Miller holds a BA in sculpture (with honors) from Bard College and a graduate certificate in the principles of conservation science from the Centre for the Study of the Conservation and Preservation of Cultural Property, Rome, Italy. He has worked in six distinguished museums in the northeastern Unites States. His five previous books cover museum operational subjects in depth. He has taught graduate museum studies in several colleges and universities. Notably for sixteen years as an adjunct professor with the MA Program in Museum Professions at Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ.