AGHI Annnual Macksey Lecture featuring Tiya Miles - "This Sack": Reconstructing Enslaved Women's Lives through Objects

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

Miles is the author of four scholarly monographs and a novel; her 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 currently serves as co-president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians; and, since 2011, has been the founder and director of ECO Girls, an organization dedicated to the environmental education and cultural enrichment of black girls in Southeast Michigan.

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