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Virginia Elizabeth MillerDepartment of Art History (M/C 201) Course Links Education
Academic ExperienceUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Art History
Autonomous University of Yucatán, Mérida
Universidad del Valle, Guatemala City
Northwestern University
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
University of Texas
Teaching AwardCouncil for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award, University of Illinois-Chicago, 1999 Academic ServicesDepartment of Art History
College of Architecture and the Arts
University of Illinois at Chicago
National
Related Professional ActivitiesLectures for the Chicago Anthropological Society, Chicago, Archaeological Society, Field Museum, Art Institute, Primitive Art Society, South Suburban Archaeological Society, Bertoncini Art Gallery, North Park College, Chicago Cultural Center, Oakton Community College, Savvy Traveler 1984–2001 Member, Advisory Committee for “Symbols of Power: Public Images in the Colonial, Prehispanic, and Modern History of Mexico,” proposed program NEH Humanities Programs for Adults, Field Museum, Chicago, 1985 Television interview, Our People/Los Hispanos, WFLD, Chicago 1986 Courses on Pre-Columbian Art at the Field Museum, Chicago 1984, 1986 Co-organizer and lecturer, raft trip to view ruins on Usumacinta River and other sites, 1987 Interview for Field Museum radio series on Indians of the Americas, “...In the Field”, 1987 Member, Advisory Committee for Webber Native American Resource Center, Field Museum, Chicago, 1986–88 Member of Board, Chicago Anthropological Society 1987–88 Lecturer, Stella Solaris cruise to view equinox at Chichén Itzá and to visit other Maya sites, 1988 Interview for Jan Weller Show, WHAD Wisconsin, Public Radio, Milwaukee, 1991 Lecturer, Ancient American Institute for high school teachers, Art Institute of Chicago, 1991 Lecturer, courses on Mesoamerica for volunteers, Field Museum, Chicago 1991,1995 Intensive course in spoken Yucatec Maya at the University of North Carolina and in Yucatán, 1992 Evaluator for NEH museum exhibition proposals 1992 Lecturer, tour of Yucatán and Palenque 1994 Lecturer for teachers, Illinois Board of Education, Springfield IL 1995 Interview for The Visitor radio show, WMCW, Harvard/Woodstock, IL 1995 Spoken Yucatec course, University of Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán 1997 Newspaper interview, Diario de Yucatan, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico 1997 Advisor and participant, A&E film The Unexplained: Secrets of the Pyramids, 1999 Panelist, Maya Art and Anthropology, for Ah Dzib P’izté: Modern Maya Art in Ancient Tradition, exhibition at Lake Forest College, 1999 Lecture on Pre-Columbian art for docents, Art Institute of Chicago 2000 PublicationsMonographThe 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. Edited bookThe Role of Gender in Precolumbian Art and Architecture, introductory essay and editor. University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland, 1988. TextbookPre-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. Exhibition catalogueIndian Arts of the Americas: the López-Majano Collection. Catalogue of exhibition held at the University of Illinois at Chicago, May-June, 1979. Articles in books“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. “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. “Adela Breton in Yucatan”. In The Art of Ruins: Miss Adela Breton and the Temples of Mexico (Sue Giles and Jennifer Stewart, eds.), pp. 33–41. Catalogue for an exhibition, December 1989 to March 1990. City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, 1989. Entries on Mesoamerica: Introduction, Maya, Olmec, and Veracruz. In Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society, & Culture (2 vols.) (Michael S. Werner, ed.), Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago and London, 1997. “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. “El mundo clásico maya”. In Mesoamérica: un acercamiento a la cultura arquitectónica y urbana de seis ciudades (María de Lourdes Aburto Osnaya and Arturo Alavid Pérez, eds.), Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Azcapotzalco, Mexico City, 1999, pp. 67–89. “Acanceh”. In Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia (Susan T. Evans and David L. Webster, eds.), Garland Publishing, New York, 2001. “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. Articles in journalsMiller, Virginia E., D. M. Varner, and B. A. Brown. “The Tusked Negrito Mask of Oaxaca”. The Masterkey, vol. 49, no. 2 (April-June 1975):44–50. Southwest Museum, Los Angeles. Spanish translation published in Boletín of Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico, época II, no. 12 (January-March 1975):51–54. Varner, Dudley M., V. E. Miller, and B. A. Brown. “Masked Stilt-Dancers of the Barrio San Pedro de Zaachila, Oaxaca”. The Masterkey, vol. 49, no. 3 (July–September 1975): 110–113. Southwest Museum, Los Angeles. Spanish translation published in Boletín of Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico, época II, no. 14 (July–September 1975):55–58. “A Late Classic Maya Polychrome Plate”. Bulletin of Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College XL(1) (1982–83):38–43. “A Reexamination of Maya Gestures of Submission”. Journal of Latin American Lore, UCLA Latin American Center 9(1) (1983):17–38. Book reviews“La religión maya”, by Miguel Rivera Dorado. American Antiquity 53(4) (October 1988):883–884. “The Face of Ancient America: the Wally and Brenda Zollman Collection of Precolumbian Art”, by Lee A. Parsons, John B. Carlson, and Peter David Joralemon. African Arts XXIII( 3) (July 1990):96–100, 104. “The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes”, exhibition at Art Institute of Chicago and catalogue edited by Richard F. Townsend. Art Journal (Fall 1993):84–87. “The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco: Utopia and Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico”, by Jeannette Favrot Peterson. Latin American Antiquity vol. 5, no. 2 (June 1994):187. “Yaxchilán: The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City”, by Carolyn E. Tate. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians vol. 53, no. 3 (September 1994):356–357. “Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period”, by Dorie Reents-Budet. Latin American Antiquity vol. 5, no. 3 (September 1994):278–279. “Latin American Art”, by John F. Scott. Latin American Antiquity, vol. 11, no. 2 (June 2000):198–200. In pressHuman Imagery in the Architectural Sculpture of the Northern Maya Lowlands. To appear in volume on Maya representations, uses, and beliefs related to space (D. Michelet, P. Becquelin, & A. Breton, eds.), to be published by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City. In preparationArt and architecture of Chichén Itzá Review of The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland, by Virginia M. Fields and Victor Zamudio-Taylor. For Latin American Antiquity. Recent Papers“Smoking Mirror at Chichén Itzá”. Presented at the annual meeting of Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, May 1995. “Northern Maya Sculpture in the Terminal Classic: from Kingship to Multepal”. Presented at the International Congress of Americanists, Quito, Ecuador, July 1997. “Sacrifice, Skullracks, and Smoking Mirror at Chichén Itzá: What the Aztecs learned from the Maya”. Invited paper presented at conference on Mayan Culture at the Millennium, SUNY Buffalo, April 1998. “Mayan Revival Monuments in Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico”. Paper presented in Revivals session at the 30th International Congress of the History of Art, London, September 2000. “Maya Architecture as Metaphor”. Invited paper presented at symposium on Maya representations, uses, and beliefs related to space, sponsored by the Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology, the Maya Teaching and Research Group, and the Archaeology of the Americas Research Unit, University of Paris, December 2000. “Lo que los aztecas aprendieron de los mayas”. Invited paper presented at the International Congress of Maya Culture, Mérida, March 2001. “La producción femenina, textiles, y poder político en el área maya norteño”. Invited paper co-authored with Jeff K. Kowalski presented at annual meeting of Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, Zacatecas, Mexico, August 2001. “Textile designs in the Sculptured Facades of Northern Maya Architecture: Women’s Production, Cloth, Tribute, and Political Power”. Paper co-authored with Jeff K. Kowalski presented at session “Sacred Bindings of the Cosmos: Ritual Acts of Bundling and Wrapping in Ancient Mesoamerica” at annual meeting of American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 2001 Recent Lectures“Women in Pre-Columbian Art”. North Park College, Chicago,
1994 “Adela Breton—A Victorian Traveler in the Yucatán”. Art Institute of Chicago, 1993 and Museum of Contemporary Art, Mérida, Mexico, 1997 “The National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico”. Joy of Art: World-Class Museums series, Art Institute of Chicago, 2000. “Maya Architecture of Yucatan” (in Spanish), invited speaker, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, State of Mexico Campus, Atizapán. Man: his natural and built environment...a century dies, a millennium is born, 1st International Congress of Architecture, 2000 Recent Conferences and SymposiaCo-chair, Indigenous Encounters Before the Spanish Conquest. Symposium for the annual meeting of the College Art Association, Chicago, February 1992. Moderator for part of 2nd Palenque Mesa Redonda, on Architecture and Ideology, at Palenque, Mexico, June 1997. Chair, Art of Mexico session, annual meeting of Midwest Art Historical Society, University of Illinois, April 1998. Co-organizer, annual meeting of Midwest Mesoamericanists Archaeological Society, University of Illinois, March 1999. Discussant, New Findings on Prehistoric and Ethnohistoric Societies in Latin America, Chair Anna C. Roosevelt, Central States Anthropology Society, Chicago, April 1999. Co-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. ExhibitionIndian Arts of the Americas: the López-Majano Collection. Exhibition held at the University of Illinois-Chicago, May–June 1979. Selected Post-Doctoral Grants and Fellowships
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