Camden Miller is a professor in Urban and Regional Planning with a focus on housing, community development, and neighborhood planning.  She is working on projects involving the investigation of housing market dynamics (its limitations and exclusion of under-represented groups including people of color and low-income) and how we can work towards providing high-quality affordable housing for everyone within the housing market.  Her dissertation research focused on understanding informal rental arrangements and the impacts of housing law on people engaging in these types of arrangements.

Dr. Miller is also the Director of Operations and Project Management for the Rudy Bruner Center for Urban Excellence (RBC). The RBC is focused on innovative thinking and conversation about the role of design in the complex process of city making. She also works with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) and a historic preservation firm.

She has received a number of awards including the New York State Association for Affordable Housing (NYSAFAH) Fellowship, a WNY APA Best Practice Award, an Upstate APA Best Practice Award, the University at Buffalo Doctoral Program Student Excellence Award, the University at Buffalo Best Thesis Award, the University at Buffalo Academic Excellence Award, Dean’s Award, and is a member of the Tau Sigma Delta National Honor Society. Over the past few years, Dr. Miller has published six co-authored articles and two single-authored book reviews in peer-reviewed journals.  She also has recently published a co-authored book chapter, "Commemorating Historically Significant Gay Places."

Previously, she has worked for a number of groups including, but not limited to, the US Department of Energy, the US Army Corps of Engineers, the University of California, Berkeley - College of Environmental Design, and a nanochemistry lab at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Miller received her PhD in Urban Planning from the University at Buffalo in 2022 and her Master of Urban Planning degree with a specialization in Community Development and Neighborhood Planning and an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Historic Preservation from the University at Buffalo in 2016.  Prior to coming to UB, she received her Bachelor of Science in Conservation Resource Studies from the University of California, Berkeley with a minor in Urban Design and a minor in Music.