Assistant Professor of History of Art
Vanderbilt University

Mireille Lee (Occidental College, A.B.; Bryn Mawr, M.A., Ph.D.) teaches courses on the art and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean, including Egypt.  A specialist in Greek art and archaeology, she has a particular interest in the construction of gender in ancient visual and material culture.  Her first monograph, Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015.  Her current research focuses on the ancient Greek mirrors as social objects.  Her research has been supported by: the American Council of Learned Societies; the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art; the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, among others.

“Women’s Ways of Knowing: A Phenomenology of Mirrors in Ancient Greece”