Dorothy C. Miller has joined CWRU as the new-and first-director of the Women's Center, which will initially be housed on the third floor of Thwing Center.

Dorothy Miller

As director of the Women's Center, Miller will build on the efforts of the Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Association, Women's Coalition and many other campus women's organizations to develop a cohesive program addressing female students, faculty, staff and alumnae.

Prior to joining CWRU in September, Miller spent 13 years, including six as chair, on the faculty of the Center for Women's Studies at Wichita State University. She was formerly an adjunct professor at the School of Social Work at Rutgers University and an assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work and Community Planning.

She has worked for the Child Welfare League of America as the director of the Hecht Institute for State Child Welfare Planning in Washington, D.C., and as a consultant to their foster care division and Child Welfare Services Delivery Project.

Miller, who is also visiting associate professor at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, received her bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania and her master's degree in social work and doctorate of social welfare in social policy from Columbia University.

Her publications include the book, Women and Social Welfare: A Feminist Analysis. Recent works are the article "What is Needed for True Equality: An Overview of Policy Issues for Women;" a book chapter in Building on Women's Strengths: A Social Work Agenda for the 21st Century; a monograph, Family Poverty in Kansas: A Guide to Government Programs and Policies and its companion volume, Understanding Family Poverty in Kansas.