CURRICULUM VITAE
DARREL L. MILLER
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008-
Dean of Wayland H. Cato, Jr. School of Education, Queens University
1995-2008
Dean of Hayworth College (Graduate and Adult Programs), Queens University
1990-
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Queens University
1989-90
Visiting Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of South Florida
1987-89
Associate Research Scientist-Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Florida,
Marketing Department and Center for Gerontological Studies
1983-84
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, SUNY-Brockport
1980-83
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, College of William and Mary
1979-80
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Centenary College (NJ)
EDUCATION
1985-87
Postdoctoral Work in Marketing, University of Florida
1979
Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Florida
1975
M.A. in Latin American Studies, University of Florida
1969
B.A. in Political Science, Eckerd College (St. Petersburg, FL)
RESEARCH
Publications
1993
Community Based Marketing Potentials for Marketing Non-Timber Forest Products.
Washington: The Futures Group. (co-authored with K. Lee Ehrhardt-Martinez and
Judith Lisansky and translated into Portuguese as Diertrizes para a Comercializacao de
Produtos Nao-Madeiras)
1990
“Organizational Buying Behavior,” in William Wilkie, Consumer Behavior, 2nd Edition.
New York: John Wiley
1988
“The Older Consumer: Implications for Retailing,” in The Proceedings of the Academy of
Marketing Sciences/American Collegiate Retailing Association National Retailing
Conference.
1986
“Highways and Gold: Change in a Caboclo Community,” in E.P. Parker, ed. The Amazon
Caboclo: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Williamsburg: Studies in Third
World Societies Series, Vol. 32.
1985
“Replacement of Traditional Elites: An Amazon Case Study,” in John Hemming, ed. The
Frontier After a Decade Colonisation. Manchester: University of Manchester Press.
1983
“Commentary: Community Change in South Asia,” South Asian Anthropologist
4(2):123-25.
1983
“Entrepreneurs and Bureaucrats: The Rise of a New Middle Class, in Emilio Moran, ed.
The Dilemma of Amazon Development. Boulder: Westview Press.
1977
“Establishing Social Order in a Frontier Immigrant Community,” Latinamericanist 13:4-5.
1977
“Ita em 1974: um epilogo,” in Charles Wagley. Uma Comunidade Amazonica. Sao
Paulo: Editora Nacional. (Translation of below)
1974
“Ita in 1974,” in Charles Wagley. Amazon Town: A Study of Man in the Tropics. New
York: Oxford.
Book Reviews
1985
of Elizabeth Rowe. The City in Brazilian Literature. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickenson
University Press, 1982, in Latin American Literary Review.
1982
of Emilio Moran. Developing the Amazon. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1981, in American Anthropologist.
Papers Presented at Conferences
1994
April 6-10. “Marketing Tropical Forest Products: Saving the Amazon Rainforest” at the
Business Association of Latin American Studies annual meetings, Miami, Florida.
1988
November 18-22. “Marketing, Public Policy, and the Older Consumer: A Life Course
Perspective” at the annual meetings of the Gerontological Society of America, San
Francisco, California.
1988
October 6-9. “The Older Consumer: Implications for Retailing” at the National Retailing
Conference sponsored by the Academy of Marketing Science and the American
Collegiate Retailing Association, Charleston, South Carolina.
1983
November 16-20. Chair and co-organizer of symposium on The Military and the
Community at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association,
Chicago, Illinois.
1983
November 16-20. “Gold Mining in the Brazilian Amazon: Economic and Social Effects”
at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois,
1983
April 8-9. Chair and organizer of symposium on Urbanization and Urbanism in Latin
America at the annual meetings of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American
Studies, Williamsburg, Virginia.
1982
December 3-7. “Urbanization and Social Change in the Brazilian Amazon” at the annual
meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
1982
September 5-10. “Replacement of Traditional Elites Along Brazil’s Transamazon
Highway” at the 44th International Congress of Americanists, Manchester, England.
1982
April 14-17. “The Role of the Entrepreneur in a Rural Development Project” at the
annual meetings of the Southern Anthropological Society, Boone, North Carolina.
1981
March 17-18. Quantification: A New Panacea for Anthropology?” at the annual
meetings of the Virginia Social Studies Association, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
1980
December 3-7. Chair of symposium on Household Cycles and Domestic Politics at the
annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
1980
October 17-19. “The Transamazon Highway: A New Econiche for the Middle Class” at
the 9th annual meetings of the Latin American Studies Association, Bloomington,
Indiana.
1977
November 2-5. “Establishing Social Order in a Frontier Migrant Community” at the joint
meetings of the Latin American and African Studies Associations, Houston, Texas.
1975
April 6-8. “350 Years of Slash-and-Burn Horticulture: An Amazon Case Study” at the
annual meetings of the Southern Anthropological Society, Clearwater, Florida.
FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH
2002
Participant, Program for Change Leadership, Harvard Business School.
1996
Participant, Aslanian Group, Adult Students: Options for Enrollment Growth, New York.
1988
Nominated for Fulbright-Hayes Lecturing and Research Grant in marketing for Brazil,
Summer, 1989 (declined).
1988
Travel Grant, Division of Sponsored Research, University of Florida (Brazil)
1981
Postdoctoral Research Grant, Tropical South America Program, University of Florida
(Brazil)
1977
Organization of American States Research Grant (Brazil)
1974-76
NDEA Title VI Fellowship, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida
1974
Summer Research Grant, Tropical South America Program, University of Florida (Brazil)
FIELD RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2008
Low-SES Charter Schools, Newark and New York City.
1992-93
Marketing Tropical Forest Products in Brazil. Fourteen month project to study
marketing systems in the Brazilian Amazon. The goal was to help small producers to
better capture value-added profits for themselves. Funded by USAID Glocal Climate
Change Project and supervised by the Futures Group, Washington, D.C.
1988
Marketing in Brazil. Six weeks of travel and fieldwork to academic institutions and
businesses throughout the country.
1987
Long-Term Trusting Relationships in the Channel of Distribution. A project funded by
the Center for Retailing at the University of Florida involving on site interviews with
buyers at nine major department store chains.
1978
Status and Role in a Women’s Clinic, Gainesville, Florida. Three months of fieldwork on
male and female roles in the delivery of women’s perinatal health care.
1976-77
Urbanization and Economic Development in Itaituba, a city along the Transamazon
Highway.
1974
A Restudy of Charles Wagley’s Amazon Town. Three months of fieldwork focusing on
socio-economic change.
CONSULTING
1986-90
Various national retailing firms
1992-
Charlotte area not-for-profits including the Chamber of Commerce, The American Red
Cross, Arthritis Patient Services, and the YWCA
HONORS
Phi Beta Kappa
LANGUAGES
Portuguese
Almost fluent
Spanish and French
Reading and speaking knowledge
German
Speaking knowledge