Mary Miller (art historian)
Mary Ellen Miller | |
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Born | December 30, 1952 |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Art historian, Academician |
Employer | Yale University |
Known for | Specializing in Mesoamerica and the Maya |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship, Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Princeton University (A.B.), Yale University (Ph.D.) |
Mary Ellen Miller (born December 30, 1952)
Academic career
A native of
Miller served as the master of Saybrook College from 1999 until the autumn of 2008, when she was both appointed as Sterling Professor and named the replacement of Peter Salovey as Dean of Yale College. She was the first woman to hold Yale College's highest office,[4] and served as dean from December 2008 to June 2014.[5] When Yale University President, Richard C. Levin, announced Miller's appointment as dean, he had nothing but praise for her: "Mary is the embodiment of what you look for in a Yale College dean," Levin said in an interview after the official appointment ceremony held in Luce Hall. "She is a magnificent scholar, a devoted teacher and a terrific master."[4] Miller cited a desire to return to academia as her reason for stepping down from the deanship position in 2014.[5]
She has also 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. Until December 2018, she was the senior director for the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage Art of the Ancient New World at Yale.[6] In January 2019, she became the director of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.[7]
Exhibition projects
Miller served as the guest curator for "The Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya", a highly acclaimed exhibition of
Other projects and publications
Miller has worked, together with Beatriz de la Fuente, Stephen Houston, Karl Taube and artists Heather Hurst and Leonard Ashby, for many years on her archaeological project to document and reconstruct the Maya wall paintings at Bonampak, Mexico,[9] which resulted in two standard works, namely The Murals of Bonampak in 1986 and, together with Claudia Brittenham, The Spectacle of the Late Maya Court; Reflections on the Murals of Bonampak in 2013. Miller is also the author of several overviews written for a general public, specifically Maya Art and Architecture, The Art of Mesoamerica and, along with the aforementioned 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. A few additional works include:
- co-edited with Barbara Mundy, Painting a Map of Mexico City (Yale: 2012)
- The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec, (London: Thames and Hudson, 1986; 5th ed, 2012); Spanish edition 2007.
- co-edited with Khristaan Villela, The Aztec Calendar Stone (Getty Sourcebooks: 2010).
- ed. Jeffrey Quilter and Mary Miller A Precolumbian World (Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., 2006).
- with Simon Martin Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya (London: Thames and Hudson 2004).
- with Linda Schele, The Blood of Kings: Ritual and Dynasty in Maya Art, (New York: George Braziller, and Fort Worth: Kimbell Art Museum, 1986).
- Jaina Figurines: A Study of Maya Iconography, Exhibition Catalogue (3 May - 29 June), (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 1975).[10]
- The Maya Collapsed—Could We?(CNN: 2012, December 7).[11]
- Miller, M. (2013). Yale University Presidential Inaugural Symposia: The Splendid Maya Murals of Bonampak, Mexico: The Spectacle of the Late Maya Court [Public Lecture]. USA: Yale University.[12]
- Miller, M. (1998). A Design for Meaning in Maya Architecture. In S. Houston (Ed.), Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture (pp. 187–222). Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
In 2017, Prof. Miller spoke in support of the authenticity of the
Recognition
Miller has won national recognition for her work on the Maya, including a
References
- ^ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF). Retrieved on 2008-05-08.
- ^ Miller, Mary. "The Murals of Bonampak, Chiapas Mexico". Retrieved January 21, 2014 – via ProQuest.
- ^ "MARY MILLER TO BE NAMED DEAN TODAY". yaledailynews.com. Retrieved 2015-12-05.
- ^ a b "MARY MILLER APPOINTED DEAN AT FRIDAY CEREMONY". yaledailynews.com. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
- ^ a b "Miller and Pollard depart deanships". yaledailynews.com blog. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ^ "Mary Miller | Department of the History of Art". arthistory.yale.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ Hood, Amy (18 April 2018). "The J. Paul Getty Trust Announces the appointment of Mary Miller as Director of The Getty Research Institute". About the Getty - Press Release. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
- ^ "Awards for Distinction". College Art Association. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ^ Bonampak Documentation Project Archived 2009-09-18 at the Wayback Machine, Yale
- ^ "Yale University :: Department of the History of Art". arthistory.yale.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-11-28. Retrieved 2015-12-05.
- ^ "The Maya collapsed - could we? - CNN.com". CNN. Retrieved 2015-12-05.
- ^ The Splendid Maya Murals of Bonampak, Mexico, Yale Lectures, retrieved 2015-12-05
- ^ Mike Cummings, Authenticating the oldest book in the Americas. January 18, 2017 - news.yale.edu
- ^ "A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ^ "Senior Fellows, 2016–2020". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ^ "Office of the Dean of the College" (PDF). yale.org.uk.
- ^ "Dean Of Yale College To Lecture At Farmingdale". farmingdale.edu. Retrieved 20 July 2016.