Robin Lin Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 76928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Lin Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin Lin |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3035-6932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 86 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 416 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 86 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
An Oral History of Thomas A. Schwandt
Navigating an STI diagnosis
Black women face a myriad of challenges that heighten their susceptibility to sexually transmitted infections (STIs), resulting in a disproportionate impact of STIs among this population. Yet, there is a lack of research that explores how women navigate these diagnoses with resilience. Instead, much of the prevention research on Black women's sexual health and wellness reflects a deficit orientation and focuses on risk. In the current study, we a…
On Activism, Knowledge Generation, and Global Movements for Human Rights
In this article, we discuss the cancellation of research and evaluation as one of many attacks on systematically collected evidence. Such attacks have the intended purpose of opening entry points for the flow of disinformation; undermining the ability to make the case for the importance of human rights; and discrediting human rights defenders and the community organizations they lead. We make the case that knowledge generation and movement buildi…
The Oral History of Evaluation
Stuck in Hospital
Introduction: Integrating care so that people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people can receive support at home rather than in institutional assessment and treatment units is a priority in the UK and many other countries. Despite the recognition of its importance, progress on timely and coordinated discharge has been slow. Surprisingly little previous research has engaged directly with people with learning disabilities and/or autistic…
The Oral History of Evaluation
Modeling Temporal Accessibility of an Urban Road Network during an Extreme Pluvial Flood Event
This study presents a model-based framework to assess the time-varying accessibility of a roadway network on a system-wide level during extreme flood events. A regional MIKE 21 hydrodynamic model consisting of 1,912,576 computational points with mesh cell resolutions ranging from 70 to 15 m is utilized to compute regional inundation during an extreme 500-year flood scenario. This approach allows for an explicit accounting of the impact of pluvial…
Agape love is justice”
This study explored how 60 Black clergy came to publicly and theologically support Black gay men. They participated in three 90-minute life history interviews to address the study aims. Open, axial and selective coding were used to understand and order themes within their accounts while addressing specific aims. Life events, purpose-driven theological training and a commitment to justice provide the basis for theological and public support of Bla…
Breaking the binary
Binary gender norms in the U.S. contribute to the systemic marginalization of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals. These norms shape beliefs and assumptions about a TGD young adults; they inform the policies that govern their rights, the settings they occupy, and research conducted about them. Experiences based on binary conceptions of gender may leave TGD young adults feeling disempowered and require they develop resilient strategie…
Transforming the Paradigm for LGBTQ+ Evaluation
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, Two-Spirit, and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ+) individuals encounter numerous obstacles to equity across health and healthcare, education, housing, employment, and other domains. Such barriers are even greater for LGBTQ+ individuals who are also Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), as well as those who are disabled, and those who are working-class, poor, and otherwise eco…
Individual, Relationship, and Family Structure Predictors of African American Noncustodial Father Involvement Satisfaction
Purpose: The current study seeks to investigate the extent to which factors such as income and child support along with relationship factors such as family structure and communication with the custodial mother potentially mitigate overall parent satisfaction for African American noncustodial fathers (NCFs) with multi-partnered fertility (MPF). Methods: 163 noncustodial fathers without and with children other than the custodial parents were select…
Breaking Down Barriers to HIV Care for Gay and Bisexual Men and Transgender Women
Gendered powerlessness in at-risk adolescent and young women
In the United States, youth aged 13–24 comprised approximately 21% of new HIV infections in 2017; 13% of these infections occurred among women, the majority of whom (86%) acquired HIV through heterosexual contact (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2019a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2019a). HIV and youth. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/age/youth/index.html [Google Scholar]. HIV and youth. Retrieved from http…
