Elijah Walter Miles (usually published as E. Walter Miles, May 4, 1934—July 8, 2020) was an American political scientist and scholar of constitutional law. He specialized in the Constitution of the United States and the judicial process. He spent more than 30 years at San Diego State University, where he served as head of the political science department. When he joined that faculty, he was the only Black professor at San Diego State University. The university librarian Robert Fikes, Jr. termed Miles "the Godfather of Black Faculty" at SDSU, and he was noted for his activism as well as his academic contributions.