{"id":2,"date":"2010-02-26T21:40:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2017-09-13T14:04:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T14:04:55","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an undergraduate, I studied sociology and and played on the men&#8217;s basketball team for four years at the University of Notre Dame. I then served as a teacher and basketball coach for four years at high schools in Montgomery, Alabama and South Bend, Indiana. I completed my doctorate and worked in athletics and education at the University of Utah. My first faculty appointment was in the Department of Foundations and Leadership at Duquesne University. I taught undergraduate and graduate level courses at Duquesne and developed a research agenda that was particularly focused on issues of leadership in complex environments.\u00a0 In the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I continue this research while teaching leadership courses and advising students. I also serve as UW&#8217;s faculty athletics representative to the Big Ten Conference and NCAA and I chair the University&#8217;s Athletic Board.<\/p>\n<p>Away from work, I spend most of my time with my wife, Lindsey and our four wonderful children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an undergraduate, I studied sociology and and played on the men&#8217;s basketball team for four years at the University of Notre Dame. I then served as a teacher and basketball coach for four years at high schools in Montgomery, Alabama and South Bend, Indiana. I completed my doctorate and worked in athletics and education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}