University of Calgary
Leslie Miller
- Associate Professor Emerita of Sociology
Research Interests
Currently Teaching
Not currently teaching any courses.
Current Research Interests
- Study of conflict and everyday morality in family businesses
- Foucault’s “care of the self” and postmodern body projects
- Sociology of the family and gender relations
Graduate Courses Taught
- Issues in the theory and history of the family
- Classical sociological theory
- Discourse Analysis
- Contemporary sociological theory
- Seminar in professional socialization
Awards
- 2012 Nominee, Graduate Studies Teaching Award
- 1998-1999 Annual Fellow, Calgary Institute for the Humanities
- 1996 Faculty of Social Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award
- 1972-1975 Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship
Theses Supervised
MASTERS
2005 Field, Diane
2002 Cassis, Viola
2000 Grossman, Judith
1999 Kiely, Jerilynn
1997 Smith, Janine
1995 Metcalfe, Jana
DOCTORAL
2009-11 Berenson, Carol A.
2005 Deutschlander, Siegrid
Publications
Book Chapter
- Miller, Leslie. "Foucauldian Constructionism" Handbook of Social Constructionist Research (Eds: J.A. Holstein and J.F. Gubrium) Guilford Press, 2008. 251-273. Print.
- Miller, Leslie. "Claims-Making from the Underside: Marginalization and Social Problems Analysis" Challenges and Choices: Constructionist Perspectives on Social Problems Ed. Holstein, James A. and Miller, Gale Aldine de Gruyter, New York, 2003. 92-119. Print.
Journal Article
- Miller, Leslie and Deutschlander, Siegrid. "A Discursive Analysis of Cultural Resistance: Indigenous constructions of Blackfoot superiority". Tourism, Culture and Communication 5.10 (2004): 59-68. Print.
- Miller, Leslie and Deutschlander, Siegrid. "Politicizing Aboriginal Cultural Tourism: The Discourse of Primitivism in the Tourist Encounter.". Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 40.1 (2003): 27-44. Print.
- Miller, Leslie. "The Poverty of Truth-Seeking: Postmodernism, Discourse Analysis and Critical Feminism". Theory and Psychology 10.3 (2000): 313-352. Print.
- Miller, Leslie and Metcalfe, Jana. "Strategically Speaking: The Problem of Essentializing Terms in Feminist Theory & Feminist Organizational Talk". Human Studies 21. (1998): 235-257. Print.
Curriculum Vitae
Degrees
- PhD - The Alienation of Influence: The Emergence of Liberalism as a Form of Discourse
York University, 1985
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