Improving Timely Linkage to Care among Newly Diagnosed HIV-Infected Youth
If It Weren't for Them, I'd Probably Be Lost
The purpose of this study was to examine one interpersonal relationship-natural mentoring relationships-that may promote healthy development among young Black men who have sex with men (YBMSM), a population at disproportionate risk of multiple psychosocial health issues. We analyzed data from interviews with 168 YBMSM. We used content analysis to identify who participants cited as mentors, their personal characteristics, and the functions they pl…
Spiritual assessment in Social Work and Mental Health Practice
Spiritual assessment in Social Work and Mental Health Practice." Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought, 37(4), pp. 438–439
Structural Effects on HIV Risk Among Youth
Anticipated HIV Stigma and Delays in Regular HIV Testing Behaviors Among Sexually-Active Young Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Women
Youth health outcomes from the Connect-to-Protect coalitions to prevent adolescent HIV infections
We assessed the relationships among HIV-related social and behavioral outcomes resulting from an adolescent-focused HIV structural change initiative in eight urban sites operating Connect to Protect (C2P) coalitions. Over a 4-year period, annual cross-sectional panels of adolescents (N = 2,248) completed an audio-computer-assisted interview, providing data on satisfaction with their communities as adolescent-supportive environments, internalized …
The Oral History of Evaluation
Structural and Community Change Outcomes of the Connect‐to‐Protect Coalitions
Highlights Coalition mobilization can contribute to the creation of AIDS‐competent communities. HIV coalitions benefit from leaders who can confront political opposition to structural changes. Coalitions can contribute to addressing the structural factors that promote HIV‐risk among youth
Building Foundations
On Messes, Systems Thinking, and Evaluation
To help evaluation professionals better understand what an authentic attempt at Developmental Evaluation (DE) ought to look like and when it is appropriate to use, Michael Patton’s provocative essay (this issue) offers evaluators eight sensitizing concepts to call on as guides. Patton states these concepts succinctly define DE and persuasively argues each must be unequivocally evident for an evaluation to earn the DE label. But are these eight co…
The Oral History of Evaluation
Thriving and Adapting
We examined resilience associated with the avoidance of psychosocial health conditions (i.e., syndemics) that increase vulnerability for HIV among young Black gay and bisexual men. We used analytic induction to compare a sample of 23 men who showed no evidence of syndemic conditions to a sample of 23 men who experienced syndemic conditions. The men who avoided syndemics reported supportive relationships with people who helped them to develop a st…
Advancing the Science of Community-Level Interventions
Community interventions are complex social processes that need to move beyond single interventions and outcomes at individual levels of short-term change. A scientific paradigm is emerging that supports collaborative, multilevel, culturally situated community interventions aimed at creating sustainable community-level impact. This paradigm is rooted in a deep history of ecological and collaborative thinking across public health, psychology, anthr…
Learning from Communities
The model of prevention science advocated by the Institute of Medicine (P. J. Mrazek & R. J. Haggerty, 1994) has not lead to widespread adoption of prevention and promotion programs for four reasons. The model of dissemination of programs to communities fails to consider community and organizational capacity to implement programs, ignores the need for congruence in values between programs and host sites, displays a pro-innovation bias that underv…
Taking Stock of Empowerment Evaluation
Empowerment evaluation entered the evaluation lexicon in 1993. Since that time, it has attracted many adherents, as well as vocal detractors. A prominent issue in the debates on empowerment evaluation concerns the extent to which empowerment evaluation can be readily distinguished from other approaches to evaluation that share with it an emphasis on participatory and collaborative processes, capacity development, and evaluation use. A second issu…
Strategies for Managing Heterosexism Used among African American Gay and Bisexual Men
Oppression and oppression management are focal topics of inquiry in research on African Americans' social behaviors. Previous research has failed to investigate the methods that African Americans who are also bisexual and gay use to cope with oppressive experiences associated with their status as sexual minorities. In the current study, the authors use in-depth interviews with gay and bisexual African American men (n = 37) to examine the strategi…
Legacy Denied
