add contact to address book

Chair and Professor, DAAS, The Program in American Culture and the Department of History

• Affiliation(s)

  • Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS)
  • Department of American Culture (AC)
  • Native American Studies (NAS)
  • History
  • Women's Studies

• Fields of Study

  • African-American and Native-American interrelated and comparative histories, especially 19th-century African-American women's history and literature Native American women's history and literature U.S. women's history

• About

  Professor Miles is the current Chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and a past Director of AC Native American Studies

  Professor Miles was awarded a 2011 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for her work on African American and Native American history! View the MacArthur Foundation announcement, or read the coverage by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, AnnArbor.com, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the University Record, and the Michigan Daily. Also listen to the NPR All Things Considered announcement of the grant winners, and read the blog entry about Professor Miles by Professor Emerita Kathy Jones of San Diego State University.

• Education

  • Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2000