Peter V. Miller (PhD Michigan) is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. Dr. Miller teaches and conducts research on public opinion and research methods, focusing on issues of validity in social science approaches to media research, including public opinion polls and audience measurements, and on the role of survey research in public policy. He is editor of the scholarly journal, Public Opinion Quarterly. Selected publications: "Is `Up' Right? The National Household Study on Drug Abuse," Public Opinion Quarterly (61, 1997); "They Said It Couldn't Be Done: The National Health and Social Life Survey," Public Opinion Quarterly 59, 1995); "Two Forms of Reality in Audience Measurement," in Ettema, J. and C. Whitney, eds., Audiencemaking (Sage, 1993); "The Industry of Public Opinion," in Glasser, T. and Salmon, C., Public Opinion and the Communication of Consent (Guilford, 1992); with R. Groves, "Matching Survey Responses to Official Records," Public Opinion Quarterly (49, 1985).