EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D., Indo-European Studies, 1978.

University of California, Los Angeles

Dissertation: Indo-European Female Figures

A.B., Classical Languages and Literature (cum laude), 1966

University of California, Los Angeles

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Fall, 2000 - present UCLA Honors Collegium, Acting Myth (HC 15)

Winter, 1997 to present UCLA Women's Studies Program and Honors Program, "The Roots of Patriarchy: Ancient Goddesses and Heroines"

1995; 2003-present Adjunct Faculty, The Union Institute

February, 2005 - External Reader, Pacifica University, Ph.D. program

November 2007

July, 2007 Guest Lecture, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iai, Moldavia, Romania

June, 2005 Guest lecture, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria

May, 2005 Guest lecture, University of Colorado, Boulder

Summer, 1994 -fall 2004 Antioch University

Adjunct Faculty: annual course, "Ancient Goddesses and Heroines"

Spring, 1996 to 2004 Antioch University, Annual All-day Workshop, "From the Great Above to the Great Below: Near-Eastern Goddesses of the Heaven, the Earth, and the Underworld"

Winter, 1997- Fall, 2001 UCLA Women's Studies Program: Senior Research Seminar (WS 197); Introduction to Women's Studies (WS 10)

Fall, 1995; fall, 1994 University of California, Los Angeles

Lecturer, Council on Educational Development

"The Roots of Patriarchy: Ancient Goddesses and Heroines"

Fall 1981- University of Southern California

spring, 1993 Lecturer, Department of Classics

Latin grammar; readings in Ovid, Vergil, Latin Elegists; Greek grammar; readings in Homer; readings in Linear B; readings in Rigvedic Sanskrit; The Latin and Greek Elements in English; "Ancient Goddesses and Heroines"; Classical Mythology

Winter 1980- University of California, Los Angeles:

spring, 1984 Lecturer, Council on Educational Development

"Goddesses and Heroines in Ancient Literatures and Mythologies"

Spring 1981- California State University, Northridge

Winter 1983 Lecturer, Program in Women's Studies

Introduction to Women's Studies

Fall 1980- California State University, Los Angeles

Winter 1982 Instructor, American Culture and Language Program

English as a Second Language

Fall 1979- Occidental College

Spring 1980 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics,

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Introductory Linguistics; Historical Linguistics

Spring 1979- Evans Community Adult School, Los Angeles

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS: Whence the Goddesses: A Source Book. Pergamon Press, Athene Series, 1990

Reprint: Teachers College Press, Columbia University, Athene Series, 1992

Forthcoming: Apotropaic and Erotic Eurasian Female Figures.

Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia. (Co-authored with Victor H. Mair) Cambria Press. Forthcoming.

BOOKS EDITED

Signs of Civilization: Neolithic Symbol Systems of Southeast Europe. Proceedings from the International Symposium on the Neolithic Symbol System of Southeast Europe, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Novi Sad, May 25-29, 2004. 2009. Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Novi Sad Branch, Marler, Joan and Miriam Robbins Dexter, eds. Sebastopol: Institute of Archaeomythology.

Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2006, Karlene Jones-Bley, Angela della Volpe, Martin Huld, and Miriam Robbins Dexter, eds. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man Monograph, 2008.

Prehistoric Roots of Romanian and Southeast European Traditions, by Adrian Poruciuc, Joan Marler and Miriam Robbins Dexter, eds. Sebastopol, California: Institute of Archaeomythology. 2009. Preface by Miriam Robbins Dexter.

Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2006, Karlene Jones-Bley, Angela della Volpe, Martin Huld, and Miriam Robbins Dexter, eds. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man Monograph, 2007.

Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2005, Karlene Jones-Bley, Angela della Volpe, Martin Huld, and Miriam Robbins Dexter, eds. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man Monograph, 2006

Proceedings of the conference, "Female Mysteries of the Substratum," Rila, Bulgaria, June 2-13, 2004. Joan Marler and Miriam Robbins Dexter, eds. Sebastopol: Institute of Archaeomythology, Forthcoming.

Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2004, Karlene Jones-Bley, Angela della Volpe, Martin Huld, and Miriam Robbins Dexter, eds. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man Monograph, 2005.

Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2003, Karlene Jones-Bley, Angela della Volpe, Martin Huld, and Miriam Robbins Dexter, eds. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man Monograph, 2005.

The Black Sea Flood and its Aftermath: Papers from the First International Symposium on the Interdisciplinary Significance of the Black Sea Flood, Liguria Study Center, Bogliasco, Italy, June 3-7, 2002. Joan Marler and Miriam Robbins Dexter, eds, Forthcoming.

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2002, Karlene Jones-Bley, Angela della Volpe, Martin Huld, and Miriam Robbins Dexter, eds. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man Monograph, 2003.

