Rate My Professor Miriam Byrd

Byrd's research specializes in ancient philosophy, with a focus on Plato's dialogues, including the Republic, Phaedo, and Meno. Her publications include "Mathematics, Mental Imagery, and Ontology: A New Interpretation of the Divided Line" in The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition (2018), "Dianoetic Education in Plato’s Republic" in Mediterranean Studies (2019), "The Summoner Approach: A New Method of Plato Interpretation" in Journal of the History of Philosophy (2007), "Dialectic and Plato’s Method of Hypothesis" in Apeiron (2007), and "Hypotheses and Mathematical Intermediates in the Republic" in Ancient Philosophy (2025). She co-authored "Standing in the Vestibule: Proclus on Intermediates" with Jeremy Byrd and contributed "Socrates’ Failures and their Implications for Moral Psychology in the Early Dialogues" to Knowing and Being in Ancient Philosophy (2022). Byrd has delivered numerous presentations at international conferences, such as the Mediterranean Studies Association, International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, and International Plato Society. Her honors include a Research Enhancement Program Grant from the University of Texas at Arlington in summer 2008 and the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award from the University of Georgia in 2000-2001.