This qualitative study explores the religious development and spiritual formation of African American gay men living with AIDS. In response to an in-depth interviewing approach, 10 men described their experiences of church participation. The participants' data reveal their religious initiation and participation as well as their need to extinguish their affiliation with the black church as a result of religiously sanctioned homophobia, heterosexis…
HIV Prevention with Male Prostitutes and Patrons of Hustler Bars
The core objectives of this study were to document the process by which a community‐based organization replicated and adapted an experimentally developed intervention to its own use and to explore the effectiveness of that HIV prevention program for male prostitutes and other patrons in New York City “hustler” bars. The intervention model employed was based on previous research with gay men (Kelly, St. Lawrence, Diaz, et al., 1991; Kelly, St. Law…
Development and validation of adolescent‐perceived microsystem scales
Developed and validated instruments for urban and culturally diverse adolescents to assess their self‐reported transactions with family, peer, school, and neighborhood microsystems for the constructs of social support, daily hassles, and involvement. The sample of 998 youth were from schools in three Eastern cities with high percentages of economically disadvantaged youth. Data were collected before and after the transition to junior high school …
Using system dynamics modeling to understand the impact of social change initiatives
Community psychologists have a long history of interest in understanding social systems and how to bring about enduring positive change in these systems. However, the methods that community psychologists use to anticipate and evaluate the changes that result from system change efforts are less well developed. In the current paper, we introduce readers to system dynamics modeling, an action research approach to studying complex systems and the con…
Hearts and Minds, Water and Fish
Identity and Agency
Young sexual minority women disproportionately experience pregnancy, repeat pregnancy, and become parents, when compared with their heterosexual peers. Black sexual minority women who are socioeconomically disadvantaged are a part of three demographic groups likely to experience adolescent pregnancy. A paucity of research has examined why these young women become pregnant. The authors begin to address this gap by examining the meaning of pregnanc…
Mothering the Biracial Child
No abstract available for this article
Thriving and Adapting
We examined resilience associated with the avoidance of psychosocial health conditions (i.e., syndemics) that increase vulnerability for HIV among young Black gay and bisexual men. We used analytic induction to compare a sample of 23 men who showed no evidence of syndemic conditions to a sample of 23 men who experienced syndemic conditions. The men who avoided syndemics reported supportive relationships with people who helped them to develop a st…
Education and Policy in Northern Ireland
The Silenced Voice
L'A. fait le constat selon lequel la sociologie de la mobilite n'a pris en compte pratiquement aucune dimension feminine. Elle s'est reduite a l'analyse de la mobilite des hommes, minorant ainsi le champ d'etude sociologique de la stratification sociale. L'A. critique cette carence et met en evidence l'importante et unique contribution des femmes dans le processus de mobilite professionnellle intergenerationnelle, au Royaume-Uni en particulier
Developing Standards for Empirical Examinations of Evaluation Theory
Evaluation scholars have long called for research on evaluation (Mark, 2001, 2003; Shadish, Cook, & Leviton, 1991; Smith, 1993; Worthen, 2001) to provide an empirical basis for improving its theory and practice. Although calls to investigate evaluation have struck a chord in some quarters of the evaluation community, with the exception of research in the area of evaluation use, these calls have been infrequently answered. Specific frameworks and …
Innovation in HIV Prevention
A multiple case study design was used to explore the organizational characteristics of community‐based organizations that provide HIV prevention programs and the criteria these organizations employ when judging the merits of externally‐developed HIV prevention programs. In‐depth interviews were conducted with organizational representatives of 38 randomly‐selected HIV prevention providers throughout Illinois. Results indicated that there were thre…
Protecting Sexual Minority Youth from Research Risks
We describe the dilemmas we encountered in the informed consent process for an HIV prevention project targeting Black gay, bisexual, and non‐gay identified young men. We highlight the complexities of applying informed parental consent procedures to sexual minority youth and identify some of the challenges that researchers who work with sexual minority youth face when they must balance the needs and rights of this population against the needs and …
The Benefits of Youth Engagement in HIV-Preventive Structural Change Interventions
