Associate Professor of History
Office: 306 Carson Hall
Office Phone: (603) 646-2524
Fax: (603) 646-3353
Email: Celia.Naylor@Dartmouth.edu
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Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Celia E. Naylor migrated to the United States with her family in 1977. Her Jamaican roots in many ways sparked her enthusiasm for African-American history and African Diasporic Studies in general. She received her Ph.D. in History from Duke University.
Her work explores the multifaceted connections between African-Americans and Native Americans in the United States. She was one of the coordinators of the conference "'Eating Out of the Same Pot': Relating Black and Native (Hi)stories," held at Dartmouth College in April 2000. Her publications include the chapter "'Born and raised among these people, I don't want to know any other': Slaves' Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century Indian Territory" in the anthology Confounding the Color Line: The Indian-Black Experience in North America, edited by James F. Brooks (University of Nebraska Press, 2002), the co-authored chapter (with Tiya Miles) "African Americans in Indian Societies" in the Handbook of North American Indians, volume 14—Southeast, edited by Raymond Fogelson (Smithsonian Institution, 2004), as well as the essay "'Playing Indian'?: The Selection of Radmilla Cody as Miss Navajo Nation 1997-1998" in the collection Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, edited by Sharon P. Holland and Tiya Miles (Duke University Press, 2006). Her book entitled African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in May 2008 (part of the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture). It focuses on the nineteenth-century experiences of enslaved and free people of African descent in the Cherokee Nation.
One of her current projects examines the contemporary controversy of descendants of enslaved and free Black Cherokees in the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. Her new research topic centers on bondage and slave resistance in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Antigua.
Her interests include African-American and Caribbean history; Native American history; women's history and literature in the African Diaspora; and colonialism and neocolonialism in the Americas.
