https://www.drjmil.com/medical-humanities daily 0.75 2021-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe2022c12753a7f033b3ee2/1610509475365-D3YCJQGDU4D2FSZ51WN0/17634747_10154269146612364_5509760676706356437_n.jpg Digital Humanist - Building digital archives. Connecting people beyond walls. In 2020, Jessica Millward, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard and Johanna Fernandez launched the Activist Studio West to curate an open access digital archive of materials related to documenting the efforts to bring Mumia Abu Jamal home. Part love letter and part teaching and research platform, ASW is fortified in the commitment to bring Mumia’s words, writing and struggle to the public. This archive is maintained by undergraduate and graduate students at UCI and participating Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). (Photo: Jessica Millward and Mumia Abu Jamal, April 2017, SCI Mahanoy Prison, Frackville, PA.) “I began writing to Mumia Abu-Jamal in December 2011 while he was in the liminal space between Death Row at SCI Greene and his release into the general population at Mahanoy Prison. During the seven weeks that he was in “the hole,” we communicated in a series of hand-written notes back and forth. I am not part of the “Campaign to Bring Mumia Home.” I do not attend meetings. I do not march for his freedom. But I do ponder his confinement. As a scholar of slavery I am haunted by the loneliness, depression, strength, and sadness of our ancestors. I know the frustration of a dream deferred. I know what it is to hope for something that is unimaginable. I also knew that wishing for something and being prepared for it was often two different things.” —Jessica Millward, Mumia, Vulnerability and Hope https://www.drjmil.com/writer daily 0.75 2025-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe2022c12753a7f033b3ee2/1610901307421-NO24O6ZLXQEL7XXW9TLX/41JWGAuXOwL._SX331_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg Writer - Dr. Millward is the author of Finding Charity’s Folk which highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Dr. Millward skillfully brings together African American social and gender history to provide a new means of using biography as a historical genre. “If the story of Charity Folks and other enslaved women is any indication, what we do matters. The stories of enslaved women and black women more generally are crucial to our understanding of the long arc of the fight for freedom.”— Jessica Millward https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe2022c12753a7f033b3ee2/1610903979617-YJUN71AK17VVI9QM1M06/72266556_10156282251312364_6077287112187576320_n+%281%29.jpg Writer https://www.drjmil.com/speaker daily 0.75 2022-05-12 https://www.drjmil.com/drjmilcom daily 1.0 2023-09-26 https://www.drjmil.com/podcaster daily 0.75 2025-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe2022c12753a7f033b3ee2/1610506478174-S7Y0ENWQAHO1AT60D2E7/68421149_10156134808417364_6471773600557826048_n.jpg Podcaster - Host of the Historians on Housewives podcast which brings together scholars from interdisciplinary backgrounds to explain The Housewives phenomenon, and to explore how issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality can better shape understandings of American and world history. Guest Appearances Staff Favorite Pick Ben Franklin’s World Podcast: Slavery and Freedom in Early Maryland Ghana and the Year of Return A Pandemic Doesn’t Stop Racism, Black Fam 2.0 “Becoming Harriet,” Following Harriet Podcast - Virginia Tourism Corporation Expert Commentary UCI - On Juneteenth SCPR - A History Lesson on Juneteenth WBAI, New York City - “Law and Disorder” Podcast. “Harriet Tubman and Charity Folks: Say Their Name.” 93.1 on iHeart Radio - "Why We love ‘Power’," Dr. Ricky L. Jones Radio 93.1 on iHeart Radio - "Topics: Cyberbullying of Leslie Jones and the Nate Parker's Rape Case," Dr. Ricky L. Jones. Radio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe2022c12753a7f033b3ee2/82372c7e-27e4-4160-930f-3268a45295f8/IMG_2509.jpg Podcaster Get the book inspired by the podcast! https://www.drjmil.com/creative daily 0.75 2023-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe2022c12753a7f033b3ee2/8448a96d-5cc2-450b-8eca-cec49beb3242/0.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe2022c12753a7f033b3ee2/2ff1a127-ec71-4d50-a821-324e8d80cbc9/1693853748770.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe2022c12753a7f033b3ee2/c2044c05-ed95-4d03-aa4e-a9cd268cef98/1693853746962.jpg