She specializes in early Christianity with an emphasis on politics and gender in the ancient world. Dr. Miller’s recent work includes a paper entitled, “Women’s Speech and Ancient Political Discourse in the Acts of Paul and Thecla,” which she presented to Xavier’s Masters program in February 2015 and a related version at the national Society of Biblical Literature meeting in San Diego in November 2014. She also collaborated with Dr. Art Dewey on an article on Pauline literature and Disability for the forthcoming volume, Disability and the Bible: A Commentary (Baylor University Press). This past spring, Dr. Miller published Corinthian Democracy: Democratic Discourse in 1 Corinthians (Pickwick Publications), hailed as a “groundbreaking work” and available here