Patricia Cox Miller

Patricia Cox Miller is the Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion, Emerita, at Syracuse University, where she taught from 1977 to 2012. Her major interest has been in the history of religious imagination in early Christianity, Neoplatnism, and Gnosticism.

Her books include Biography in Late Antiquity: A Quest for the Holy Man (1983), Dreams in Late Antiquity (1994), and The Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity: Essays in Imagination and Religion (2001).

She earned a B.A. in history from Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, an M.A. in history of Christianity from the University of Chicago Divinity, and a Ph.D. in the history of religion in late antiquity, also from the University of Chicago.