Michael J. Miller, Ph.D., is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University. His teaching and scholarship draw from psychology, communication science, nonverbal behavior, emotion research, and emerging work on human–AI collaboration. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in Communication Processes and Marketing Communication and his master’s degree in psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point.
At Clark, Dr. Miller teaches courses across the psychology curriculum, including Introductory Psychology, Experimental Research Methods, Graduate Statistics, and Biological Bases of Behavior. He has also contributed to the development of graduate-level coursework aligned with clinical training needs. His teaching emphasizes conceptual clarity, methodological reasoning, student-centered learning, and the application of psychological science to real-world questions. He is especially interested in helping students develop confidence with research design, statistics, scientific writing, and the interpretation of complex human behavior.
Dr. Miller’s research examines how people communicate emotion across interpersonal, cultural, embodied, and technological contexts. His earlier work focused on nonverbal communication, touch, attachment, jealousy, and social interaction, with publications in outlets including Personal Relationships, the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, the APA Handbook of Nonverbal Communication, and Cambridge University Press’s Social Signal Processing. His current research includes a collaborative project on touch hunger and emotional well-being, as well as theoretical and methodological work on the geometry of emotional expression, resonance, and human–AI communication.
More recently, Dr. Miller has developed a research and publication program exploring artificial intelligence as a collaborator in teaching, writing, scientific inquiry, and theory development. He is the founding editor and publisher of Una Mens: Homo et Machina, an interdisciplinary journal devoted to human–AI scholarship, communication, authorship, and emergent models of collaboration. Through this work, he examines how human and machine systems can participate in shared meaning-making while preserving scholarly responsibility, transparency, and ethical care.
Dr. Miller’s areas of expertise include nonverbal communication, emotion, interpersonal communication, social psychology, research methods, statistics, touch communication, human–AI collaboration, and the use of AI in teaching and scholarship.