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Dr. Jessica Millward is an American historian who focuses on African American History, Early America, African Diaspora, Slavery, and Gender.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5569|title=UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System|website=www.faculty.uci.edu|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref> Dr. Millward’s work uncovers the female slave experience by emphasizing narratives of black women during slavery.   
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| birth_date = June 17
| birth_place = American Fork, Utah
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| education = University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D
| occupation = Author, historian
| employer = University of California, Irvine
| website = jessicamillward.com
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'''Jessica Millward''' is an American historian who focuses on [[African-American history|African American history]], [[Colonial history of the United States|early America]], [[African diaspora]], [[slavery]], and [[gender]]. Her work focuses on the female slave experience by emphasizing narratives of black women during slavery.
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== Early Life ==
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Jessica Millward was born on June 17 in the small town of American Fork, Utah. Along with three other siblings, Millward was raised in [[West Valley City, Utah|West Valley City]], near Salt Lake City, in a Mormon household.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thefeministwire.com/2014/01/mumia-vulnerability-and-hope/|title=Mumia: Vulnerability and Hope - The Feminist Wire|date=2014-01-23|website=The Feminist Wire|language=en-US|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref> As a child, Dr. Millward’s hobbies included water skiing, cheerleading, dancing, and engaging in many other extra curricular activities.


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== Early life ==
Dr. Millward attended elementary through high school in West Valley City, Utah. During her graduation from Hunter High School in Utah, Dr. Millward had the honor of being a speaker during her graduation ceremony.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/166281/GRADUATION--HUNTER.html?pg=all|title=GRADUATION: HUNTER|date=1991-06-07|website=DeseretNews.com|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref>
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Jessica Millward was born in [[American Fork, Utah]]. She was raised in [[West Valley City, Utah|West Valley City]], near [[Salt Lake City]], in a [[Mormons|Mormon]] household.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thefeministwire.com/2014/01/mumia-vulnerability-and-hope/|title=Mumia: Vulnerability and Hope - The Feminist Wire|date=2014-01-23|website=The Feminist Wire|language=en-US|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/166281/GRADUATION--HUNTER.html?pg=all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604095529/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/166281/GRADUATION--HUNTER.html?pg=all|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 4, 2016|title=GRADUATION: HUNTER|date=1991-06-07|website=DeseretNews.com|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref>

Dr. Millward found interest in learning history, reading biographies and autobiographies, and going above and beyond with her schoolwork. In Hunter High School’s time capsule, there is a school history written by Dr. Millward.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/166281/GRADUATION--HUNTER.html?pg=all|title=GRADUATION: HUNTER|date=1991-06-07|website=DeseretNews.com|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref>

Education and Career


== Education ==
== Education ==
At the [[University of Utah]], Dr. Millward majored in history and minored in African American studies to earn her bachelor’s degree. A four-year scholarship was awarded to Dr. Millward to teach in secondary school in high school in Utah. However, Dr. Millward decided to attend the [[University of California, Los Angeles]], where she received her master’s degree in African American Studies and where she earned her Ph.D. Dr. Millward was the first person on either side of her family to attend college and earn her Ph.D. <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://continuum.utah.edu/back_issues/winter03/tty.htm|title=Continuum - - Winter 2003|website=continuum.utah.edu|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref>
At the [[University of Utah]], Millward majored in history and minored in African American studies to earn her bachelor's degree. After completing her bachelor's degree, a four-year scholarship was awarded to Millward to teach in secondary school in [[Utah]]. However, Millward decided to attend the [[University of California, Los Angeles]], where she received her master's degree in African American studies and where she earned her doctorate. Millward was the first person on either side of her family to attend college and earn her Ph.D.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://continuum.utah.edu/back_issues/winter03/tty.htm|title=Continuum - - Winter 2003|website=continuum.utah.edu|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref>


[[Maya Angelou]]’s book, [[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings|<u>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings</u>]], first sparked Dr. Millward’s interest to study African American history. Once in her master’s program, a mac by Dr. Brenda Stevenson intrigued Dr. Millward and encouraged her to study the slave experience. Dr. Brenda Stevenson is an advisor to Dr. Millward. <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.history.ucla.edu/faculty/brenda-stevenson|title=UCLA History|website=www.history.ucla.edu|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref>Newly learned knowledge from interacting with Dr. Stevenson’s research became the foundation to her book, Finding Charity’s Folk.
[[Maya Angelou]]'s book, ''[[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]]'', first sparked Millward's interest in studying African American history. Once in her master's program, Brenda Stevenson became an advisor to Millward. Stevenson's research intrigued Millward and encouraged her to study the slave experience.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.history.ucla.edu/faculty/brenda-stevenson|title=UCLA History|website=www.history.ucla.edu|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref> Newly learned knowledge from personal accounts and interacting with Stevenson's research became the foundation to Millward's book, ''Finding Charity's Folk''.


