Professor Miller-Bernal’s particular interest in teaching and research are centered on women’s higher education, with special attention paid to single-gender versus coeducational learning. She studies the history and present condition of historically black colleges, as well as women’s status in India and several African societies. She enjoys the small classes she teaches at Wells, the opportunity to really get to know her students, and years of continuing relationships she holds with alums.

Education:
1969     B.A. SUNY Stony Brook
1970     M.A. SUNY Stony Brook
1978     Ph.D. Cornell University

Select Publications:
Miller-Bernal, L., & Poulson, S.L. (Eds.). The Challenge of Coeducation: Women’s Colleges since the 1960’s. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, Forthcoming.

Miller-Bernal, L., & Poulson, S.L. (Eds.). Going Coed: Women’s Experiences in Formerly Men’s College’s and Universities, 1950 2000. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004.

Miller-Bernal, L. “Conservative Intent, Liberating Outcomes: The History of Coordinate Colleges for Women.” Gender in Policy and Practice. Datnow, A & Hubbard, L. (Eds.). New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2002.

Miller-Bernal, L. Separate by Degree: Women’s Experiences in Single Sex and Coeducational Colleges. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.

Courses Taught:
Principles of Sociology
Social Problems
Medical Sociology
Research Methods in the Social Sciences
Introduction to Sociological Theory
Women, Religion, and Social Change
Status of Women in Africa and Asia
Senior Essay and Research Seminar in Sociology and Anthropology

Last updated: 09/19/2005