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Tiya Miles

American historian

Summary

American historian

FieldValue
nameTiya Miles
occupationHistorian, Professor
alma_materHarvard University, Emory University, University of Minnesota
disciplineHistory
workplacesUniversity of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, Harvard University
birth_nameTiya Alicia Miles
birth_placeCincinnati, Ohio
websitehttps://tiyamiles.com/
awardsMacArthur Fellow, Cundill History Prize, Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
imageTiya Miles 1018521.jpg

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. 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. She was a 2011 MacArthur Fellow.

Life

Miles was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. 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. She was a School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar from 2007 to 2008.

Her 2021 book All 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 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

Awards

  • 2007: Hiett Prize
  • 2006: Frederick Jackson Turner Award
  • 2006: Lora Romero Distinguished First Book Award
  • 2011: MacArthur Fellowship
  • 2018: joint winner, Frederick Douglass Book Prize for The Dawn of Detroit
  • 2021: National Book Award for Nonfiction for All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
  • 2022: Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
  • 2022: Cundill History Prize for All That She Carried
  • 2022: joint winner, Frederick Douglass Book Prize for All That She Carried
  • 2024: shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction for All That She Carried

Works

References

References

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  6. "The School for Advanced Research".
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  8. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090726031930/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/DN-mcwilliams_26edi.108ea41c5.html The Dallas Morning News]
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  10. "Tiya Miles - University of Michigan".
  11. (2018-11-19). "Rutgers, Harvard professors share 20th annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize". YaleNews.
  12. "National Book Awards 2021".
  13. (2022-12-02). "'All That She Carried' wins 2022 Cundill History Prize".
  14. (November 16, 2022). "Yale Announces 2022 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners".
  15. Lipscomb, Suzannah. (2024-03-27). "Electric, poignant, exquisitely written: inside the inaugural Women's prize for nonfiction shortlist". The Guardian.
  16. "Ties That Bind - Tiya Miles - Paperback - University of California Press".
  17. "All That She Carried by Tiya Miles: 9781984854995". [[Penguin Random House]].
  18. "Wild Girls by Tiya Miles: 9781324020875". [[W. W. Norton]].
  19. Szalai, Jennifer. (2024-06-26). "Who Was Harriet Tubman? A Historian Sifts the Clues.". The New York Times.
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