Research Interests
Black Girlhood | Embodiment | Beauty | Queerness | Asexualities | Disability | School Discipline
Education
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
M.A., University of Cincinnati
M.Ed., DePaul University
B.A., Kenyon College
Awards and Honors
2025 Distinguished Article Award. American Sociological Association. Sexualities Section.
2025 Most Impactful Professor. Department of Sociology. Undergraduate Graduating Class.
Courses Taught
Soc 196: Race, Beauty, and Embodiment
Soc 225: Race and Ethnicity
Soc 273: Social Perspectives on the Family
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Recent Publications
Miles, B. (2025). Capturing Black beauty: Ontological beauty through photo-elicitation. Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, 16(1), 23-40. https://doi.org/10.1386/csfb_00091_1
Toney, K. N., & Miles, B. (2025). Southern BlaQ embodied placemaking in RuPaul’s drag race. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2025.2572463
Winer, C., Carroll, M., Yang, Y., Linder, K., & Miles, B. (2024). “I Didn’t Know Ace Was a Thing”: Bisexuality and pansexuality as identity pathways in asexual identity formation. Sexualities, 27(1-2), 267-289. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607221085485
Linders, A., Miles, B., Broscoe, M., & Money, J. (2023). The sounds of executions: sonic flaws and the transformation of capital punishment. American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 11(2), 162-192. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-021-00150-1
Miles, B. (2023). Black girls' bodies and belonging in the classroom. In Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter (pp. 178-201). Bristol University Press.