Youth are infrequently included in planning the health promotion projects designed to benefit them as many of the factors infringing upon youth's health and well-being also limit their engagement in community-based public health promotion projects. This article explores youth engagement in 13 coalitions implementing structural changes meant to reduce HIV transmission among adolescents. There was wide variation of youth membership and involvement …
Conflict Transformation, Stigma, and HIV‐Preventive Structural Change
Over the prior decade, structural change efforts have become an important component of community‐based HIV prevention initiatives. However, these efforts may not succeed when structural change initiatives encounter political resistance or invoke conflicting values, which may be likely when changes are intended to benefit a stigmatized population. The current study sought to examine the impact of target population stigma on the ability of 13 commu…
An appointment with god
This article describes how an African American gay man living with AIDS used his spiritual, religious, and cultural strengths to resist internalized dislocation because of heterosexism and homophobia. He was able to experience a relocation of God from places that rejected him to places that were conducive to his healing. By using these strengths, he was able to reject his physician's prediction of death and to call on God in response to an end-st…
Erecting closets and outing ourselves
Feminist scholars and community psychologists have argued that reflexivity is a necessary component to conducting socially conscious research. Reflexivity, however, is rarely evident in community psychology. In this article, we share the uncomfortable realities that surfaced during a community‐based research project in which we adapted and implemented an HIV prevention intervention for young Black sexual minority women. We each describe how aspec…
The Limited Concerns of Social Mobility Research
An anomaly exists between the high level of development and achievement of research into social mobility and its limited impact upon social stratification theory. Possibilities for increasing the substantive relevance of mobility research through the broadening of its conceptualization are discussed. The restrictions of most analyses to a limited set of data collection points - parents' occupation, first job and present occupation - limits the po…
Unemployment as a Mobility Status
Studies of social mobility, in common with sociology in general, should reflect the parameters and concerns of the societies in which they are based. Hence, issues such as the ‘equality of opportunity’ debate, the role played by fundamental changes in political regimes at the end of the Second World War and at the demise of the socialist regimes in eastern Europe, and the effects of high rates of immigration have been built into the basic designs…
Intergenerational occupational mobility within the Republic of Ireland
Creating Youth-Supportive Communities
The Word and Its Meaning
The Linguistic Relativity Principle and Humboldtian Ethnolinguistics
The Linguistic Relativity Principle and Humboldtian Ethnolinguistics, a History and Appraisal
Education and Policy in Northern Ireland
Intergenerational occupational mobility within the Republic of Ireland
Legislating For Fair Employment
Two decades ago allegations of religious discrimination and the onset of 'the troubles' led the British Government to institute a programme of administrative and legislative reform in the province. These reforms culminated in the Fair Employment Act (1976). More recently, the Government began a review of the efficacy of the existing legislation and this has now resulted in a new Fair Employment Bill for Northern Ireland. The new Bill should be se…
Hogs and Hygiene
Hogs and Hygiene
Physiological and ecological aspects of pig raising can shed light on the value of pigs in the subsistence economy of the workmen's villages at Deir el-Medina and Amarna. Recycling waste to feed pigs meant that a more efficient use could be made of available food sources, including scraps which would not sustain a larger human, with the option of butchering the animal to recoup the energy resources invested in it
Mothering the Biracial Child
No abstract available for this article
Books
Philip E. Ogden and Paul E. White (eds), Migrants in Modern France: Population Mobility in the Later 19th and 20th Centuries London: Unwin Hyman, 1989, 320 pp., £45.00 h.b. Hastings Donnan, Marriage among Muslims: Preference and Choice in Northern Pakistan Delhi: Hindustan Publishing Corporation, 1988, 231 pp, $38.25 p.b. Malcolm Cross and Gad Heuman (eds), Labour in the Caribbean: from Emancipation To Independence Basingstoke: Macmillan Caribbea…
Female Marital Mobility within Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
A series of log-linear models predicting the exchange marital experiences of Irish wives are prevented for the Irish Republic. The best explanatory model is one in which the relationship between a husband's occupational status and that of his father-in-law remains homogeneous across age levels, Women show a marked propensity to marry husbands at a similar occupational status as that of their fathers and long-range upward or downward mobility acro…
