[1] Born and raised in upstate New York, Miller then attended Princeton University[2] and received a PhD from George Washington University in 1974 with a doctoral dissertation on Qing dynasty politics.
[3] Miller was a professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School from 1999 to 2014.
[4] She has been a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a lecturer in East Asian Studies at Stanford University since 1999.
[4] From 2001 to 2018, Miller was also the general editor of China Leadership Monitor, a quarterly journal providing open-source analysis of the internal workings of the Chinese Communist Party.
[6] She has made extensive public comments about this transition, including at TEDxStanford in 2015.