Margaret Cool Root

Margaret Cool Root was educated at Bryn Mawr College, where she gained both her BA and PhD.^[1] She joined the faculty at the University of Michigan's Department of the History of Art in 1978, where she is also a curator at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.^[1]

Her first major publication on the Achaemenid empire was the 1979 volume The King and Kingship in Achaemenid Art: Essays on the Creation of an Iconography of Empire (Acta Iranica 9);^[2] this was a revised and expanded version of her doctoral thesis.^[3]

In 1985, she was awarded a Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.^[4] She has also received support for her work from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Iran Heritage Foundation.^[2]

She was part of the editorial committee for the Ars Orientalis Volume 42.^[5]

• 1979. The King and Kingship in Achaemenid Art: Essays on the Creation of an Iconography of Empire. Acta Iranica 9. Leiden: Brill.
• 1994 (ed., with Amelie Kuhrt and Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg).The Persian Empire: Continuity and Change (Achaemenid History 8). Leiden: Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten.
• 2001 (ed., with M. B. Garrison). Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets. Volume I: Images of Heroic Encounter. Chicago: Oriental Institute Publications 117.
• 2002 (ed.). Medes and Persians. Reflections on Elusive Empires. Ars Orientalis 32.
• 2005. This Fertile Land: Signs and Symbols in the Early Arts of Iran and Iraq. Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.