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Dr. Jessica Millward is an Associate professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on comparative slavery and emancipation, African American history, gender and the law. She is the author of 鈥淭eaching African American History in the Age of Obama,鈥� which appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education. She is also the recipient of the 2007 Association of Black Women Historians鈥� Letitia Brown Wood award for the best article in African American Women鈥檚 History for her article titled, 鈥淢ore History Than Myth: African American Women鈥檚 History since the Publication of Ar鈥檔鈥檛 I a Woman,鈥� Journal of Women鈥檚 History Vol. 19 No. 2 (Summer 2007): 161-167.鈥� Dr. Millward鈥檚 work has appeared in Frontier鈥檚: A Journal of Women鈥檚 History, the Women鈥檚 History Review and is forthcoming in the Journal of African American History. Dr. Millward鈥檚 manuscript on enslaved women, family and freedom in pre Civil War Maryland is forthcoming as part of the Race in the
Atlantic World series, University of Georgia Press.

Dr. Millward is a founding member of the UCI Ghana Project-an educational and cultural exchange program between faculty, students, and staff at the University of California Irvine and the University of Ghana, Legon. For three weeks during summer 2010, UCI collaborated with the Kwame Nkrumah Institute for African Studies, the Ghana Dance Ensemble, and the Department of Dance at the University of Ghana, Legon. Dr. Millward holds affiliate status with the following programs at UCI: African American Studies, the Culture and Theory Program, the Department of Women鈥檚 Studies as well as the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies. She is a Research Associate at the Center for Comparative Immigration at UC San Diego as well as a member of the Organization of American Historian鈥檚 Committee on the Status of African American, Latino/a, Asian American, and Native American (ALANA) Historians and ALANA Histories.

Dr. Jamin Wells, associate professor and director of the Public History Master鈥檚 Program, teaches courses in local, environmental, digital, and public history. He also oversees the UWF Digital Humanities Lab.

Wells is committed to researching, writing, and teaching a usable past. He is currently working on several grant-funded projects, including a multi-year project to improve writing instruction for K-12 teachers and a pilot UWF Digital Humanities Lab. His students have worked on projects with numerous community groups and organizations throughout the region. He is also revising his dissertation for publication. This book project, tentatively titled Shipwrecks and the Making of the American Beach, explores the radical transformation of the American coast over the course of the nineteenth century. 

Dr. Hristova鈥檚 research examines algorithmic and digital media cultures. She studies the intersection of technology and culture in relation the context of photography, surveillance, and social movements.

Stefka serves as the Director of the Communication, Culture, & Media Undergraduate Program and teaches in the Rhetoric, Theory, and Culture Graduate Program.

Erin James joined the English Department at University of Idaho in 2012. Her first book The Storyworld Accord: Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives (University of Nebraska Press, 2015) explores the intersections of ecocriticism, postcolonialism, and narrative theory and questions the role narratives stand to play in a response to today’s environmental crisis. It was shortlisted for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment’s (ASLE) Best Ecocriticism Book award and won the International Society for the Study of Narrative’s (ISSN) Perkins Prize for Best Book in Narrative Studies. Her second book, Narrative in the Anthropocene (Ohio State University Press, 2022), considers the links between storytelling and anthropogenic climate change; it was also short-listed for the ASLE Best Ecocriticism Book Award. In addition to these two books, Erin co-edited Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology (Ohio State University Press, 2022) with Eric Morel.
Erin has also published essays in Cambridge Critical Concepts: Nature and Literary Studies (Cambridge UP, 2023), SubStance, DIEGESIS, Poetics Today, The Language of Plants (U of Minnesota Press 2017), the Journal of Narrative Theory, the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature, The Bioregional Imagination (U of Georgia P 2012), and Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies (Palgrave 2012).
At University of Idaho, Erin teaches courses on world literatures in English, postcolonial literatures and theory, ecocriticism, and the environmental humanities, narratology and narrative theory, and critical theory. She is also the co-founder and co-director of the interdisciplinary , which uses interdisciplinary methods to study environmental issues in rural communities. With her Confluence Lab collaborators, Erin has received major grants from the National Science Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. She is the former mentoring program co-coordinator for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and a past president of the International Society for the Study of Narrative.