Margaret Mills
Professor
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
131 Mershon Center
614.292.2199
mills.186@osu.edu
Education
B.A., Radcliffe College, Harvard University, General Studies (1968)
Ph.D., Harvard University, Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Languages and Culture, with Cultural Anthropology (1978)
Teaching/Research
Dr. Mills specializes in the popular culture of the Persian-speaking world. She has also conducted research in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan on a variety of topics, including education and culture.
Selected Publications
"Oral and Popular Literature: Darí Persian of Afghanistan," in Oral and Popular Literature in Iranian Languages, ed. by Philip Kreyenbroek (2008)
"South Asian Tales," in Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folk and Fairy Tales, ed. by Donald Haase (Greenwood Press, 2008)
"Arts: Storytellers and Raconteurs: Afghanistan," in Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Countries, ed.by Suad Joseph and Afsaneh Najmabadi (MacMillian, 2007)
"On the Problem of Truth in Ethnographic Texts and Entextualization Processes," in Research Ethics in Studies of Culture and Social Life, ed. Bente Gullveig Alver, Tove Ingebjørg Fjell and Ørjar Øyen (Finnish Academy of Sciences, 2007)
"Courtship: Afghanistan," in Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (Brill, 2007)
"Alf Laylah in Performance: Afghanistan," in The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective, ed. by U. Marzolph (Wayne State University Press, 2007)
"Afghan Women Leaders Speak: an Activist Academic Conference," with Sally Kitch (National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 2006)
"Three Revolutions and an Afterward," in Revolution and Pedagogy: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives on Educational Foundations, ed. by E. Thomas Ewing (Palgrave, 2005)
South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia, edited with Peter Claus and Sarah Diamond (Routledge, 2003)
Conversations with Davlat Khalav: Oral Narratives from Tajikistan, with Ravshan Rahmoni. (Humanitary Press, 2000)
Rhetorics and Politics in Afghan Traditional Storytelling (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991)
Gender, Genre and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions, ed. with Arjun Appadurai and Frank J. Korom (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991)
Oral Narrative in Afghanistan: The Individual in Tradition (Garland Publishers Harvard Folklore Dissertation Series, 1990)
Honors and Awards
U.S. Dept of State Title VIII Fellowship for Ethnolinguistic Field Study of Everyday Ethical and Political Speech in Post-Soviet Tajikistan (2005)
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1993-94)
Chicago Folklore Prize for Best Academic Book in Folklore for Rhetorics and Politics in Afghan Traditional Storytelling (1993)
Mershon Projects
Afghan Women Leaders Speak Conference, with Sally Kitch (2005)
Revolution and Pedagogy (2002)
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