Patricia Cox Miller
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Patricia Cox Miller is an American religion academic. She is the (Bishop) W. Earl Ledden Professor Emerita of Religion at Syracuse University. She researches religious imagination in late antiquity, religion and aesthetics in late antiquity, early Christian asceticism, women and religion in late antiquity, early Christian and pagan hagiography and ancient art.
Miller completed her BA in history at Mary Washington College of University of Virginia in 1969. She then did a year of Special Study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel from 1969 to 1970. Following this she completed an MA in the History of Christianity at the University of Chicago in 1972 and her Ph.D., also at the University of Chicago, on Religion in Late Antiquity in 1979.