Alice L. Miller

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Dr. Alice Lyman Miller (born Harold Lyman Miller, 1944) is a researcher, writer, and professor known for her analysis of Chinese history, politics, and foreign policy. She completed her gender transition in 2006. [1]

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Career

Born and raised in upstate New York, Miller then attended Princeton University [2] and received a PhD from George Washington University in 1974 with a doctoral dissertation on Qing dynasty politics. She worked as an analyst at Central Intelligence Agency, from 1974 to 1990. From 1980 to 2000, she taught at Johns Hopkins SAIS in Washington, D.C., first as a lecturer and then as associate professor of China studies and director of the China Studies Program. [3] Miller was a professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School from 1999 to 2014. [4] She has been a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a lecturer in East Asian Studies at Stanford University since 1999. [4]

From 2001 to 2018, Miller was also the general editor of China Leadership Monitor, a quarterly journal providing open-source analysis of the internal workings of the Chinese Communist Party. [5]

Personal life

In 2002, she began a series of treatments for gender transition and began using the name Alice Lyman Miller. She said her professional community and family were supportive of her transition. [6] She has made extensive public comments about this transition, including at TEDxStanford in 2015. [7]

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  1. Alice L. Miller
  2. White (2012).
  3. "Naval Postgraduate School - Dr. Alice Lyman Miller". Nps.edu. 2012-05-09. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  4. 1 2 "Alice L. Miller". Hoover Institution. Retrieved 2021-02-17.
  5. Miller, Alice. "Valedictory: Analyzing The Chinese Leadership In An Era Of Sex, Money, And Power". China Leadership Monitor. 57.
  6. Trevenon (2015).
  7. The Importance of Being Alice | Alice Miller | TEDxStanford , retrieved 2021-05-10
  8. Shambaugh, David (2012). Tangled Titans: The United States and China. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 145.
  9. Alice Lyman Miller and Richard Wich. "Becoming Asia: Change and Continuity in Asian International Relations Since World War II - Alice Lyman Miller and Richard Wich". Sup.org. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-10.

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