EDUCATION
MFA, 2008, Pratt Institute
BFA, 2006, Tulane University 

AWARDS
Award for Academic Achievement, Pratt Institute, May 2008
Pratt Circle Award – Distinction, Pratt Institute, May 2007
The Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in painting and sculpture, 2007
The Class of 1914 Prize in Art, Newcomb College, Tulane University, spring 2006
Mary C.S. Neill Award for excellence in painting, Newcomb College, Tulane University, spring 2005
Distinguished Scholar Award, Tulane University, March 2002

EXHIBITIONS
2009 Summer Exhibition, Kravets Wehby Gallery, June 25, 2009 -July 31
        RoccoPop, DEAN Project and Crossing Art, February - March 
2008 - 2009 PoP: The Global Citizen, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, January-December
2008 Off-Topic, Hun Gallery, NYC, April.
        Pratt-VCU Exchange Show, Virginia Commonwealth University, March
2007 Changing Climates, Changing Colors, Abrams Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, NYC, January - March 

PUBLICATIONS
Tuplin, Christopher, ed. Persian Responses- Political and Cultural Interaction with(in) the Achaemednid Empire. Illustrations – p.181, 183, 188, 193, and jacket cover
ArtWorld Digest, Vol. 2, The Seed Issue, April 2007.
Root, Margaret C., "Elam in the Imperial Imagination: From Nineveh to Persepolis," in Elam and Persia, ed. J. Alvarez-Mon, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2006. Contributed nine illustrations.
Root, Margaret C., This Fertile Land: Signs and Symbols in the Early Arts of Iran and Iraq, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2005.
Abdi, Kamyar, "Notes on the Iranianization of Bes in the Archaemnenid Empire," in M.C. Root, ed., Medes and Persians: Reflections on Elusive Empires, Ars Orientalis 32, 2002, 133-207. Illustration - Figure 9 on page 141. 

REVIEWS
Lentini, Lara K, "Changing Climates, Changing Colors," Art Papers, July/August 2007, p.66.