Dr. Alice Lyman Miller (1944 - ) is a researcher, writer, and professor known for her analysis of Chinese history, politics, and foreign policy. Miller worked as an intelligence analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, taught at Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University and the Naval Postgraduate School, and is researcher and visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Born Harold Lyman Miller, and published under the name H. Lyman Miller, she completed gender transition in 2006.
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Born and raised in upstate New York as Harold Lyman Miller, Miller then attended Princeton University. and received a PhD from George Washington University in 1974 with a doctoral dissertation on Qing dynasty politics. Miller worked as an analyst at Central Intelligence Agency, from 1974 to 1990. From 1990 to 2000, Miller worked as professor of China studies and for most of that period, director of the China Studies Program at the SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C.
Miller is also a professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School.
In 2002, he began a series of treatments for gender transition and began using the name Alice Lyman Miller