== Career ==
== Career ==
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''University of California, Irvine''


Dr. Millward is an assistant professor in the history department in the school of humanities at the [[University of California, Irvine]]. Before teaching at the University of California, Irvine, Dr. Millward taught African American history to a diverse student body at Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/1522018/Teaching_African_American_History_in_the_Age_of_Obama.|title=Teaching African American History in the Age of Obama|website=www.academia.edu|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref>
Millward is an associate professor in the history department in the [[University of California, Irvine School of Humanities|School of Humanities]] at the [[University of California, Irvine]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System|url=https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5569|access-date=2021-03-01|website=www.faculty.uci.edu}}</ref> Before teaching at the University of California, Irvine, she taught African American history at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/1522018|title=Teaching African American History in the Age of Obama|website=www.academia.edu|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref>


While at UCI, Dr. Millward became a founder of the UCI Ghana Project.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5569.|title=UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System|website=www.faculty.uci.edu|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref> The Ghana Project is a three-week exchange program for students, faculty, and staff, for UCI and the University of Ghana, Legon.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5569|title=UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System|website=www.faculty.uci.edu|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref>
While at the University of California, Irvine, Millward founded the UCI Ghana Project, a research exchange program between the University of California, Irvine and the [[University of Ghana]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5569.|title=UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System|website=www.faculty.uci.edu|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref>


Dr. Millward is involved with many professional societies such as the 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, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5569|title=UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System|website=www.faculty.uci.edu|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref>
Millward is involved with professional societies such as the [[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]], and [[Delta Sigma Theta]].<ref name=":0" />


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=== Awards and honors ===
Dr. Millward serves as the Farwestern regional Director for the [[Association of Black Women Historians]]. Dr. Millward is involved in many professional organizations but also is an advocate for survivors of domestic violence and an educator for Mumia.


Some of Millward's honors include:<ref name=":0" />
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=== '''Awards and Honors''' ===
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* Association of American University Women Post Doctoral Fellowship, 2006–2007
In addition to being involved in professional societies, Dr. Millward has also received many honors throughout her career. Some of Dr. Millward’s honors include:
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* Lord Baltimore Fellowship, [[Maryland Historical Society]], Baltimore, MD, 2004–2006
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* Association of American University Women Post Doctoral Fellowship, 2006-2007
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* Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, African-American Studies and Research
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* Lord Baltimore Fellowship, [[Maryland Historical Society|Maryland Historical Society,]] Baltimore, MD, 2004–2006
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* Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, African-American Studies and Research
* Program, [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign|University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign]], 2003–2004
* Program, [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign|University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign]], 2003–2004
* Nathan Huggins/Benjamin Quarles Dissertation Research Award, Organization of American Historians, 2003
* Nathan Huggins/Benjamin Quarles Dissertation Research Award, Organization of American Historians, 2003
* Research Fellow, David Library of the American Revolution, Washington
* Research Fellow, David Library of the American Revolution, Washington
* Crossing, PA, 2001–2002
* Crossing, PA, 2001–2002
* Recipient of the Association of Black Women’s Historians Letitia Woods Brown Award for best article on African American Women’s History, 2007<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5569|title=UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System|website=www.faculty.uci.edu|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref>
* Recipient of the Association of Black Women's Historians Letitia Woods Brown Award for best article on African American Women's History, 2007


== Works ==
== Works ==
''Finding Charity’s Folk'' is a book written by Millward and published by the University of Georgia Press in December 2015.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Millward |first=Jessica |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VQXoCgAAQBAJ&q=%2522Jessica%2520Millward%2522&pg=PP1 |title=Finding Charity's Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland |date=2015-12-15 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |isbn=978-0-8203-3108-9 |language=en}}</ref> ''Finding Charity's Folk'' encompasses oral history, artifacts, photos, and personal accounts acquired over 15 years of research to share the narrative of enslaved women who had been silenced.
[http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/finding_charitys_folk Finding Charity’s Folk]


