Mary Ella Milham

Mary Ella Milham (22 March 1922 – 9 December 2010) was an American-Canadian Professor of Latin and Greek at the University of New Brunswick from 1954 until her retirement in 1987. She was the first female president of the Classical Association of Canada.

Career Milham received her BA in English and Latin from Carroll University and her MA and PhD in Classics and Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Milham was active in the Classical Association of Canada, including as chair of the Committee on the State of Classical Studies, which produced the 'Milham Report' on the state of Classics in Canada in 1976. She was president of the organisation 1984–86, the first woman to hold this position.

Awards and honours Milham was elected to the New York Academy of Sciences in 1986. She received the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Award in 1989.

Selected publications