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