Suzanna Whitelaw Miles (7 June 1922 — 10 April 1966) was an American academic ethnohistorian and archaeologist. Miles was known for her work among the Maya peoples of the Guatemalan highlands and her pioneering studies of pre-Columbian Maya civilization urban environments and settlement patterns. Most of her career was spent in Guatemala, where she became the first woman to reach the highest professorial rank of catedrática in anthropology, while at the Universidad de San Carlos in her last years.[1]