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  Tiya Miles
Associate Professor, and Director, Native American Studies (NAS)

U of M Affiliation(s)
Program in American Culture
Native American Studies (NAS)
African American Studies

Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (CAAS)
Department of History


Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 2000


Contact Information:
505 S. State Street, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045
3664 Haven Hall
Phone: 734.936.4374
Fax: 734.936.1967
Email: tiya@umich.edu

Fields of Study: African-American and Native-American interrelated and comparative histories, especially 19th-century; African-American women’s history and literature; women of color history, literature, and feminist thought.

About Tiya Miles:

CAAS Website



Personal Website
http://www.umich.edu/~tiya

Department of History Website
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/facstaff/facultydetail.asp?ID=270

Publications:

Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (Berkeley: University of California Press, Spring 2005).

“Africans and Native Americans,” co-authored with Barbara Krauthamer, Blackwell Companion to African-American History, volume ed., Alton Hornsby Jr., (Forthcoming, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing).

“His Kingdom for a Kiss: Indians and Intimacy in the Narrative of John Marrant,” Tense and Tender Ties: Race and Empire in North American History, ed., Ann Laura Stoler (Forthcoming, Durham: Duke University Press).

“African-Americans in Southeastern Indian Societies," co-authored with Celia Naylor-Ojurongbe, Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 14 Southeast, ed., Raymond Fogelson (Forthcoming, Washington D.C.: Smithsonian).





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