Don Miller Bio
Donald E. Miller is executive director of the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, which he co-founded in 1996. He is Firestone Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California and director of the School of Religion. He received the Ph.D. degree in Religion (Social Ethics) from USC in 1975. He is the author, co-author or editor of nine books, including, Finding Faith: The Spiritual Quest of the Post-Boomer Generation (Rutgers University Press, 2008), Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement (University of California Press, 2007), Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope (University of California Press, 2003), GenX Religion (Routledge, 2000), Reinventing American Protestantism (University of California Press, 1997), Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide (University of California Press, 1993), Homeless Families: The Struggle for Dignity (University of Illinois Press, 1993), Writing and Research in Religious Studies (Prentice Hall, 1992), and The Case for Liberal Christianity (Harper & Row, 1981). He is completing a co-authored book on immigrant religion in Southern California. The emerging focus of his research is on international faith-based NGOs, and involves work in Rwanda, Tanzania, and Armenia. He has had major grants from the John Templeton Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, Ford Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, The James Irvine Foundation, The John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation, California Council for the Humanities, and Fieldstead & Company.