She received her PhD in the history of U.S. foreign relations from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A scholar of U.S.-East Asian relations, she is currently finishing a book that examines the impact of American and Japanese understanding of democracy on the development on the U.S.-Japanese relationship between 1945 and 1963. Portions of this project have been published in Diplomatic History and the Journal of Contemporary History. Miller is now starting a second project that examines the economic rise of Northeast Asia between 1970 and 2000 and its impact on American politics, culture, and narratives of political economy.