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== References ==
Finding Charity’s Folk is a book written by Dr. Millward and published by The University of Georgia Press in December of 2015. Dr. Millward complicates the experience of enslaved African American women to earning freedom in her research of the life of Charity Folks. <ref>{{Cite book|title=Finding Charity's Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland|last=Millward|first=Jesiica|publisher=The University of Press|year=2015|isbn=978-0-8203-4879-7|location=Athens, Georgia|pages=}}</ref>The book focuses on the actions of enslaved women as they bargained for their freedom. Dr. Millward researched the life of Folks for 15 years using oral history, personal accounts, and other artifacts to complicated the narrative of the enslaved woman.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.humanities.uci.edu/SOH/about/press_release_det.php?id=284|title=New book offers insight into world of enslaved women in early America|website=www.humanities.uci.edu|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref>
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{{Reflist}}


=== Reviews ===
==External links==
*{{official site|https://www.drjmil.com/}}
* 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).


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=== '''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.


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== References ==
[[Category:University of California, Irvine faculty]]
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'''Explanatory Notes'''


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Latest revision as of 23:19, 7 November 2024

Jessica Millward
BornJune 17
American Fork, Utah
EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D
Occupation(s)Author, historian
Employer(s)University of California, Irvine
Websitejessicamillward.com

Jessica Millward is an American historian who focuses on African American history, early America, African diaspora, slavery, and gender. Her work focuses on the female slave experience by emphasizing narratives of black women during slavery.

Early life

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Jessica Millward was born in American Fork, Utah. She was raised in West Valley City, near Salt Lake City, in a Mormon household.[1][2]

Education

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At the University of Utah, Millward majored in history and minored in African American studies to earn her bachelor's degree. After completing her bachelor's degree, a four-year scholarship was awarded to Millward to teach in secondary school in Utah. However, Millward decided to attend the University of California, Los Angeles, where she received her master's degree in African American studies and where she earned her doctorate. Millward was the first person on either side of her family to attend college and earn her Ph.D.[3]

Maya Angelou's book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, first sparked Millward's interest in studying African American history. Once in her master's program, Brenda Stevenson became an advisor to Millward. Stevenson's research intrigued Millward and encouraged her to study the slave experience.[4] Newly learned knowledge from personal accounts and interacting with Stevenson's research became the foundation to Millward's book, Finding Charity's Folk.

Career

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Millward is an associate professor in the history department in the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine.[5] Before teaching at the University of California, Irvine, she taught African American history at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[6]

While at the University of California, Irvine, Millward founded the UCI Ghana Project, a research exchange program between the University of California, Irvine and the University of Ghana.[7]

Millward is involved with professional societies such as the 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, and Delta Sigma Theta.[7]

Awards and honors

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Some of Millward's honors include:[7]

  • Association of American University Women Post Doctoral Fellowship, 2006–2007
  • Lord Baltimore Fellowship, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD, 2004–2006
  • Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, African-American Studies and Research
  • Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2003–2004
  • Nathan Huggins/Benjamin Quarles Dissertation Research Award, Organization of American Historians, 2003
  • Research Fellow, David Library of the American Revolution, Washington
  • Crossing, PA, 2001–2002
  • Recipient of the Association of Black Women's Historians Letitia Woods Brown Award for best article on African American Women's History, 2007

Works

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Finding Charity’s Folk is a book written by Millward and published by the University of Georgia Press in December 2015.[8] Finding Charity's Folk encompasses oral history, artifacts, photos, and personal accounts acquired over 15 years of research to share the narrative of enslaved women who had been silenced.

References

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  1. ^ "Mumia: Vulnerability and Hope - The Feminist Wire". The Feminist Wire. 2014-01-23. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  2. ^ "GRADUATION: HUNTER". DeseretNews.com. 1991-06-07. Archived from the original on June 4, 2016. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  3. ^ "Continuum - - Winter 2003". continuum.utah.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  4. ^ "UCLA History". www.history.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  5. ^ "UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System". www.faculty.uci.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
  6. ^ "Teaching African American History in the Age of Obama". www.academia.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  7. ^ a b c "UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System". www.faculty.uci.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  8. ^ Millward, Jessica (2015-12-15). Finding Charity's Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3108-9.
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