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2001, Karlene Jones-Bley, Angela della Volpe, Martin Huld, and Miriam Robbins Dexter, eds. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man Monograph, 2002

Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2000, Martin J. Huld, Karlene Jones-Bley, Angela della Volpe, and Miriam Robbins Dexter, eds. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man Monograph, 2001

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 1998, Karlene Jones-Bley, Angela della Volpe, Miriam Robbins Dexter, and Martin Huld, eds. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man Monograph, 1999.

The Living Goddesses, by Marija Gimbutas, edited and supplemented by Miriam Robbins Dexter. Los Angeles and Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Paperback edition 2001.

Proceedings of the Ninth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 1997, Karlene Jones-Bley, Angela della Volpe, Miriam Robbins Dexter, and Martin Huld, eds. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man Monograph No. 28, 1998.

The Kurgan Culture and the Indo-Europeanization of Europe: Selected articles from 1952 to 1993, by Marija Gimbutas, edited by Miriam Robbins Dexter and Karlene Jones-Bley, Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man, (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph #18), 1997

Varia on the Indo-European Past: Papers in Memory of Marija Gimbutas, edited by Miriam Robbins Dexter and Edgar C. Polomé, Washington, DC, The Institute for the Study of Man (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph #19), 1997

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES

Articles on Indo-European Female Figures for the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, J.P. Mallory and Douglas Q. Adams, eds. Garland Publishing, 1997

"Prehistoric Goddesses" In The Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion, New York: Macmillan, 1999

ARTICLES

"Queen Medb and the Sovereignty of Ireland." Patricia Monaghan (ed.), Goddesses in World Culture Series. 2010.

"Ancient Felines and the Great-Goddess in Anatolia: Kubaba and Cybele." Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2008, Stephanie Jamison, Craig Melchert, and Brent Vine, eds. Hempen Verlag, 2009. Invited paper first presented to the conference, "The Goddess and the Social Order." Istanbul, Turkey, June 27-27-30, 2006, as "The evolution of the Great Mother goddess of Anatolia: Kubaba/Cybele."

"The Ferocious and the Erotic: 'Beautiful' Medusa and the Neolithic Bird and Snake." Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Forthcoming (Spring, 2010).

"The Danube Script and the Old European Goddess: the Intersection of Language and Religion." Institute of Archaeomythology Conference on the Danube Script, Sibiu, Romania, May 2008. Forthcoming.

"L'Alba E Il Sole Nel Mito Indo-Europeo." ("Dawn and Sun in Indo-European Myth: Gender and Geography.") Translated by Mariagrazia Pelaia. Prometeo 26, 104 (December, 2008), 26-33.

"The Monstrous Goddess: The Degeneration of Ancient Bird and Snake Goddesses into Historic Age Witches and Monsters." From a lecture given at the New Bulgarian University. Published simultaneously in Bulgarian and English. Ivan Marazov, ed. Forthcoming.

"The Roots of Indo-European Patriarchy: Indo-European Female Figures and the Principles of Energy." In: The Rule of Mars, Cristina Biaggi (ed.) Manchester, Connecticut, Knowledge Ideas and Trends, 2006: 143-154.

"Apotropaia and Fecundity in Eurasian Myth and Iconography: Erotic Female Display Figures," Miriam Robbins Dexter and Victor H. Mair. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 2004, Karlene Jones-Bley, Angela della Volpe, Martin Huld, and Miriam Robbins Dexter, eds. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man. Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph No. 50, 2005: pages 97-121.

"Colchian Medea and her Circumpontic Sisters." ReVision, vol. 25 (1), summer, 2002, 3-14.

"The Sheela na gigs, Sexuality, and the Goddess in Ancient Ireland" Miriam Robbins Dexter and Starr Goode. Irish Journal of Feminist Studies 4 (2), Mary Condren, ed., 2002, 50-75.

"The Sheela-na-gigs: Tracing the Legacy of Prehistoric and Pre-Christian Goddesses in Medieval Irish Iconography," Miriam Robbins Dexter and Starr Goode. Presented at the International History of Religions Conference, Durban, South Africa, August 7-11, 2000.

"Sexuality, the Sheela na gigs, and the Goddess in Ancient Ireland." ReVision, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Summer 2000): 38-48 (Starr Goode and Miriam Robbins Dexter). Presented at the First International Conference of the Institute of Archaeomythology, "Deepening the Disciplines," July 13-18, 1998, Madouri, Greece.

"Dawn and Sun in Indo-European Myth: Gender and Geography" in Collectanea Philologia IV Ignatio Richardo Danka sexagenario oblata, odz, Poland: 103-122. Krzysztof Witczak and Piotr Stalmaszczyk, eds. odz University Press, 2000.