Economic Change and Mobility in the Two Parts of Ireland
Hearts and Minds, Water and Fish
Intergenerational Mobility in the Republic of Ireland
This article compares in regression models the effects of occupational status of both fathers and mothers simultaneously upon the attainment of men and women in the Irish Republic. The sample matches male respondents from the 1973/1974 Irish Mobility Study with the labour active female sibling next closest in age. Since the analysis compares working siblings and each ‘matched pair’ shares the same family origin characteristics, the problems atten…
The Silenced Voice
L'A. fait le constat selon lequel la sociologie de la mobilite n'a pris en compte pratiquement aucune dimension feminine. Elle s'est reduite a l'analyse de la mobilite des hommes, minorant ainsi le champ d'etude sociologique de la stratification sociale. L'A. critique cette carence et met en evidence l'importante et unique contribution des femmes dans le processus de mobilite professionnellle intergenerationnelle, au Royaume-Uni en particulier
The Development of Industrial Society in Ireland
Development and validation of adolescent‐perceived microsystem scales
Developed and validated instruments for urban and culturally diverse adolescents to assess their self‐reported transactions with family, peer, school, and neighborhood microsystems for the constructs of social support, daily hassles, and involvement. The sample of 998 youth were from schools in three Eastern cities with high percentages of economically disadvantaged youth. Data were collected before and after the transition to junior high school …
Educational Cohort Generations in Northern Ireland 1922–1972, with Particular Reference to Males
Although the educational system in Northern Ireland has been subjected to extensive sociological research since the 1970s with extensive debate over the use of the educational system to secure equality of opportunity, a single reference summarizing the history of the Northern Irish educational system with direct reference to social stratification issues does not exist. This article has three main goals. First, conceptual differences between four …
HIV Prevention with Male Prostitutes and Patrons of Hustler Bars
The core objectives of this study were to document the process by which a community‐based organization replicated and adapted an experimentally developed intervention to its own use and to explore the effectiveness of that HIV prevention program for male prostitutes and other patrons in New York City “hustler” bars. The intervention model employed was based on previous research with gay men (Kelly, St. Lawrence, Diaz, et al., 1991; Kelly, St. Law…
The Limited Concerns of Social Mobility Research
An anomaly exists between the high level of development and achievement of research into social mobility and its limited impact upon social stratification theory. Possibilities for increasing the substantive relevance of mobility research through the broadening of its conceptualization are discussed. The restrictions of most analyses to a limited set of data collection points - parents' occupation, first job and present occupation - limits the po…
Unemployment as a Mobility Status
Studies of social mobility, in common with sociology in general, should reflect the parameters and concerns of the societies in which they are based. Hence, issues such as the ‘equality of opportunity’ debate, the role played by fundamental changes in political regimes at the end of the Second World War and at the demise of the socialist regimes in eastern Europe, and the effects of high rates of immigration have been built into the basic designs…
The Rise and Fall of Languages . R. M. W. Dixon
Researching Life Stories and Family Histories
Introduction The Historical Context Collecting and Organizing Family Histories Collecting Life Histories Analyzing Life Histories The Biographical Perspective
A Venue-Based Method for Sampling Hard-to-Reach Populations
Constructing scientifically sound samples of hard-to-reach populations, also known as hidden populations, is a challenge for many research projects. Traditional sample survey methods, such as random sampling from telephone or mailing lists, can yield low numbers of eligible respondents while non-probability sampling introduces unknown biases. The authors describe a venue-based application of time-space sampling (TSS) that addresses the challenges…
Mental Adjustment to the Post-Communist System in Poland, Kazimierz M. Slomczynski with Krystyna Janicka, Bogdan W. Mach and Wojciech Zaborowski, Warsaw
Psychology (58 works) · Sociology (46 works) · Political science (40 works) · Medicine (35 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Evaluation and Performance Assessment (20 works) · Public health (20 works) · Computer Science (19 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Health psychology (16 works)