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Background
Tiffany M. Gill is an Associate Professor at University of Delaware in the Department of Black American Studies and the Department of History at the University of Delaware. Gill first attended Georgetown University and received her degree in American Studies .She then went on to Rutgers University to earn her Doctorate in American History. She received her first start as an instructor at Rutgers University as an instructor in 1998. She then moved on to Nyack College Manhattan Center in 2000. Gill finally moved on to University of Texas as an Assistant Professor and stayed until 2010, where she became an Associate Professor. She finally moved to become an Associate Professor at the University of Delaware, where she currently lectures and continues her research in African American Studies, the history of black entrepreneur ship, fashion, and beauty studies, and travel and migration throughout the African Diaspora. Gill’s teaching interests are Civil Rights, African American Women’s History, and Studies of Race and Beauty.

Publications
Gill has published one book titled, “Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry”. The book is about how black beauticians during the Jim Crow era risked their economic status and transform a community into places for activism. Gill shows how African American beauty entrepreneurs built and sustained a vibrant culture of activism in beauty salons as well as their role in building community. The book received the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award in 2010. Gill is also currently working on a book titled, “Intentional Tourists: International Leisure Travel and the Making of Black Global Citizens .” Gill has not only been recognized for writing books, but she has written articles and essays. The article is titled, “I Had My Own Business…So I didn’t Have to Worry‟: Beauty Salons, Beauty Culturists, and Black Community Life”. Also, Gill has written an essay titled, “‘The First Thing Every Negro Girl Does’: Black Beauty Culture, Racial Politics, and the Construction of Modern Black Womanhood, 1905-1925 ”

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

 * Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize, Association of Black Women‟s Historians, 2010.
 * Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Texas Board of Regents, 2010.
 * University Co-operative Society Subvention Grant, University of Texas- Austin, Fall 2009
 * Institute for Historical Studies Research Fellow, University of Texas- Austin, 2009-2010
 * John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies Summer Research Grant, University of Texas-Austin, Summer 2009
 * Department of History Scholarly Activities Grant, University of Texas- Austin, Spring 2006, Fall 2008
 * College of Liberal Arts Dean’s Fellowship, University of Texas- Austin, Fall 2007
 * British Studies Junior Fellow, University of Texas- Austin, 2006- 2007
 * Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow, University of Texas-Austin, Fall 2006
 * Who’s Who in the Humanities, 2005
 * American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Fellow, 2005-2006
 * College of Liberal Arts Faculty Research Assignment, University of Texas- Austin, 2005- 2006
 * Center for Women’s and Gender Studies New Faculty Fellow, University of Texas- Austin, 2004-2005
 * Herman E. Krooss Dissertation Prize, Awarded by the Business History Conference for the best dissertation in Business History, 2004
 * George Washington Henderson Dissertation Fellowship, Visiting Scholar-in-Residence, The University of Vermont- Department of History, 2002-2003
 * Newcomen Society Dissertation Fellowship for Excellence in American Business History, 2001
 * The Ford Foundation Minority Dissertation Fellowship, Honorable Mention, 2001-2002
 * John Hope Franklin Center for Documentary Studies, Research Fellow, Duke University, 2000- 2001
 * Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Graduate Fellow, The Black Atlantic: Race, Gender, and Nation Project, Rutgers University- New Brunswick, 1998-1999
 * Trustee’s Minority Graduate Fellowship, Rutgers University- New Brunswick, 1996-1998