The following list details all of Heather M.-L. Miller's current and past graduate students as of 2025. All received degrees in Anthropology from the tri-campus Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, unless otherwise noted.
Current PhD Students
Alannagh Maciw, co-supervised with Prof. Edward Swenson
Past PhD Students
2018 - 2025 Dr. Rachele Andrea Bianchi co-supervised with Prof. Liye Xie
Morphological Style, Technological Style of Alloying, and Cultural Interaction: Insights from Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Copper and Bronze Objects from Central Asia and west-central North China.
Connaught International Scholarship for Doctoral Students, Univ. of Toronto, 2018 - 2022
2014 - 2020 Dr. Andrew Harris, co-supervised with Prof. Edward Swenson
Early Theravāda Place-Making in the Shadow of Mount Meru: Negotiating the Architecture, Space and Landscape of “Buddhist Terraces”/Prah Vihār at Angkor Thom, Cambodia c. 13th – 16th Centuries.
2013 - 2019 Dr. Kalyan Sekhar Chakraborty
Subsistence based economy and the regional interaction processes of the Indus Civilization borderland of Kachchh, Gujarat: A bio-molecular perspective.
2010 - 2018 Dr. Candis L. Haak
Corporeal Experience and the Material World of the Vijayanagara Sacred Landscape: 600-1325 CE.
2009 - 2017 Dr. Susan Jean Beckwith, co-supervised with Prof. Ted Banning
The Built Environment: Spatial and Social Interaction at Pot Creek Pueblo, New Mexico
2005 - 2017 Dr. Matthew Scott Mosher
The Architecture of Mohenjo-daro as Evidence for the Organization of Indus Civilization Urban Neighbourhoods.
Social Science & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Scholarship, 2006 - 2009
2005 - 2015 Dr. Gregory Vincent Braun
Ritual, Materiality, and Memory in an Iroquoian Village
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2007 - 2008
2004 - 2011 Dr. Jennifer L. Campbell
Architecture and Identity: The Occupation, Use, and Reuse of Mughal Caravanserais.
Social Science & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Scholarship, 2004 - 2007
2003 - 2009 Dr. Michael W. Gregg
Organic Residue Analysis and the Earliest Uses of Pottery in the Ancient Middle East.
Social Science & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Scholarship, 2005 - 2007
Social Science & Humanities Research Council Post-Doctoral Scholarship, 2009 - 11
Past Visiting International Graduate Students (PhD)
2016 - 2018 Shuang Wu
Early Celedon Production and Distribution in the 2nd-6th centuries AD/CE and the Yue Kilns of Zhejiang, China
Two-year Chinese Scholarship Committee fellowship
Past Masters Students
2023 - 24 Nattha Chuenwattana, co-supervised with Prof. Gary Crawford
MA: Morphological Changes in Rice Awns Due to Traditional Crop-Processing: An Experimental Archaeological Approach to Craft Production Process
2020 - 21 Stéphanie Frenette
MA: Ways of Investigating the Provisioning and Internal Fish Trade of the Indus Valley: The Past Informs the Present
2020 - 21 Alannagh Maciw, co-supervised with Prof. Edward Swenson
MA: Ancient Andean Feasting: a Comparison of the Symbolic Power of the Chicha Serving Vessels of the Moche and Inka
2014 - 15 Erika Johannsen, co-supervised with Prof. David Smith
MA: Experimental Study of Firing Methods by Iroquoian Potters at the Keffer Site, Ontario
2012 - 2013 Steffan Gordan
MA: Building with Earth in Shang China: An Exploratory Investigation of the Production and Organization of Mudbrick & Wattle-and-Daub Construction
2010 - 2012 Jessica Thiele
MSc: Draft and Architecture: the role of architecture in the production of draft in ancient metal working
2007 - 2008 Amanda Pollock
MA: Burial Practices of the Indus Valley Tradition, from the Neolithic to the Integration Era