Karen Miller is professor of history at LaGuardia Community College, the Graduate Center, and the School for Labor and Urban Studies at the City University of New York. She is the author of Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit (2014), as well as an illustrated and abridged version of that book How American City Leaders Built Segregated Neighborhoods while Disavowing Racism (2021). She is co-editor of Prehistories of the War on Terror: A Critical Genealogy with Yumi Lee (2024). She is currently working on a project about settler migration programs in the Philippines that were first devised under the American colonial state. These programs, she shows, not only materially dispossessed Indigenous Filipinos, but established the logics of settler entitlement that have served as an alibi for extractive political economies and their attendant inequalities. Miller directs the Writing in the Disciplines Program at LaGuardia and has co-led five NEH-funded humanities seminars for faculty from across the country. She is active in her union, PSC-CUNY, and in Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, among other organizations. She completed a three-year term on the executive board of the Organization of American Historians in 2025.
Karen Miller
