Montana Miller, PhD

Research Compliance Officer
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green State University

Montana Miller is Bowling Green State University’s Research Compliance Officer, with 15 years of IRB experience including serving as PRIM&R faculty teaching sessions on Internet research ethics and ethnography. As Associate Professor in BGSU’s Department of Popular Culture, Montana specializes in ethnographic research methods and ethics, with a particular interest in perceptions of risk; she teaches courses in youth culture, Internet culture, medical anthropology (health, illness, and addiction in culture), occupational folklore, and material culture. She is the author of “Face to Face with the Digital Folk: The Ethics of Fieldwork on Facebook,” the concluding chapter of Trevor Blank’s 2012 volume Folk Culture in the Digital Age: The Emergent Dynamics of Human Interaction. A former professional circus aerialist, Montana is also an elite competitive skydiver and her current research explores beliefs and attitudes surrounding death in that community. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a Masters and PhD from UCLA, all in Folklore and Mythology.

Presentation(s):

• C08 - Conflicted Cultures of Compliance—How the Revised Federal Regulations Change Conversations Between Ethnographers and IRBs

  Sunday, November 17
  3:15 PM – 4:30 PM

• D19 - IRBs and Ethnographers—Unpacking the Dimensions of a Challenging Relationship to Increase Mutual Understanding

  Tuesday, November 19
  3:45 PM – 5:00 PM