Dr Jordan Miller
College Research Associate, (Ph.D. 2022 University of Oxford) Research Associate, Faculty of Classics
Research interestsI approach ancient Egyptian religion and visual culture from anthropological perspectives, supported by concepts from archaeology and the history of art. My current project compares Egyptian and Maya hieroglyphs, aiming to develop a more robust framework for classifying the world’s writing systems by visual criteria. I focus on how sign forms, inventories, and the design of inscriptions relate to the ontology of images in different contexts. If some images are active beings in the world, with powers that depend on shape, materiality, and legibility, hieroglyphic writing is then a powerful resource for configuring relationships between humans, gods, and inscriptions themselves.
My work contributes to the VIEWS project (Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems) in the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge. I am also involved with research into the world history of rituals, as part of Seshat: Global History Databank. I received my degrees from the University of Oxford (BA, Egyptology with Akkadian; MSt, Egyptology and History of Art; DPhil, Egyptology).
My work contributes to the VIEWS project (Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems) in the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge. I am also involved with research into the world history of rituals, as part of Seshat: Global History Databank. I received my degrees from the University of Oxford (BA, Egyptology with Akkadian; MSt, Egyptology and History of Art; DPhil, Egyptology).