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Virginia Elizabeth MillerDepartment of Art History (M/C 201)
Education
Academic ExperienceUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Art History
Teaching AwardCouncil for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award, University of Illinois-Chicago, 1999 Selected Academic ServiceDepartment:
College of Architecture and the Arts
University of Illinois at Chicago
National
MembershipsPhi Kappa Phi, College Art Association, Association for Latin American Art History, Native American Art Studies Association, Society for American Archaeology. Current ResearchThe Art and Architecture of Chichén Itzá. Neo-Maya architecture of Yucatan. The Maya Chacmool Selected PublicationsA Reexamination of Maya Gestures of Submission. Journal of Latin American Lore, UCLA Latin American Center 9(1) (1983):17-38. The Dwarf Motif in Classic Maya Art. In Fourth Palenque Round Table, 1980 (Merle Greene Robertson and Elizabeth P. Benson, eds.), pp. 141-154.Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, San Francisco, 1985. The Role of Gender in Precolumbian Art and Architecture, introductory essay and editor. University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland, 1988. Star Warriors at Chichén Itzá. In Word and Image in Maya Culture: Explorations in Language, Writing, and Representation (William F. Hanks and Don S. Rice, eds.), pp. 287-305.University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 1989. The Frieze of the Palace of the Stuccoes, Acanceh, Yucatan, Mexico. Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology, number 31, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., 1991. The Skull Rack in Mesoamerica. In Mesoamerican Architecture as a Cultural Symbol (Jeff K. Kowalski, ed.), pp. 340-360. Oxford University Press, New York, 1999. La escultura maya en el área norte maya durante el Clásico terminal; del reino al multepal. In Yucatán a través de los siglos (Ruth Gubler and Patricia Martel, eds.), Serie Memorias 5, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mexico, 2001, pp. 77-94. Pre-Columbian and Native American chapters of 11th edition of Gardner's Art Through the Ages (Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya, authors), Ch. 14, pp. 384-413, Ch. 30, pp. 940-959. Harcourt College Publishers, Fort Worth, 2001. Human Imagery in the Architectural Sculpture of the Northern Maya Lowlands. In Espacios mayas: usos, representaciones, creencias (A. Breton, A. Monod-Becquelin, and M. Ruz, eds.), pp. 209-234. Centro de Estudios Mayas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 2003. Representaciones de Sacrificio en Chichén Itzá. In Antropología de la eternidad: La muerte en la cultura maya. (A. Ciudad R., M. Ruz S., and M. J. Iglesias P. de L., eds.), pp. 383-404. Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas (publication number 7) and Centro de Estudios Mayas and Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Madrid, 2003. Review of The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland, edited by Virginia M. Fields and Victor Zamudio-Taylor. Latin American Antiquity 14 (1)(March 2003):95-97. Review of Gender in Pre-hispanic America, edited by Cecelia F. Klein. For CAA.Reviews. June 20, 2003. Review of Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand, American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South, exhibition at Art Institute of Chicago. CAA.Reviews, March 18, 2005 Review of Palaces of the New World, edited by Susan Toby Evans and Joanne Pillsbury. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 65(4)December 2006:620-623. Textile designs in the Sculptured Facades of Northern Maya Architecture: Women=s Production, Cloth, Tribute, and Political Power (with Jeff K. Kowalski). Ancient America, Special Publication No. 1, Sacred Bindings of the Cosmos: Ritual Acts of Bundling and Wrapping in Ancient Mesoamerica, pp. 145-174, ed. Julia Guernsey and F. Kent Reilly III, pp. 145-174. Boundary End Archaeology Research Center, Barnardsville, North Carolina, 2006. Skeletons, Skulls, and Bones in the Art of Chichén Itzá. In New perspectives on human sacrifice and ritual body treatments in ancient Maya society, edited by Vera Tiesler and Andrea Cucina, pp. 165-189. Springer, New York, 2007. Selected Recent Papers and LecturesMayan Revival Monuments in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Paper presented in Revivals session at the 30th International Congress of the History of Art, London, 2000. Woven in Stone: Architectural Decoration, Weaving, Women, and Political Power in Yucatán. Keynote lecture for Maya Hieroglyphic Workshop, New College of Florida, Sarasota, 2003. Human Sacrifice in the Art of Chichén Itzá. Doris Z. Stone New World Archaeology Lecture for the American Institute of Archaeology, Orange County, San Joaquin Valley, and Central Arizona societies, 2004. Images of Human Sacrifice at Chichén Itzá. British Museum Friends lecture, British Museum, London, 2004. Water, Fire, and Blood at Chichén Itzá and Tula, invited paper for session, “The Maya and the Toltecs: Reinterpreting Terminal Classic Interaction”, Geoffrey E. Braswell, organizer, annual meeting of Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, 2006. The Maya Chacmool, invited paper for session, “Northern Yucatan: Recent Studies”, Ruben Maldonado and Edward Kurjack, organizers, 52nd International Congress of Americanists, Seville, 2006. The Murals of Chichén Itzá, invited paper for Fourth Annual Tulane Maya Symposium and Workshop, Murals and Painted Texts by Maya Ah Tz’ ibob, 2007. Themes of Captives and Human Sacrifice in the Murals of Chichén Itzá, invited paper for session on Text, Image, and Identity in Maya painting for the VII Congreso Internacional de Mayistas, Mérida, Yucatán, 2007. Looking for Palaces at Chichén Itzá, invited paper for XVII Encuentro Internacional de Investigadores de la Cultura Maya, Campeche, Mexico, 2007. Recent Conferences and SymposiaCo-organizer, Praying for Rain: Style and Meaning as a Response to the Environment in Ancient American Art and Architecture. Symposium for the 50th International Congress of Americanists, Warsaw, July 2000. Chair, session on Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art of Latin America, for annual meeting of Midwest Art History Society, Chicago, April 2008. Selected Post-Doctoral Grants and Fellowships
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