"Queen Medb, Female Autonomy in Ancient Ireland, and Matrilineal Traditions" in Proceedings of the Ninth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, 1997: 95-122. Karlene Jones-Bley, Angela della Volpe, Miriam Robbins Dexter, and Martin Huld, eds. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man Monograph No. 28, 1998.

"The Brown Bull of Cooley and Matriliny in Celtic Ireland" in From the Realm of the Ancestors: Essays in Honor of Marija Gimbutas: 218-236. Joan Marler, ed. Manchester, Connecticut: Knowledge Ideas and Trends, 1997

"Born of the Foam" in Studies in honor of Jaan Puhvel: 83-102. John Greppin and Edgar C. Polomé, eds., Part II: Mythology and Religion (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph # 21). Washington, DC, The Institute for the Study of Man, 1997.

"The Frightful Goddess: Birds, Snakes and Witches" in Varia on the Indo-European Past: Papers in Memory of Marija Gimbutas: 124-154. Miriam Robbins Dexter and Edgar C. Polomé, eds. (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph #19). Washington, DC, The Institute for the Study of Man, 1997

"Dawn Goddess" In Mallory, J.P. and Douglas Q. Adams, eds., The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, 148-149. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997

"Earth Goddess" In Mallory, J.P. and Douglas Q. Adams, eds., The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, 174. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.

"Fortune Goddesses" In Mallory, J.P. and Douglas Q. Adams, eds., The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, 212. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.

"Goddesses" In Mallory, J.P. and Douglas Q. Adams, eds., The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, 231-232. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.

"Horse Goddess" In Mallory, J.P. and Douglas Q. Adams, eds., The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, 279-281. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.

"River Goddess" In Mallory, J.P. and Douglas Q. Adams, eds., The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, 487. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997

"Sun Goddess" In Mallory, J.P. and Douglas Q. Adams, eds., The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, 556. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.

"Transfunctional Goddess" In Mallory, J.P. and Douglas Q. Adams, eds., The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, 595-596. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.

"Dawn-Maid and Sun-Maid: Celestial Goddesses among the Proto-Indo-Europeans" in The Indo-Europeanization of Northern Europe: 228-246. Karlene Jones-Bley and Martin E. Huld, eds. (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph #17). Washington, DC: The Institute for the Study of Man, 1996; presented at the International Conference, "The Indo-Europeanization of Northern Europe," Vilnius, Lithuania, September 1-7, 1994

"The Hippomorphic Goddess and Her Offspring" in Journal of Indo-European Studies 18 (3-4): 285-307 (Fall/Winter 1990); presented at the second multidisciplinary International Conference on the "Transformation of European and Anatolian Culture in Prehistory," Dublin, Ireland, September, 1989.

"Reflections on the Goddess *Donu" in Mankind Quarterly 30 (1-2): 45-58, (Fall/Winter 1990); presented at the first Indo-European Convivium, UCLA, "Indo-European and Universals", May, 1989.

"Indo-European Reflections of Virginity and Autonomy." Mankind Quarterly, 26 (1-2): 57-74 (Fall/Winter 1985); presented at the International Congress of Anthropology and Ethnography, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, August, 1983.

"Proto-Indo-European Sun Maidens and Gods of the Moon." Mankind Quarterly 25 (1-2): 137-144 (Fall/Winter 1984)..

"The Assimilation of Pre-Indo-European Female Figures into the Indo-European Pantheons." Journal of Indo-European Studies 8 (1-2): 19-29 (Spring/Summer 1980); presented at (the first) multidisciplinary International Conference, "The Transformation of European and Anatolian Culture, 4500-2500 B.C. and its Legacy", Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, September, 1979.

"Dionysos, a Poet of Syracuse." Translation from the Lithuanian, in Lietuvi Dienos Magazine, Vol. XX, No. 6: 18-19, 1969.

LANGUAGES READ: Latin, Greek (and Italic and Greek dialects, including Linear B), Sanskrit, Hittite; Tocharian; old Germanic dialects, including Old High German, Old Saxon, and Gothic; Old Irish; Old Iranian; Old Church Slavic.; Modern languages: French, Italian, Spanish, German, Lithuanian, some Russian, some Romanian. Near-Eastern languages (limited ability): Ugaritic; Akkadian/Babylonian/Assyrian; Sumerian; Egyptian; Hebrew.

EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Editorial board, Journal of Indo-European Studies: 1995-present

Executive Editor, Proceedings of the Institute of Archaeomythology (Sebastopol, California)

Editor, Proceedings of the UCLA Indo-European Conference 1998-2008

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

Institute of Archaeomythology, Board of Directors: Executive Editor

Friends of Indo-European Studies, UCLA - Treasurer

UCLA Center for the Study of Women: Research Scholar

American Mensa Limited