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Tiya Miles

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.[1] 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.[2] She was a 2011 MacArthur Fellow.[3]

Tiya Miles
Born
Tiya Alicia Miles

Cincinnati, Ohio
Occupation(s)Historian, Professor
AwardsMacArthur Fellow, Cundill History Prize, Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
Academic background
Alma materHarvard University, Emory University, University of Minnesota
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, Harvard University
Websitehttps://tiyamiles.com/

Life

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Miles was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.[1][4] 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, and taught at the University of Michigan from 2002 to 2018.[5] She was a School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar from 2007 to 2008.[6]

Her 2021 book All That She Carried, which depicted the lives of American slaves in the south, specifically Rose and her daughter Ashley (Ashley's sack) was awarded the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction.[7]

Awards

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Works

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  • Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. University of California Press. 2005. ISBN 9780520241329.[15]
  • Miles, Tiya; Holland, Sharon P., eds. (2006). Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822338659.
  • The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story. University of North Carolina Press. 2010. ISBN 9780807834183.
  • "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 9781469626345.
  • The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits. The New Press. 2017. ISBN 9781620972311.
  • All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. Random House. 2021. ISBN 9781984854995.[16]
  • Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation. W. W. Norton. 2023. ISBN 9781324020875.[17]
  • Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People. Penguin Random House. 2024. ISBN 9780593491164.[18]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Tiya Miles". history.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
  2. ^ "Tiya Miles - University of Michigan".
  3. ^ a b "Tiya Miles". www.macfound.org. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Miles, Tiya 1970–". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved February 16, 2024.
  5. ^ "Biography". Tiya Miles. Retrieved February 16, 2024.
  6. ^ "The School for Advanced Research".
  7. ^ "All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake". National Book Foundation.
  8. ^ The Dallas Morning News [dead link‍]
  9. ^ "Tiya Miles - University of Michigan".
  10. ^ "Rutgers, Harvard professors share 20th annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize". YaleNews. November 19, 2018. Retrieved November 20, 2018.
  11. ^ "National Book Awards 2021". National Book Foundation. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
  12. ^ "'All That She Carried' wins 2022 Cundill History Prize". Books+Publishing. December 2, 2022. Retrieved December 2, 2022.
  13. ^ "Yale Announces 2022 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners". glc.yale.edu. November 16, 2022. Retrieved December 16, 2022.
  14. ^ Lipscomb, Suzannah (March 27, 2024). "Electric, poignant, exquisitely written: inside the inaugural Women's prize for nonfiction shortlist". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
  15. ^ "Ties That Bind - Tiya Miles - Paperback - University of California Press". Archived from the original on July 1, 2014. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
  16. ^ "All That She Carried by Tiya Miles: 9781984854995". Penguin Random House. Retrieved October 14, 2021.
  17. ^ "Wild Girls by Tiya Miles: 9781324020875". W. W. Norton. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
  18. ^ Szalai, Jennifer (June 26, 2024). "Who Was Harriet Tubman? A Historian Sifts the Clues". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 29, 2024.
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