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Email: celia.naylor@dartmouth.edu Phone: 603-646-0224 (African and African American Studies); 603-646-2524 (History) Office: 6134 Choate House (African and African American Studies); 6107 Carson Hall (History)
Education
B.A. Cornell University; M.A. UCLA; M.A. Duke University; Ph.D. Duke University
Areas of Expertise
African-American history; Native American history; women's history; colonialism and slavery in the Americas
Selected Works
African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens, (2008).
"'Playing Indian'?: The Selection of Radmilla Cody as Miss Navajo Nation 1997-1998" in Crossing Waters, Crossing Paths: Black and Indian Journeys in the Americas, S Holland, T Miles (eds.), (2006).
"Rethinking Race and Culture in the Early South," with C Saunt, T Miles, B Krauthamer and C Sturm, Ethnohistory, 53:2 (Spring 2006) 399-405.
"Born a Slave, Born Free and 'To Go Free': African-American Experiences in the Louisiana Purchase Area during the Antebellum Period," in The Louisiana Purchase and Its Peoples: Perspectives from the New Orleans Conference, P Hoffman (ed.), (2004). 99-110.
"African Americans in Indian Societies," in Handbook of North American Indians, with T Miles, R Fogelson (ed.), 14 (2004) 753-759.
"'Born and Raised among These People, I Don't Want to Know Any Other': Slaves' Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century Indian Territory," in Confounding the Color Line: The Indian-Black Experience in North America, J F Brooks (ed.), (2002) 161-191.
Current Projects
"Black Blood", Blood Lineality and the Politics of Exclusion: The Contemporary Dilemma of Black-Cherokee Citizens and Cherokee Sovereignty; bondage and resistance in eighteenth-and early-ninteenth century Antigua
