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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]
Tiya Miles | |
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Born | Tiya Alicia Miles |
Occupation(s) | 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/ |
Miles was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.[1][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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