Dr. Alice Lyman Miller (born Harold Lyman Miller, 1944) is a researcher, writer, and professor known for her analysis of Chinese history, politics, and foreign policy. She completed her

gender transition Gender transition is the process of changing one's gender presentation or sex characteristics to accord with one's internal sense of gender identity – the idea of what it means to be a man or a woman,Brown, M. L. & Rounsley, C. A. (1996) ''True ...

in 2006.

Career

Born and raised in upstate New York, Miller then attended

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and received a PhD from

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in 1974 with a doctoral dissertation on

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politics. She worked as an analyst at

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, from 1974 to 1990. From 1980 to 2000, she taught at

Johns Hopkins SAIS The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., United States, with campuses in Bologna, Italy, and Nanjing, China. It is consistently ranked one of the ...

in Washington, D.C., first as a lecturer and then as associate professor of China studies and director of the China Studies Program. Miller was a professor of National Security Affairs at the

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from 1999 to 2014. She has been a research fellow at the

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and a lecturer in East Asian Studies at

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since 1999. From 2001 to 2018, Miller was also the general editor of ''China Leadership Monitor'', a quarterly journal providing open-source analysis of the internal workings of the

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Personal life

In 2002, she began a series of treatments for gender transition and began using the name Alice Lyman Miller. She said her professional community and family were supportive of her transition. She has made extensive public comments about this transition, including at TEDxStanford in 2015.

Works

* Harold Lyman Miller. ''Factional Conflict and the Integration of Ch'ing Politics, 1661-1690''. Phd thesis, George Washington University,1974. * H. Lyman Miller. ''Science and Dissent in Post-Mao China: The Politics of Knowledge''. University of Washington Press, 1996. * *''The

CCP Central Committee The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, officially the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, is a political body that comprises the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It is currently composed of 205 fu ...

's Leading Small Groups'' (2008) *''The Central Departments under Hu Jintao'' (2009) * *''Becoming Asia: Change and Continuity in Asian International Relations Since World War II'' with Richard Wich (2011)

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