Andrew Cesare Miller (also published as Andrew C. Miller) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the United States Naval Academy. His research explores the intersection of politics, policing, and organized crime. His book, Silencing Citizens: How Criminal Groups Create Vacuums of Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2024), received the 2025 Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division of International Criminology. In 2024 he was named Political Science Teacher of the Year at the Naval Academy.
Previously, he was an assistant director and research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, and he served on USAID reform programs in Baghdad and Kabul. He has field experience in Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, among other places. His work has been funded by the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice, Notre Dame’s Global Religion Research Initiative, the Templeton Foundation, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and other sources. From 2022 to 2024 he served as the inaugural chair of the Anne Arundel County Administrative Charging Committee, which reviews investigations of police misconduct.
Andrew holds a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a member of the Security Studies Program; an MS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University; and a BA from the George Washington University. He is also pursuing a JD in the evening program at Georgetown University Law Center.