Tiya Miles | |
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| Born | Tiya Alicia Miles |
| Occupations | Historian,Professor |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellow,Cundill History Prize,Ralph Waldo Emerson Award |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University,Emory University,University of Minnesota |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley,University of Michigan,Harvard University |
| Website | https://tiyamiles.com/ |
Tiya Alicia Miles is an Americanhistorian. She is Michael Garvey Professor of History atHarvard University and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at theRadcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.[1] She is a public historian, academic historian, and creative writer whose work explores the intersections ofAfrican 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 2011MacArthur Fellow.[3]
Miles was born and raised inCincinnati, Ohio.[1][4] She graduated fromHarvard University with an A.B. in 1992, fromEmory University with an M.A. in 1995, and from theUniversity of Minnesota with a Ph.D. in 2000. She was an assistant professor at theUniversity of California, Berkeley from 2000 to 2002, and taught at theUniversity of Michigan from 2002 to 2018.[5] She was a School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar from 2007 to 2008.[6]
Her 2021 bookAll 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 2021National Book Award for Nonfiction.[7]
