Title of Dissertation: Pose and Gesture in Classic Maya Monumental Sculpture

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1 VIRGINIA ELIZABETH MILLER Department of Art History University of Illinois at Chicago m/c 201, Jefferson Hall W. Harrison St. Chicago, Illinois EDUCATION McGill University Montreal B.A. with distinction in French and Spanish, 1969 Universidad Nacional Mexico Art History and Spanish literature courses, 1970 Autónoma de México City University of Texas Austin M.A. Latin American Studies, 1973 Ph.D. Art History, 1981 Title of Dissertation: Pose and Gesture in Classic Maya Monumental Sculpture ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE University of Illinois at Chicago: , Visiting Lecturer, , Assistant Professor, , Associate Professor, Department of Art History. Lecture courses: Introduction to the Visual Arts, Art and Architecture of Latin America, Latin American Art and Cinema (team-taught), African and Oceanic Art, Pre-Columbian Architecture, Pre-Columbian Art, Native American Art, Pre- Columbian Art of Mesoamerica, Art and Archaeology of South America (teamtaught), Pre-Columbian Art of South America, Art of Empire: Aztecs and Inkas Undergraduate and graduate seminars: Art of the Ancient Maya, Ancient Maya Art and Culture (team-taught), The Sacred and the Secular, Indigenous Arts of the Americas: 500 Years of Changing Traditions, Engendering the Arts of the Indigenous Americas, Religion and Ritual in the Indigenous Americas, Sacred Landscapes of the Americas Autonomous University of Yucatán, Mérida: Spring 1997, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Anthropology. Art of the Maya Universidad del Valle, Guatemala City: Spring 1993, Visiting Professor, Department of Archaeology. Maya Art and Iconography, Mesoamerican Archaeology Northwestern University, Evanston: Fall 1992, Lecturer, Department of Art History. Art and Architecture of the Ancient Maya and Spring 2016, Visiting Associate Professor, Pre-Columbian Art Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio: , Instructor, Department of Art. Mesoamerican Art, African Art, Pre-Columbian Art of South America, Seminar in Pre-Columbian and Primitive Art, Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Maya (team-taught) 1

2 University of Texas: , Teaching Assistant, Department of Spanish. Beginning and Intermediate Spanish TEACHING AWARD Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award, University of Illinois-Chicago, 1999 ACADEMIC SERVICE Department: Awards Committee Department Guidelines Committee Introduction to the Visual Arts Committee, Chair Computer Committee Executive Committee Personnel Committee, Chair , Curriculum Committee, Chair , 2003, 2004 Educational Policy Committee 2006 Search Committee for Modernist art historian Search Committee for Africanist art historian Search Committee for Modernist and Asian positions, chair Director of Graduate Studies , 2007 Graduate Program Committee , 2000, , , Director of Undergraduate Studies Department Chair College: Planning Task Force for Computer Utilization Educational Policy Committee

3 Executive Committee Search Committee for Dean of College of Architecture, Art, and Urban Planning Committee to Select Teaching Award Nominee 1998 College Restructuring Committee University: Honors College Member Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Women, Subcommittee on Academic and Curricular Issues Moderator, panel on women and research 1992 Review Committee for Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese Department 1998 Fulbright interviewer 1999 Committee on Excellence in Teaching and Learning Review Committee for Department of Performing Arts 2000 Search Committee, position for Native American specialist Graduate Awards Committee Senate Academic Services Committee Senate Public Relations and Public Service Committee Senate Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee Graduate College Executive Committee National: Chair, Award committee for best book published on Latin American art Association for Latin American Art History RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Lectures 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 Bookstore, Chicago Maya Society, International Women s Associates 1984-present Lecture on Pre-Columbian art for docents, Art Institute of Chicago 2000 Lecturer, Boston University Archaeological Field School, Belize 2002 Lecturer, Archaeological Institute of America

4 Newspaper interview, Por Esto!, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico 2007 Lecturer, Archaeological Institute of America tours of Maya sites 2013, 2014, 2016, Panel discussion on Day of the Dead, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago 2016 MEMBERSHIPS College Art Association, Association for Latin American Art History, Society for American Archaeology PUBLICATIONS Monograph: 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 Edited book: The Role of Gender in Precolumbian Art and Architecture, introductory essay and editor. University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland, Exhibition catalogue: Indian Arts of the Americas: the López-Majano Collection. Catalogue of exhibition held at the University of Illinois at Chicago, May-June, Textbook: 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 , Ch. 30, pp Harcourt College Publishers, Fort Worth, 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 Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, San Francisco, 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 University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, Adela Breton in Yucatan. In The Art of Ruins: Miss Adela Breton and the Temples of Mexico (Sue Giles and Jennifer Stewart, eds.), pp Catalogue for an exhibition, December 1989 to March City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol,

