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Principal Investigator
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Sociology
 Primary Research Areas
Athletic participation and adolescent substance use;
sports-related adolescent health risk; sports and gender. Current Projects
College Sports, Gender, and Substance Use (funded by NIDA).
Examining longitudinal relationships between high school sports participation and substance use as well as developing comprehensive measures of athletic involvement, gender and substance use in college students (in collaboration with RIA’s Grace M. Barnes, Ph.D., Michael Farrell, Ph.D. of UB’s Department of Sociology; Donald Sabo, Ph.D. of D’Youville College; and Merrill Melnick, Ph.D., of SUNY College at Brockport).
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Representative and Recent Publications
Miller, K. E. (2008). Energy drinks, race, and problem behaviors among college students. Journal of Adolescent Health. [Epub ahead of print] 2008 June 16.
Miller, K. E. (2008). Wired: Energy drinks, jock identity, masculine norms, and risk taking. Journal of American College Health, 56, 481-490.
Miller, K. E., Melnick, M. J., Barnes, G. M., Sabo, D. F., & Farrell, M. P. (2007). Athletic involvement and adolescent delinquency. Journal of Youth & Adolescence 36, 711-723.
Miller, K. E., Melnick, M. J., Farrell, M. P., Sabo, D. F., & Barnes, G. M. (2006). Jocks, gender, binge drinking, and adolescent violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 21, 105-120.
Miller, K. E., Farrell, M. P., Barnes, G. M., Melnick, M. J., & Sabo, D. F. (2005). Gender/racial differences in jock identity, dating, and adolescent sexual risk. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 34, 123-136.
Miller, K. E., Melnick, M. J., Barnes, G. M., Farrell, M. P., & Sabo, D. F. (2005). Untangling the links among athletic involvement, gender, race, and adolescent academic outcomes. Sociology of Sport Journal, 22, 178-193.
Miller, K. E., Hoffman, J. H., Barnes, G. M., Farrell, M. P., Sabo, D. F., & Melnick, M. J. (2003). Jocks, gender, race, and adolescent problem drinking. Journal of Drug Education, 33, 445-462.
Miller, K. E., Barnes, G. M., Melnick, M. J., Sabo, D. F., & Farrell, M. P. (2002). Gender and racial/ethnic differences in predicting adolescent sexual risk: Athletic participation vs. exercise. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 43, 436-450.
Miller, K. E., Barnes, G. M., Sabo, D. F., Melnick, M. J., & Farrell, M. P. (2002). Anabolic-androgenic steroid use and other adolescent problem behaviors: Rethinking the male athlete assumption. Sociological Perspectives, 45 ,467-489.
Miller, K. E., Sabo, D. F., Farrell, M. P., Barnes, G. M., & Melnick, M. J. (1999). Sports, sexual activity, contraceptive use, and pregnancy among female and male high school students: Testing cultural resource theory. Sociology of Sport Journal, 16, 366-387.
Sabo, D. F., Miller, K. E., Farrell, M. P., Melnick, M. J., & Barnes, G. M. (1999). High school athletic participation, sexual behavior and adolescent pregnancy: a regional study. Journal of Adolescent Health, 25, 207-216.
Miller, K. E., Sabo, D. F., Farrell, M. P., Barnes, G. M., & Melnick, M. J. (1998). Athletic participation and sexual behavior in adolescents: The different worlds of boys and girls. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 39, 108-123.
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