He holds a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park and a master’s degree in education from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where he also earned a B.A. in psychology. Joe is an expert on intergroup relations and group therapy, and publishes research in leading journals of group dynamics and intergroup relations. He is developing an intergroup dialogue program at UTK, where he teaches courses on multicultural psychology and group therapy. Joe is PI, with SART Director Dr. Patrick Grzanka, on an NSF grant-funded project to study the production of sexual orientation as a mental health construct in psychotherapy. Joe is also working with SART on the development and further validation of Dr. Julie Arseneau’s Sexual Orientation Beliefs Scale (SOBS). Visit Dr. Miles’s professional web site.