Mary Miller
Professor Mary Miller holds an undergraduate degree from Princeton and a doctorate from Yale, and is the Vincent J. Scully professor of the History of Art. She is known for her work on ancient Mesoamerican art, especially Maya art. Her recent award-winning book, "Maya Art and Architecture (1999)", has been called "a milestone in the dissemination of knowledge about Maya art" (Andrea Stone, CAA Reviews). Professor Miller now directs the Bonampak Documentation Project, a collaborative work supported by the Getty Grant and the National Geographic Society, to document, reconstruct, and disseminate the ancient Maya murals of Bonampak, Chiapas, Mexico; her work on these murals has been published in National Geographic Magazine, Archaeology, and academic journals. Professor Miller has appeared in a number of documentary films on the Maya and ancient Mexico and can be seen on Discovery and History Channels. A recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is also the Master of Saybrook College.


Books:



The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec, (London: Thames and Hudson, 1986; 3rd ed., 1996), 240pp.

Maya Art and Architecture, 1999.

with Karl Taube, The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya: An Illustrated Dictionary of Mesoamerican Religion, (London: Thames and Hudson, 1993), 216pp.

with Linda Schele, The Blood of Kings: Ritual and Dynasty in Maya Art, (New York: George Braziller, and Fort Worth: Kimbell Art Museum, 1986), 335pp.

The Murals of Bonampak, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986), 176pp.

Jaina Figurines: A Study of Maya Iconography, Exhibition Catalogue (03 May - 29 June), (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 1975), pp. 71.


Email: mary.miller@yale.edu