Linda G. Mills is Professor of Social Work, Public Policy, and Law. She also serves as Executive Director of NYU’s Center on Violence and Recovery. In addition, she is NYU’s Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduates in the Global Network University, and Associate Vice Chancellor for Admissions and Financial Support for NYU Abu Dhabi.

As Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduates in the Global Network University, Professor Mills is responsible for: (1) undergraduate academic planning and the overall undergraduate experience; and (2) faculty and student academic programming beyond the classroom.  Topics in her "University Life" portfolio include health and mental health policy and programming, and residential education.

In her books, Violent Partners: A Breakthrough Plan for Ending the Cycle of Abuse (Basic Books, 2008) and Insult to Injury: Rethinking Our Response to Intimate Abuse (Princeton University, 2003), Mills challenges current paradigms of domestic abuse and develops a new theory and practice based on empirical research, for rethinking how we respond to violence in intimate relationships. 

Mills has recently completed a National Science Foundation (NSF) study in Nogales, AZ that compares a batterer’s treatment program to a restorative justice approach to recovery called Circles of Peace.  Mills has just received another NSF grant to study this and other alternative treatment models in Salt Lake City, Utah.

A select list of Mills's publications include: “Circulos de Paz and the Promise of Peace: Restorative Justice Meets Intimate Violence,” (with Mary Helen Maley and Yael Shy) published in NYU Review of Law and Social Change in 2009; "Shame and intimate abuse: The critical missing link between cause and cure," published in Children and Youth Services Review in 2008; "The justice of recovery: How the state can heal the violence of crime," published in Hastings Law Journal in 2006; "Fighting for child custody when domestic violence is at issue: A survey of state laws and a call for more research," (with Amy Levin) published in Social Work in 2003; "The law of white spaces: Race, culture, and legal education," (with Peter Goodrich) published in Journal of Legal Education in 2001; and "Killing Her Softly: Intimate Abuse and the Violence of State Intervention," published in Harvard Law Review in 1999. 

Mills recently directed and produced a documentary called Auf Wiedersehen: ‘Til We Meet Again, a film that explores the intergenerational transmission of trauma from the Holocaust to 9-11.  The film was an official selection at the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, and the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival.  In Los Angeles, the film took an Audience Award, Runner Up for Best Documentary and was an Opening Night Selection and Best Political Film, Honorable Mention, in Philadelphia. The film will show in Minneapolis in April at the Jewish Film Festival.  Auf Wiedersehen, Til We Meet Again was recently selected by the Austrian Ministry of Education, Arts, and Culture as a Holocaust Remembrance tool for high school students. 

As a licensed social worker, Linda Mills also acts as a professional counselor.