Seymour M. Miller

Seymour Michael "Mike" Miller was an economic-political sociologist, activist, and emeritus professor of sociology at Boston University. Biography Miller's parents immigrated separately as teenagers from Tagancha and Stepanitz, two shtetls in the Ukraine. Miller grew up poor in Philadelphia and New York with prolonged periods of homelessness. A graduate of Brooklyn College, Princeton University and Columbia University, Miller taught for many years at Boston University in its Sociology Department, where he also chaired the department. Miller has also held distinguished research and teaching positions at numerous other universities, including Brooklyn College (1961–63), Syracuse University (1961–65), Boston College, New York University, the London School of Economics, Cornell University, and Harvard University.