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Elsa Barkley Brown Collegiate Professor of African American Women's History Chair, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

• Affiliation(s)

  • Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS)
  • Department of American Culture (AC), Native American Studies (NAS)
  • Faculty: Department of History
  • Faculty: Department of 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, and U.S. women's history

• About

  Scholarly Interests: 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

  Tiya Miles research and creative interests include 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. She is the founder of ECO Girls, an environmental and cultural organization for girls in urban Southeast Michigan and is the chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.
  
  Professor Miles was awarded a 2011 MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship for her work on African American and Native American history! 
  

• Education

  • Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2000