Tiya Miles Explained

Tiya Miles
Occupation:Historian, Professor
Alma Mater:Harvard University, Emory University, University of Minnesota
Discipline:History
Workplaces:University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, Harvard University
Birth Name:Tiya Alicia Miles
Birth Place:Cincinnati, Ohio
Website:https://tiyamiles.com/
Awards:MacArthur Fellow, Cundill History Prize, Ralph Waldo Emerson Award

Tiya Alicia Miles is an American historian. She is Michael Garvey Professor of History at Harvard University and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.[1] She is a public historian, academic historian, and creative writer whose work explores the intersections of African 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 2011 MacArthur Fellow.[3]

Life

Miles was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.[4] She graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. in 1992, from Emory University with an M.A. in 1995, and from the University of Minnesota with a Ph.D. in 2000. She was an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 2000 to 2002, and taught at the University of Michigan from 2002 to 2018.[5] She was a School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar from 2007 to 2008.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tiya Miles . 2023-03-26 . history.fas.harvard.edu . en.
  2. Web site: Tiya Miles - University of Michigan.
  3. Web site: Tiya Miles . 2023-03-26 . www.macfound.org . en.
  4. Web site: Miles, Tiya 1970–. Encyclopedia.com. February 16, 2024.
  5. Web site: Biography. Tiya Miles. February 16, 2024.
  6. Web site: The School for Advanced Research.
  7. Web site: Ties That Bind - Tiya Miles - Paperback - University of California Press . 2014-07-11 . 2014-07-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140701043134/http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520250024 . dead .
  8. News: All That She Carried by Tiya Miles: 9781984854995 . October 14, 2021 . Penguin Random House.
  9. News: Wild Girls by Tiya Miles: 9781324020875 . March 24, 2024 . W. W. Norton.
  10. News: Szalai . Jennifer . 2024-06-26 . Who Was Harriet Tubman? A Historian Sifts the Clues. . 2024-06-29 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
  11. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/DN-mcwilliams_26edi.108ea41c5.html The Dallas Morning News
  12. Web site: Tiya Miles - University of Michigan.
  13. News: Rutgers, Harvard professors share 20th annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize. 2018-11-19. YaleNews. 2018-11-20. en.
  14. Web site: National Book Awards 2021 . November 17, 2021 . National Book Foundation.
  15. Web site: 2022-12-02 . 'All That She Carried' wins 2022 Cundill History Prize . 2022-12-02 . Books+Publishing . en-AU.
  16. News: Yale Announces 2022 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners. November 16, 2022. glc.yale.edu. December 16, 2022. en.
  17. News: Lipscomb . Suzannah . 2024-03-27 . Electric, poignant, exquisitely written: inside the inaugural Women’s prize for nonfiction shortlist . 2024-03-28 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.