Alexander Grass Humanities Institute 2020 Macksey Lecture: Tiya A. Miles

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Tiya A. Miles, a professor of history at Harvard University and the Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will give the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute's 2020 Macksey Lecture entitled "'This Sack': Reconstructing Enslaved Women's Lives Through Objects."

Tiya Miles' work explores the meeting place of public memory, urban history, African American, and American Indian history between the 18th and 21st centuries. A fierce advocate for telling powerful and complex stories, Miles has received countless awards for her published and civic work in humane letters, including a MacArthur Genius Grant (2011) and the Heitt Prize in the Humanities (2007). She is the author of four scholarly monographs and a novel. She currently serves as co-president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and, since 2011, has been founder and director of ECO Girls, an organization dedicated to the environmental education and cultural enrichment of black girls in Southeast Michigan.

Reception to follow in the ABC Rooms at the Johns Hopkins Club.