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CATEGORIES:Lecture,Arts,Literary
DESCRIPTION:Tiya Miles is the author of eight books\, including four prize-
 winning histories about race and slavery in the American past. Her latest w
 ork is the biography Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a 
 Free People. Her 2021 National Book Award winner All That She Carried: The 
 Journey of Ashley’s Sack\, a Black Family Keepsake\, was a New York Times b
 estseller that won eleven historical and literary prizes\, including the Cu
 ndill History Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize. All That She Carried 
 was named a best book of the year by The New York Times\, The Washington Po
 st\, The Boston Globe\, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution\, NPR\, Publisher’
 s Weekly\, The Atlantic\, Time\, and more. Her other nonfiction works inclu
 de Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation\, 
 The Dawn of Detroit\, Tales from the Haunted South\, The House on Diamond H
 ill\, and Ties That Bind. Miles has published essays and reviews in The New
  York Times\, The Boston Globe\, The Atlantic\, The New York Review of Book
 s\, and other publications\, and she is the author of the time-bridge novel
  The Cherokee Rose\, a ghost story set in the plantation South. She has con
 sulted with colleagues at historic sites and museums on representations of 
 slavery\, African American material culture\, and the Black-Indigenous inte
 rtwined past\, including\, most recently\, the “Fabric of a Nation” quilt e
 xhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Her work has been supported
  by a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award\, the Mellon Foundation\, the Nat
 ional Endowment for the Humanities\, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Miles w
 as born and raised in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, and she is currently the Michael 
 Garvey Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard Univ
 ersity.\n\nCosponsored by Boston College History Department\, American Stud
 ies\, African and African Diaspora Studies\, Women’s Studies\, Environmenta
 l Studies\, the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life\, and th
 e Forum for Racial Justice in America.\n\nAll Lowell Humanities Series lect
 ures are free and open to the public. Registration via Eventbrite is requir
 ed for in-person attendance.\n\nThe Lowell Humanities Series is sponsored b
 y the Lowell Institute\, Boston College's Institute for the Liberal Arts\, 
 and the Provost's Office.
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SUMMARY:Tiya Miles: Eco-Consciousness in the Lives of Enslaved Black Women
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URL:https://events.bc.edu/event/tiya-miles-eco-consciousness-in-the-lives-o
 f-enslaved-black-women
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