Tiya Miles

Tiya Miles is the author of five books, including three prize-winning works in the history of American slavery: Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story, and The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits. Miles has translated her research into historical fiction, recounted her travels to "haunted" historic sites of the South in a published lecture series, and written widely on history and memory, Black culture, women’s history, and Black and Indigenous interrelated experience. Her current project, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake, is forthcoming from Random House. A past MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award” and National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars Award recipient, Miles is currently a Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard University.