About
Vanessa Miller (she/her) specializes in education law (K-12 and higher education). She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work focuses on race and the law, school and university police, school crime and safety, and the role of the courts in education law and policy. She is particularly interested in the experiences of Latina students impacted by the school-prison nexus and the broader criminal legal system.
Current Work
My scholarship focuses on the racial inequalities found within the education and criminal legal system. This includes the overpolicing of schools and universities, racial or gender biases within the judicial system, and targeted efforts to delegitimize critical theory.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Education Law, campus police