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Margaret Root, University of Michigan, History of Art, and the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology, Department Member. Studies Zoroastrianism, Achaemenid History, and Avestan (Languages And Linguistics).
Margaret Root may refer to: Margaret Cool Root, Professor of Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan. Margaret E. Root, married name of Margaret E.B. Simpson (1906–1944), Scottish archaeologist.
Margaret Cool Root's research focuses on issues of art, social history, and historiography particularly involving studies of iconography, style, and identity politics. Her specialist realms of analysis are the Achaemenid Persian empire and its complex interactions with ancient Greece.
Margaret Cool Root is Professor of Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan. She is an expert on the Achaemenid empire of ancient Persia and its interactions with Greece, and has published widely on Near Eastern material culture .
The Smithsonian Institution Medes and Persians: The State of Things Author(s): Margaret Cool Root Source: Ars Orientalis, Vol. 32, Medes and Persians: Reflections on Elusive Empires (2002), pp. 1-16 Published by: Freer Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian Institution and Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan Stable URL: https ...
Margaret Cool Root (PhD, Near Eastern and Classical Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College) is Curator Emerita of Greek and Near Eastern Collections at the Kelsey Museum, Professor Emerita of Near Eastern and Classical Art and Archaeology in the Department of the History of Art, and a core faculty member of the Interdepartmental Program in Classical ...
The publication of Margaret’s seminal book, The king and kingship in Achaemenid art: Essays on the creation of an iconography of empire (Leiden 1979), based upon her doctoral dissertation, in many ways built upon the foundation of her mentor.
