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Jessica Millward
Email Jessica MillwardAssistant Professor of History and Afro-American Studies
Jessica Millward is an Assistant Professor of History and African American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she also holds a courtesy appointment (zero time) in Gender and Women’s Studies. She received her Ph.D. in U.S. history from the University of California–Los Angeles in 2003. Her research interests include comparative slavery and emancipation and black women’s history and gender studies, with special emphasis on early America, Southern history, and the black family. Dr. Millward’s current scholarly projects include her forthcoming monograph titled Deliverance from Chaldees: Gender, Slavery, and Manumission in Maryland, 1760–1860 (Race in the Atlantic World Series, 1700–1900; Athens: University of Georgia Press), as well as a second project titled Abandoned Lands and Abandoned Plantations: Migration and Mobility in the Afro-Atlantic, 1765–1835. Dr. Millward’s research has been supported by the American Association of University Women; the Daughters of the Colonial Wars; the David Library of the American Revolution; the Maryland Historical Society; the Organization of American Historians; the University of Illinois Mellon Faculty Fellows program; and the University of Illinois Research Board.
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