Jessica Millward

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Associate Professor, History
School of Humanities
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, United States History
Phone: History Department: (949) 824-6521
Email: millward@uci.edu
University of California, Irvine
Department of History
200 Murray Krieger Hall
Irvine, CA 92697
Websites
Publications
Finding Charity's Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015). http://amzn.com/0820348783
"Black Women's History and the Labor of Mourning," Souls, 18:1, (2016) 161-165.
Mumia: Hope and Vulnerability. thefeministwire.com. January 23, 2014. http://thefeministwire.com/2014/01/mumia-vulnerability-and-hope/
On Agency, Freedom and the Boundaries of Slavery Studies. Labour/Le Travail, 71(Spring 2013), 193-202.
Charity Folks, Loss Royalty and the Bishop Family of Maryland and New York. Journal of African American History, 98(1 (Winter 2013), 24-47.
That All Her Increase Shall Be Free': Enslaved Women's Bodies and the Maryland 1809 Law of Manumission. Women's History Review, 21(3) June 2012, 363-378.
The Relics of Slavery’: Inter-racial Sex and Manumission in the American South. Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, 31(3), 22-30
Teaching African American History in the Age of Obama. Chronicle of Higher Education, February 27, 2009, 55(25), B20 .
More History Than Myth: African American Women's History since the Publication of Ar'n't I a Woman". Journal of Women's History, vol. 19(No. 2), 161-167.
Reviews:

» Review Essay, Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008) in The Journal of American History, June 2009, Vol. 96 Issue 1, 233.

» Making Slavery: Making Race: The Experiences of Slave Women in the New World, Review Essay for H-Atlantic, Jennifer L. Morgan, Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in New World Slavery. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004 (July 2005).

» Review Essay, Gad Heuman and James Walvin, Editors The Slavery Reader (New York: Routledge, 2003), in The Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Vol. 1 (Spring 2005).
Encyclopedia Entries:

» “Manumission,” in Daina Ramey Berry, Ed., The Female Slave: An Encyclopedia of Daily Life During Slavery in the United States, (Greenwood, Ct: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2012): 187-190.

» “Colonial America,” in Darlene Clark Hine, Editor. Black Women in America Encyclopedia, 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005: pp. 286–291.

» “Tituba,” in Darlene Clark Hine, Editor. Black Women in America Encyclopedia, 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005: pp. 248–250.
Grants
Humanities Research Travel Grant, University of California, Irvine, 2009; International Center for Writing and Translation, University of California, Irvine, 2009; Association of American University Women Post Doctoral Fellowship, 2006-2007; Lord Baltimore Fellowship, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD, 2004–2006; Nathan Huggins/Benjamin Quarles Dissertation Research Award, Organization of American Historians, 2003.
Professional Societies
American Historical Association
Association for the Study of the World Wide African Diaspora
Organization of American Historians
Association of Black Women Historians
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Southern Association of Women Historians
Maryland Historical Society
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Other Experience
Founding Faculty, UCI Collaborative Conversations on the Continent
Ghana Project 2010
Farwesten Regional Director
Association of Black Women Historians 2014
Research Centers
African American Studies, the Culture and Theory Program, the Department of Women’s Studies, the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, Center for Comparative Immigration at UC San Diego
Last updated
01/16/2021