Rate My Professor Amanda Miller

Miller has garnered recognition through awards including the Faculty Community Engagement Scholarship Award and Faculty Research Innovation Award from Wayne State University's College of Education in 2023, along with nominations for the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program, TASH Early Career Researchers Award, Wayne State University Academy of Scholars’ Junior Faculty Award, and others. She leads major funded projects, such as a $3.75 million U.S. Department of Education grant in 2025 for collaborative special education leadership preparation with the University of Kansas and University of Arizona, and a $50,000 grant in 2023 to train educators in disability-centered culturally sustaining teaching practices. Her publications include 'Rightful presence? Teacher candidates navigating inclusive education for youth with complex support needs' (Exceptional Children, 2025), 'Teachers’ insights on cultivating inclusive education for students with complex support needs' (Teachers College Record, 2024), 'Toward disability-centered, culturally sustaining pedagogies in teacher education' (Critical Studies in Education, 2023), 'Disabled girls of color excavate exclusionary literacy practices and generate promising sociospatial-textual solutions' (International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 2023), and book chapters such as 'Contemporary complexities of inclusive education in the United States' (Routledge, 2025) and 'Photovoice and cartography as activist tools' (Berghahn Books, 2025). Miller employs methods like photovoice and cartography to amplify disabled girls of color's voices in reimagining schooling.