Jessica Millward is a media savvy historian and podcast host who specializes in bringing a historical perspective to modern times.  An out of the box thinker, radical dreamer and intellectual freedom fighter, Millward is particularly interested in the intersections of slavery, freedom, power and liberation.

Professor Millward is the Black Thriving Inclusive Excellence Term Chair at UC Irvine. An Associate Professor in the Department of History and Core Faculty member of African American Studies,  Dr. Millward's first book, Finding Charity’s Folk: Enslaved and Free Black women in Maryland was published as part of the Race in the Atlantic World series, Athens: University of Georgia Press (2015).   An award winning scholar, she has published in the Journal of African American History, the Journal of Women’s History, Frontiers, Souls and the Women’s History Review as well as Op-eds in Chronicle of Higher Education, The Feministwire.com and The Conversation.com.  Millward is currently working on a book length project that discusses African American women's experiences with sexual assault and intimate partner violence in the late19th century. 

Dr. Jmil splits her time between southern California and Accra, Ghana.