Mary Ellen Miller
Professor Mary Miller is the Sterling Professor of the History of Art at Yale University and was previously the Dean of Yale College for 6 years. Before serving as dean, Miller was Master at Saybrook College. Her education includes an A.B. at Princeton University and her M.A. and Ph.D. at Yale University. Miller stayed at Yale University and served as the chair of the Department of History of Art, chair of the Council on Latin American Studies, director of Graduate Studies in Archeological Studies, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Women Faculty. She has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Fellowship and delivered the Fifty-ninth A. W. Mellon lectures at the National Gallery of Art and is delivering the Slade Lectures at Cambridge University currently.
Her research and work centers on ancient art and the history of Mesoamerica and the Mayas. Miller curated The Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She has written, The Murals of Bonampak, The Blood of Kings (with Linda Schele), The Art of Mesoamerica, Maya Art and Architecture, The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya (with Karl Taube), and A Pre-Columbian World (co-edited with Jeffrey Quilter). She has most recently completed Painting a Map of Mexico City (co-edited with Barbara Mundy; 2012, a study of the rare indigenous map in the Beinecke Library) and The Spectacle of the Late Maya Court: Reflections on the Murals of Bonampak (with Claudia Brittenham; 2013).