Degree: Began PhD program in 2025
Concentration: African American and Indigenous Literature (20th & 21st Century)
Advisor: Professor Antonio T. Tiongson, Jr.

Olivia Dunbar-Miller’s research and teaching interests include 20th-century American literature with a focus on the Harlem and Black Renaissance, Black and Indigenous storytelling traditions, feminist theory, digital archives, and environmental poetics. As a librarian, educator, and digital heritage steward, she is committed to community-engaged scholarship, cultural survivance, and decolonial praxis. Olivia is an African American Studies fellow with the African American Studies (AAS) Department for the 2025-26 academic year.
• B.A. English, Western Washington University
• M.S. Library and Information Science, Syracuse University