The information on this page represents that of Tim McMillan, African and Afro-American Studies, and not necessarily that of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The information on this page represents that of Tim McMillan, African and Afro-American Studies, and not necessarily that of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Tim McMillan takes full responsibility for the information presented.

Student Body Statue at UNC. Gift of the class of 1985 and installed in 1990 it beacse a fklashpoint for disucssions of sexist and racist representation.

Tim McMillan
Department of African and Afro-American Studies
CB#3395 107 Battle Hall
UNC-CH
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3395

Currently, I am an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina. I was previously at Humboldt State University (1990-1997) where among other things I was chair of the Anthropology Department for a year. My degrees are B.A., M.A., Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from UNC (Go Heels!). My Master's Thesis was a study of Roman Celtic contact in Gaul entitled "Dea ex Terra: The Reconstruction of Ancient Religion: The Celtic Horse Goddess" and my dissertation was a study of the role played by ritual prophets (orgoiik) in thwarting British Colonialism in Highland Kenya entitled "Colonial resistance in Kenya: The Kipsigis Orgoiik". For more information about me check out my. c.v.

In April 2005 I presented my research on witchcraft and slavery at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion meetings in Vancouver. The paper was entitled THE DEVIL IN THE SHAPE OF A (BLACK) WOMAN: THE DYNAMICS OF RACE AND WITCHCRAFT IN AMERICAN SLAVERY. At the end of March I was a panelist in the ”Reparations across the Americas” conference sponsored by the Institute for African American research here at UNC. In May 2006 I presented a paper titled “Reading a Black Landscape: Myth and Memory at an American University” at the Theorizing the Black Diaspora Conference at DePaul University in Chicago. I presented more of this research at the meeting of the National Council on Public History in Santa Fe in April 2007 and at the Public Memory and Ethnicity conference at Lewis and Clark University in Portland, Oregon in October 2008. In April 2009 I’m convening a panel on Remembering Slavery at the NCPH meeting in Providence RI.

In spring 2006 I was on leave at the Institute for Arts and Humanities and developed a digital walking tour of black UNC (a work still in progress.) The student body statue (in picture above) is a central concern of my study.

I give my Black and Blue tour from time to time – email me and I’ll let you know when the next one is. I’m also working on a book project about race, remembering (and forgetting) at UNC. The recent decision of the University to rename Hinton James (North) after George Moses Horton is an other example of the past in the present at our fair university!

In Fall semester 2008 I am teaching AFAM 101 and AFAM 50 (Defining Blackness) In the Spring of 2009 I’ll be teaching AFAM 101 and AFAM 280 (Blacks in North Carolina.) All class materials are available through blackboard (for enrolled students.)

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