Margaret Ruth Miles is an American theologian and historian who was president of the American Academy of Religion in 1999 and dean of the Graduate Theological Union from 1996 to 2001. A 1982 Guggenheim Fellow, she has written and edited dozens of books, including Augustine on the Body (1979), Image as Insight (1985), Immaculate and Powerful (1985), Shaping New Vision: Gender and Values in American Culture (1987), Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies (1997), Plotinus on Body and Beauty (1999), Carnal Knowing (2006), Desire and Delight (2006), and A Complex Delight (2008).