Milette Gaifman
Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Classics and History of Art · Yale University · Yale University
Quick answer: Milette Gaifman is Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Classics and History of Art at Yale University. Milette Gaifman shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.
⭐ Professor Gaifman advises graduate students interested in exploring any aspect of art, architecture, and material culture in Greek antiquity; Greek and Greco-Roman religious art; intercultural exchanges in the ancient world; the reception of ancient art in post-antique periods; art and religion; and the historiography of the fields of Greek art and archaeology and the history of art.
Research interests
ancient art and archaeology, with a focus on Greek art architecture of the Archaic and Classical periods. Her research interests include the interaction between visual culture and religion, the variety of forms in the arts of antiquity (from the naturalistic to the non-figural), the interactive traits of various artistic media, and the reception of Greek art in later periods. In addition, her scholarship explores the historiography of the academic disciplines of art history and archaeology.
Selected publications (since 2023)
[2025] Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art, Yale Classical Studies 40, co-edited with Nathioniel B. Jones and Jas’ Elsner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025).
[2024] "Aniconism" in: The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Oxford University Press, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.913
[2024] "What Do attributes Say About Apollo?" in: What’s in a Divine Name? Religious Systems and Human Agency in the ancient Mediterranean. Alaya Palamidis and Corinne Bonnet eds., (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024), 249-269.
[2023] "The Flattened Greek Vase" in: Drawing the Greek Vase, eds. Caspar Mayer and Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), 112-139.
[2023] "The Incense Burner in Greek Art of the Fifth Century BCE" in: Holy Smoke: Censers
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Is Milette Gaifman hiring PhD students at Yale University?
Yes. As of 2026-09-11, Milette Gaifman's faculty page shows a PhD hiring signal: Professor Gaifman advises graduate students interested in exploring any aspect of art, architecture, and material culture in Greek antiquity; Greek and Greco-Roman religious art; intercultural exchang.
What does Milette Gaifman research?
ancient art and archaeology, with a focus on Greek art architecture of the Archaic and Classical periods. Her research interests include the interaction between visual culture and religion, the variety of forms in the arts of antiquity (from the naturalistic to the non-figural), the interactive trai
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