Margaret C. Miller

{{Infobox academic | name = Margaret C. Miller | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|FAHA|size=100}} | education = [[University of British Columbia]]<br />[[University of Oxford|Oxford University]] | alma_mater = [[Harvard University]] | workplaces = [[McMaster University]]<br />[[University of Toronto]]<br />[[University of Sydney]] | thesis_title = Perserie : the arts of the East in fifth-century Athens | thesis_year = 1985 }}

'''Margaret Christina Miller''' {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|FAHA}} (born 1955)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Miller, Margaret Christina – ID 94234921 |url=https://viaf.org/viaf/94234921/ |access-date=2022-05-28 |website=viaf.org}}</ref> is an archaeologist and the Arthur and Renee George Professor of Classical Archaeology at the [[University of Sydney]].

== Career == Miller holds a BA from the [[University of British Columbia]], a MA from [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]] and an AM from [[Harvard University]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Staff Profile: Professor Margaret Miller |url=https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/margaret-miller.html |access-date=2022-05-25 |website=The University of Sydney |language=en-AU}}</ref> Her 1985 PhD, also from Harvard, was titled "Perserie : the arts of the East in fifth-century Athens".<ref>{{Citation |author1=Miller |first=Margaret Christina |title=Perserie : the arts of the East in fifth-century Athens |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/12593948 |publication-date=1985 |publisher=University Microfilms International |access-date=29 May 2022}}</ref> She then continued her studies in the Classics at the [[American School of Classical Studies at Athens]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Fellow Profile: Margaret Miller |url=https://humanities.org.au/fellows/fellow-profile/?fellow_id=480 |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=Australian Academy of the Humanities |language=en-AU}}</ref>

She has participated in archaeological digs in England, Egypt and Turkey<ref name=":1" /> and has been a team leader (2012) and co-director (2013, 2014, 2019) of the Zagora Archaeological Project, excavating at the coastal town of [[Zagora, Greece|Zagora]] in Greece.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Project Teams |url=http://zagoraarchaeologicalproject.org/the-project/project-team/ |access-date=2022-05-28 |website=Zagora Archaeological Project |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Fieldwork at Zagora |url=http://zagoraarchaeologicalproject.org/the-project/fieldwork/ |access-date=2022-05-28 |website=Zagora Archaeological Project |language=en-US}}</ref>

Before moving to the University of Sydney, where she is the Arthur and Renee George Professor of Classical Archaeology, Miller worked in Canada at [[McMaster University]] and the [[University of Toronto]].<ref name=":1" />

Miller was elected a Fellow of the [[Australian Academy of the Humanities]] in 2011<ref name=":1" /> and the following year was made a Corresponding Member, [[German Archaeological Institute]].<ref name=":0" />

== Selected publications ==

=== Books ===

* {{Cite book |last=Miller |first=Margaret Christina |title=Athens and Persia in the fifth century B.C. : a study in cultural receptivity |date=19 August 2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-60758-2 |publication-date=1997}} * {{Cite book |title=Poetry, theory, praxis : the social life of myth, word and image in ancient Greece : essays in honour of William J. Slater |year=2003 |publisher=Oxbow |isbn=978-1-84217-101-1 |editor-last1=Miller |editor-first1=Margaret Christina |publication-date=2003 |editor2-last=Csapo |editor2-first=Eric}} * {{Cite book |author1= |title=The origins of theater in ancient Greece and beyond : from ritual to drama |date=15 January 2007 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-83682-1 |editor-last1=Csapo |editor-first1=Eric |publication-date=2007 |editor2-last=Miller |editor2-first=Margaret C.}}

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