Kim Miller

Wheaton College

Kim Miller is Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies and Art History at Wheaton College (in Massachusetts). She is founding coordinator of Wheaton’s Peace and Social Justice Studies Program. Kim is also a research associate at the South African Research Chair in South African Art & Visual Culture, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Kim’s research focuses on the ways in which artists in South Africa use art for the purposes of promoting social justice and the ways in which women use art as a form of activism and empowerment. She is currently writing a book on how memorial practices and commemorative sites are associated with women’s role in political struggle. Kim is co-editor of the book, Bronze Warriors and Plastic Presidents: Public Art in South Africa, 1999 – 2015. Kim has published a number of book chapters and articles in the South African Historical Journal, African Arts, the National Women’s Studies Association Journal

Areas of Expertise

• Cultural studies
• Film and media
• Education

Methodology

• Archival
• Experimental
• Ethnographic
• Focus groups
• Interviews