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. She was a School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar from 2007 to 2008.
Works
Awards
2007 Hiett Prize
2006 Frederick Jackson Turner Award
2006 Lora Romero Distinguished First Book Award
2011 MacArthur Fellowship
2018 joint winner, Frederick Douglass 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 Prize for All That She Carried 2022 joint winner, Frederick Douglass Prize for All That She Carried
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Congratulations to Tiya Miles, 2011 MacArthur Fellow
21st-century American historians
MacArthur Fellows
Living people
University of Michigan faculty
Harvard University alumni
Harvard University faculty
Harvard University Department of History faculty
American women historians
Emory University alumni
University of Minnesota alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women National Book Award winners