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Tiya Miles
Born
Tiya Alicia Miles

Cincinnati, Ohio
Alma materHarvard University, Emory University, University of Minnesota
AwardsMacArthur Fellow
Cundill Prize
Ralph Waldo Emerson Award[1]
Scientific career
FieldsHistory
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, Harvard University

Tiya Alicia Miles is an American historian. She is Michael Garvey Professor of History at Harvard University and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.[2] She is a public historian, academic historian, and creative writer whose work explores the intersections of African American, Native American and women's histories. Her research includes African American and Native American interrelated and comparative histories (especially 19th century); Black, Native, and U.S. women's histories; and African American and Native American women's literature.[3] She was a 2011 MacArthur Fellow.[4]

Life

Miles was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.[2] She graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. in 1992, from Emory University with an M.A. in 1995, and from the University of Minnesota with a Ph.D. in 2000. She was an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 2000 to 2002. She was a School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar from 2007 to 2008.[5]

Works

  • Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. University of California Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-520-24132-9.[6]
  • Tiya Alicia Miles; Sharon P. Holland, eds. (2006). Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-3865-9.
  • The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story. University of North Carolina Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-8078-3418-3.
  • "Why the Freedmen Fight". The New York Times. September 15, 2011.
  • Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era. University of North Carolina Press. 2015. ISBN 978-1-4696-2634-5.
  • The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits. The New Press (October 3, 2017). 2017. ISBN 978-1620972311.
  • All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. Random House. 2021. ISBN 9781984854995.[7][8]
  • Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation, 2023.[9]

Awards

References

  1. ^ "2022 Book Awards Winners".
  2. ^ a b "Tiya Miles". history.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  3. ^ "Tiya Miles - University of Michigan".
  4. ^ a b "Tiya Miles". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  5. ^ "The School for Advanced Research".
  6. ^ "Ties That Bind - Tiya Miles - Paperback - University of California Press". Archived from the original on 2014-07-01. Retrieved 2014-07-11.
  7. ^ "All That She Carried by Tiya Miles: 9781984854995". Penguin Random House. Retrieved October 14, 2021.
  8. ^ Grant, Colin (2023-07-12). "All That She Carried by Tiya Miles review – social fabric". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  9. ^ "Tiya Miles' new book 'Wild Girls' explores how the outdoors shaped the legacies of great women". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  10. ^ Culture, Dallas Institute for Humanities and (2022-03-16). "DALLAS INSTITUTE OF HUMANITIES AND CULTURE ANNOUNCES PRESTIGIOUS HIETT PRIZE 2022 FINALISTS REPRESENTING THE U.S.' RISING STARS IN HUMANITIES". GlobeNewswire News Room. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  11. ^ "Tiya Miles - University of Michigan".
  12. ^ "Rutgers, Harvard professors share 20th annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize". YaleNews. 2018-11-19. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
  13. ^ "National Book Awards 2021". National Book Foundation. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
  14. ^ "'All That She Carried' wins 2022 Cundill History Prize". Books+Publishing. 2022-12-02. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
  15. ^ "Yale Announces 2022 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners". glc.yale.edu. November 16, 2022. Retrieved December 16, 2022.

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