Biography: Miriam Robbins Dexter, Ph.D.

Miriam Robbins Dexter holds a B.A. in Classics and a Ph.D. in Indo-European Studies (comparative linguistics, ancient Indo-European languages, archaeology, and comparative mythology), both from UCLA. Her doctoral dissertation, Indo-European Female Figures, along with courses she has taught (and is still teaching) at UCLA, in ancient goddesses and heroines, evolved into her book, Whence the Goddesses: A Source Book. Her new book, co-authored with Sinologist Victor Mair, Sacred Display:

Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia, is forthcoming from Cambria Press. She is the author of over twenty scholarly articles and nine encyclopedia articles on ancient female figures. She co-edited an anthology of articles in honor of the archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, Varia on the Indo-European Past: Papers in Memory of Marija Gimbutas (1997), as well as a monograph of Dr. Gimbutas' own collected articles, The Kurgan Culture and the Indo-Europeanization of Europe: Selected articles from 1952 to 1993 (1997). She co-edited ten volumes of the Proceedings of the UCLA Indo-European conference (1998-2008). She edited and supplemented the book which Marija Gimbutas was writing at the time of her death, The Living Goddesses (University of California Press, Winter, 1999.) She currently co-edits conference proceedings for the Institute of Archaeomythology. For thirteen years, she taught courses in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit language and literature in the department of Classics at the University of Southern California. She has given guest lectures both at the New Bulgarian University (Sophia, Bulgaria) and "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iai, Moldavia, Romania. She is presently teaching in the Women's Studies and Honors Programs at UCLA.