Mark J. Miller graduated from the University of Wisconsin where he was Phi Beta Kappa and wrote a senior honors thesis on the politics of Palestinian resistance. He spent his junior year at Aix-en-Provence and later received a French government scholarship for dissertation research on immigrant political participation in Western Europe at L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Since 1978, he has taught at the University of Delaware where he is a professor of comparative politics. He is the author or co-author of five books, the most recent being the revised and expanded second edition of The Age of Migration published in 1998. Miller has authored or co-authored over one hundred articles, book chapters, monographs and reviews, including several in French and German. He has also translated a number of articles from French to English.

Miller joined editorial board of the International Migration Review in 1982. He became the IMR's assistant editor in 1984 and managing editor in 1998.

From 1983 to 1989, Miller served as the U.S. correspondent to SOPEMI, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's group of migration experts. He drafted the annual OECD report on international migration, the SOPEMI report, from 1984 to 1986. Miller has also served as an consultant to the U.S. Departments of State, Labor and Justice as well as to the ILO, the U.N. and several foundations. He was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Future of Migration conference held in Paris in 1986. More recently, he attended the 4th World Congress on Migration sponsored by the Vatican in 1998.

Since 1981, Miller has testified on developments in Europe migration policies for Congress and several U.S. commissions. He wrote two commissioned monographs for the Commission on Immigration Reform. He is currently working on book manuscripts concerning West European efforts to curb illegal migration, the influx of immigrants to the Georgetown, DE area and the migration, terrorism and security nexus. Miller is married and has two sons. He lives in New Castle, DE.