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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Sociology

Brittney Miles

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

Black Girlhood, Embodiment, Beauty, Disability, Asexualities, School Discipline

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Sociology

Recent Publications

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.

Allen, S., & Miles, B. (2020). Unapologetic Blackness in Action: Embodied Resistance and Social Movement Scenes in Black Celebrity Activism. Humanity & Society, 44(4), 375-402. https://doi.org/10.1177/0160597620932886

Miles, B. S., & Akinboyede, O. (2020). Telling and Re-Telling: Black Girls’ Stories Together. In D. Apugo, L. Mawhinney, & A. Mbilishaka (Eds.), Strong Black Girls: Reclaiming Schools in Their Own Image Teachers College Press.

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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Sociology

3120 Lincoln Hall

702 S. Wright St.

Urbana, IL 61801

(217) 333-1950

Email: sociology@illinois.edu

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