Tiya Miles is the author of three prize-winning works in the history of American race relations: 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 n the City of the Straits. She also has written historical fiction — The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts (a Lambda Literary Award Finalist) — and published various articles and op-eds in The New York Times, CNN.com, and The Huffington Post. She is a past MacArthur Foundation Fellow and Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow and a current National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars Award recipient. She taught on the faculty of the University of Michigan for 16 years and is currently a professor of history and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard University.
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