Dr. Jessica Millward is an Associate professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on comparative slavery and emancipation, African American history, gender and the law. She is the author of 鈥淭eaching African American History in the Age of Obama,鈥� which appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education. She is also the recipient of the 2007 Association of Black Women Historians鈥� Letitia Brown Wood award for the best article in African American Women鈥檚 History for her article titled, 鈥淢ore History Than Myth: African American Women鈥檚 History since the Publication of Ar鈥檔鈥檛 I a Woman,鈥� Journal of Women鈥檚 History Vol. 19 No. 2 (Summer 2007): 161-167.鈥� Dr. Millward鈥檚 work has appeared in Frontier鈥檚: A Journal of Women鈥檚 History, the Women鈥檚 History Review and is forthcoming in the Journal of African American History. Dr. Millward鈥檚 manuscript on enslaved women, family and freedom in pre Civil War Maryland is forthcoming as part of the Race in the
Atlantic World series, University of Georgia Press.

Dr. Millward is a founding member of the UCI Ghana Project-an educational and cultural exchange program between faculty, students, and staff at the University of California Irvine and the University of Ghana, Legon. For three weeks during summer 2010, UCI collaborated with the Kwame Nkrumah Institute for African Studies, the Ghana Dance Ensemble, and the Department of Dance at the University of Ghana, Legon. Dr. Millward holds affiliate status with the following programs at UCI: African American Studies, the Culture and Theory Program, the Department of Women鈥檚 Studies as well as the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies. She is a Research Associate at the Center for Comparative Immigration at UC San Diego as well as a member of the Organization of American Historian鈥檚 Committee on the Status of African American, Latino/a, Asian American, and Native American (ALANA) Historians and ALANA Histories.