Nakia D. Parker is a postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor of History at Michigan State University. She received her PhD in History from the University of Texas at Austin in 2019, under the direction of Dr. Daina Ramey Berry. Her dissertation, “Trails of Tears and Freedom: Slavery, Migration, and Emancipation in the Indian Territory Borderlands, 1830-1907,” examines the forced migrations, resettlement patterns, and labor practices of people of African and black Indian descent enslaved in Choctaw and Chickasaw communities during the nineteenth century. She focuses on African-American and Native American history, the black diaspora in the 19th century West, and gender and slavery.
Nakia Parker
