Reuben Jonathan Miller is a Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Sociology and a Research Professor (on leave) at the American Bar Foundation. Before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago's Crown Family School and in the Department of Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity. 

Miller's research, which focuses on race, punishment, and social welfare policy, is published in journals across the social sciences. In 2021, Miller published his first sole authored book Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration to critical acclaim. Halfway Home won a number of awards, including the Herbert Jacob Book Prize from the Law and Society Association, the Michael J. Hindelang Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology, and two PROSE Awards from the Association of American Publisher’s, including the award for Excellence in Social Science. It was also a finalist for an LA Times Book Prize and the Pen America John Kenneth Galbraith Award for nonfiction. In 2022, Miller was selected as a MacArthur Fellow, the so called “genius grant”, with the prize committee noting that "Miller is modeling a way to write about his subjects that refuses to reduce them to their hardships, and he is illuminating how the American carceral system reshapes individuals' lives and relationships long after their time has been served.” Later that year, he was named among the Root 100, Root Magazine's list of the nation's most influential African Americans. Miller is currently conducting a transnational study of black emancipation in port cities along the transatlantic slave trade route and a study of violence and our responses to it. That work culminates in the publication of Another World by Bloomsbury in 2028.