the lives of Black gay men and transgender women, as well as Black clergy who are publicly and theologically supportive of Black sexual and gender minorities. He is the Inaugural Research Fellow for the Desmond Tutu Center for Spirituality and The Civil Society at the University of The Western Cape in South Africa where he taught “The US Africa Partnerships to Build Stronger Communities” examining the social and health policies undergirding social work services in gender rights and child welfare coupled with HIV prevention. As a visiting professor at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at The University of California, San Francisco Medical School, he has supported social work doctoral students in Ghana, Namibia, South Africa and Ethiopia.