5 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, The Skull Rack in Mesoamerica. In Mesoamerican Architecture as a Cultural Symbol (Jeff K. Kowalski, ed.), pp Oxford University Press, New York, 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.), pp Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Azcapotzalco, Mexico City, Acanceh. In Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia (Susan T. Evans and David L. Webster, eds.), Garland Publishing, New York, 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, Merida, Mexico, 2001, pp 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 S., eds.) pp Centro de Estudios Mayas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 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 Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas (publication number 7) and Centro de Estudios Mayas and Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Madrid, Textile designs in the Sculptured Facades of Northern Maya Architecture: Women s Production, Cloth, Tribute, and Political Power (junior author with Jeff K. Kowalski). Ancient America, Special Publication No. 1, Sacred Bindings of the Cosmos: Ritual Acts of Bundling and Wrapping in Ancient Mesoamerica (2006), (Julia Guernsey and F. Kent Reilly III, eds.): Skeletons, Skulls, and Bones in the Art of Chichén Itzá. In New perspectives on human sacrifice and ritual body treatments in ancient Maya society, (Vera Tiesler and Andrea Cucina, eds.), pp Springer, New York, Documentando los Chac mo'olo'ob de Chichén Itzá: una investigación preliminar de una escultura enigmática (with Rubén Maldonado Cárdenas). In Aportaciones del Salvamento Arqueológico y otros estudios en la reconstrucción de la Cultura Maya, Memorias del Tercer Simposio de Cultura Maya Ichkaantijoo, (Angel Góngora Salas, ed.), pp Maldonado Editores del Mayab, Mérida, Mexico,

6 The Castillo-sub at Chichén Itzá: a Re-consideration, for Landscapes of the Itza: Archaeology and Art History at Chichén Itzá and Neighboring Sites, (Linnea Wren, Cynthia Kristan-Graham, Travis Nygard, and Kaylee Spencer, eds.), pp University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Articles in journals: Miller, Virginia E., D. M. Varner, and B. A. Brown. The Tusked Negrito Mask of Oaxaca. The Masterkey, vol. 49, no. 2 (April-June 1975): Southwest Museum, Los Angeles. Spanish translation published in Boletín of Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico, época II, no. 12 (January-March 1975): 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): Southwest Museum, Los Angeles. Spanish translation published in Boletín of Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico, época II, no. 14 (July-September 1975): A Late Classic Maya Polychrome Plate. Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College XL (1) ( ): A Reexamination of Maya Gestures of Submission. Journal of Latin American Lore 9(1) (1983): Esqueletos, huesos y calaveras en el arte de Chichén Itzá. Temas Antropológicos: Revista Científica de Investigaciones Regionales 30(2) (September 2008): Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico. El tzompantli un espejo en el arte maya, Arqueología Mexicana XXV (148) (noviembrediciembre 2017): Special issue, Los Tzompantlis en Mesoamérica: Calaveras y andamios sagrados (Vera Tiesler, ed.) Reviews: La religión maya, by Miguel Rivera Dorado. American Antiquity 53(4) (October 1988): 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): The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco: Utopia and Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico, by Jeannette F. Peterson. Latin American Antiquity 5(2) (June 1994):187. Yaxchilán: The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City, by Carolyn E. Tate. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 53(3) (September 1994):

7 Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period, by Dorie Reents-Budet. Latin American Antiquity 5(3) (September 1994): Latin American Art, by John F. Scott. Latin American Antiquity 11(2) (June 2000): 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): Gender in Pre-hispanic America, edited by Cecelia F. Klein. CAA.Reviews. June 20, 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 Palaces of the New World, edited by Susan Toby Evans and Joanne Pillsbury. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 65(4) December 2006: Water, colour, and the Maya, review of Veiled brightness: a history of ancient Maya colour, by Stephen Houston, Claudia Brittenham, Cassandra Mesick, Alexandre Tokovinine and Christina Warinner and of The Fiery pool: the Maya and the Mythic Sea, edited by Daniel Finamore and Stephen D. Houston. Antiquity 84 (2010): Children of the Plumed Serpent: the Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico, edited by Virginia M. Fields et al.. CAA.Reviews, January 30, In press: The Representation of Hair in the Art of Chichén Itzá, for Social Skins of the Head: Body Beliefs and Ritual in Ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes, edited by Vera Tiesler and Nené Lozada, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. Body Color and Body Adornment at Chichén Itzá, for Painting the Skin: Pigments on Bodies and Codices in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, edited by Elodie Dupey and María Luisa Vázquez, University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Chacmool. Entry in Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, New York In preparation: Heads, Skulls, and Sacred Skullracks. New studies on tzompantlis in Mesoamerica. Coauthored with Vera Tiesler for special issue of Ancient Mesoamerica on Chichén Itzá, edited by Rafael Cobos. Review of Constructing Power & Place in Mesoamerica: Pre-Hispanic Paintings from Three Regions, Merideth Paxton and Leticia Staines Cicero, eds., for The Journal of Interdisciplinary History Mayan Revival Monuments in Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico Art and Architecture of Chichén Itzá, with Mary E. Miller and Claudia Brittenham 7

