Mary Miller

Mary Miller serves as Director of the Getty Research Institute and was previously a Sterling Professor at Yale University, where she held leadership roles including Dean of Yale College from 2008 to 2014.

Her research centers on ancient Mexico and the Maya civilization, with deep expertise in Mesoamerican art history and archaeology. She has pioneered significant scholarship on pre-Columbian visual culture, ritual practices, and iconography, reshaping understanding of indigenous Mesoamerican societies through interdisciplinary methodologies.

Dr. Miller's distinguished honors include:

• Guggenheim Fellowship
• Getty Grant
• Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994)
• Election to the American Philosophical Society (2021)

As an academic leader, she has directed major research initiatives and delivered prestigious lecture series including the A.W. Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art (2010) and the Slade Lectures at Cambridge University (2015), influencing both scholarly and public engagement with ancient American art.