Mary Miller

This article is about the art historian, Mesoamerican scholar and Yale dean. For other people of the same name, see Mary Miller (disambiguation).

Mary Ellen Miller (born December 30, 1952)[1] is an American art historian and academician specialized in Mesoamerica and the Mayas. She was Dean of Yale College from 2008 to June 2014.[2]

Academic Career

A native of New York State, Miller earned her A.B. degree from Princeton University and her Ph.D. from Yale in 1981 with thesis titled The Murals of Bonampak, Chiapas Mexico.[3] In 1998, she was appointed as the Vincent Scully, Jr. Professor of the History of Art. In 2008, she was appointed as Sterling Professor at Yale.

Miller served as the Master of Saybrook College from 1999 until the autumn of 2008, when she was named the replacement of Peter Salovey as Dean of Yale College.

She has served as the Chair of the History of Art, Latin American Studies, and Archaeological Studies Departments at Yale, as well as Director of Undergraduate Studies of the History of Art.

Exhibition Projects

Miller served as the guest curator for "The Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya", a highly acclaimed exhibition of Maya art that took place in 2004 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. For that exhibition, she wrote the catalogue of the same title—a finalist for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award of the College Art Association—with Simon Martin, senior epigrapher at the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. A previous exhibition catalogue, The Blood of Kings, co-authored with Linda Schele was awarded the Barr Prize in 1986.

Other Projects and Publications

Miller has worked for many years on her archaeological project to document and reconstruct the Maya wall paintings at Bonampak, Mexico,[4] which resulted in two standard works, namely The Murals of Bonampak (1986) and, together with Claudia Brittenham, The Spectacle of the Late Maya Court; Reflections on the Murals of Bonampak (2013). Miller is also the author of several overviews written for a general public, specifically Maya Art and Architecture, The Art of Mesoamerica, and, together with Karl Taube, The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya: An Illustrated Dictionary of Mesoamerican Religion. Her many articles address questions of Aztec and Maya art, as well as the historiography of Precolumbian art.

Recognition

Miller has won national recognition for her work on the Maya, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In April and May 2010, she delivered the 59th A. W. Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery. She is scheduled to deliver the Slade Lectures at Cambridge University during the academic year 2014-2015.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF) . Retrieved on 2008-05-08.
  2. ↑ http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/01/24/miller-and-pollard-depart-deanships/
  3. ↑ Miller, Mary. "The Murals of Bonampak, Chiapas Mexico". ProQuest. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
  4. ↑ Bonampak Documentation Project, Yale
  5. ↑ http://www.farmingdale.edu/news/news-2013/mary-miller-speaks-10-9-13.shtml

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