8 RECENT PAPERS Head and Heart: Warfare and Human Sacrifice at Chichén Itzá, paper for session Violence in Ancient American Art, for the annual meeting of the College Art Association, Chicago, Feb , The Representation of Hair in the Art of Chichén Itzá, invited paper for session Cultural Meanings of Head Treatments in Mesoamerican and Andean Societies, for the annual meeting of Society for American Archaeology, Austin, April 23-27, La subestructura del Castillo de Chichén Itzá, invited paper for the Primera Mesa Redonda del Mayab, Arquitectura y Sociedad entre los Mayas, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, October 17-21, The Triple Legacy of Teotihuacan in Chichén Itzá (co-author Claudia Brittenham), for session Fundaciones y Fuentes: Power from the Past and from Afar in the Maya World, chaired by Megan O Neil and Mary E. Miller for the X Congreso Internacional de Mayistas, Izamal, Mexico, June 26-July 2, El chac mool, una incógnita inquietante en la cultura prehispánica (with Rubén Maldonado), for the Tercer Simposio de Cultura Maya Ichkaantijoo, Aportaciones del Salvamento Arqueólogico y Otros Estudios en la Reconstrucción de la Cultura Maya, Centro INAH-Yucatán, Mérida, Mexico, December 5-9, What the Chacmool Wore (with Rubén Maldonado), invited paper for session Crosscultural approaches to Mesoamerican costume and identity (organized by Sharisse McCafferty) for the 50 th Annual Chacmool Conference, Calgary, November 8-12, Re-examining the Chacmool, One More Time, invited paper for the Maya at the Lago Conference, Davidson, North Carolina, April 26-29, Cabezas, calaveras, y andiamos sacros. Nuevos estudios sobre el uso de tzompantlis en Chichén Itzá (with Vera Tiesler), paper for session Transformaciones religiosas y de visión del mundo. Cambios y continuadades for the International Congress of Americanists, Salamanca, July 10, RECENT LECTURES Skeletons, Bones, and Skulls in the Art of Chichén Itzá. Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, April 8, 2013, Milwaukee chapter of Archaeological Institute of America, October 6, 2013, Western Illinois chapter of Archaeological Institute of America, February 3, 2015, Chicago Archaeological Society, September 27, 2015, Northern Alabama chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, Huntsville, April 14, 2015, New York chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, New York, November 5,

9 RECENT CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA Chair, session on Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art of Latin America, for annual meeting of Midwest Art History Society, Chicago, April Co-organizer, annual meeting of Midwest Mesoamericanists, Chicago, March Co-chair (with Catherine Burdick), Between/Beyond Text-Image: Engaging Visual Culture in Mesoamerica and South America, Association for Latin American Art- sponsored session, College Art Association meeting, Chicago, February EXHIBITION Indian Arts of the Americas: the López-Majano Collection. Exhibition held at the University of Illinois-Chicago, May-June SELECTED POST-DOCTORAL GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS H. H. Powers Travel Award, Oberlin College 1981 Fellow in Pre-Columbian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. American Philosophical Society Research Grant 1983 Exxon Education Foundation Fellowship, 1984 Newberry Library, Chicago (deferred to 1985) National Endowment for the Humanities Travels to Collections Grant 1984 Canadian Studies Faculty Enrichment Programme Grant 1985 English-Speaking Union Faculty Grant 1986 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Fulbright Scholar, Guatemala 1993 Fulbright Scholar, Mexico Fellow in Pre-Columbian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. Institute for the Humanities Fellowship, UIC (declined) Sainsbury Research Unit Fellowship, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England 2004 Institute for the Humanities Fellowship, UIC