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An eminent scholar of early Christian history, Dr. Miller has authored a numerous books, including Biography in Late Antiquity: A Quest for the Holy (1983), Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture (1994)--now translated into several languages, The Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity: Essays on Imagination and Religion (2001), and most recently The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity (2009). In support of her acclaimed scholarship, she has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.