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Tiya Miles
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 2000
Other U of M Affiliation:
American Culture, Afro-American & African Studies, Native American Studies
Contact Information:
University of Michigan
3664 Haven Hall
Phone:
734-936-4374
E-mail:
tiya@umich.edu
Office Hours:
On leave Winter 2009
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Field(s) of Study:
Intersectional and comparative African American and Native American history, especially 19th century; African American women's history; Native American women's history.
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Homepage:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~tiya/index.html |
Biography:
Tiya Miles is Associate Professor in the Program in American Culture, the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, the Native American Studies Program, and the Department of History at the University of Michigan. She is a graduate of Harvard University (A.B.), Emory University (M.A.), and the University of Minnesota (Ph.D.). As the Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellow at Dartmouth College, she co-organized, with Celia Naylor and Stephanie Morgan, the first national conference on African American and Native American interrelated histories and literatures. Her book, Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, was published by the University of California Press in 2005 and was awarded the Frederick Jackson Turner prize by the Organization of American Historians and the Lora Romero Distinguished First Book prize by the American Studies Association. In 2006 Miles and her undergraduate students completed a U-M Arts of Citizenship funded project: a public history booklet for the Chief Vann House State Historic Site in Murray County, Georgia, titled “African American History at the Chief Vann House.” In 2007, Miles was awarded the Hiett Prize in the Humanities from the Dallas Institute for Humanities and Culture. Miles is the co-editor, with Sharon P. Holland, of Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Duke University Press, 2006).
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Selected Publications:
Books
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005).
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, essay collection co-edited with Sharon P. Holland (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).
Editor, “African American History at the Chief Vann House,” a public history booklet donated to the Chief Vann House State Historic Site, Chatsworth, GA (2006).
Articles and Book Chapters
“The Narrative of Nancy, A Cherokee Woman,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies (forthcoming special issue: Intermarriage in Indigenous American History, spring 2008).
“Rethinking Race and Culture in the Early South,” Co-authored with Claudio Saunt, Barbara Krauthamer, Celia E. Naylor, Circe Sturm, Ethnohistory 53:2 (spring 2006).
“His Kingdom for a Kiss: Indians and Intimacy in the Narrative of John Marrant,” Haunted by Empire: Race and Colonial Intimacies in North American History, ed., Ann Laura Stoler (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).
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Current Projects:
A book in progress with the working title, All That Glitters: The Story of Diamond Hill, A Cherokee Plantation. Under contract with the Unniversity of North Carolina Press.
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