Her research focuses on slavery in early America, African American history as well as women and gender. Dr. Millward’s first book, Finding Charity’s Folk: Enslaved and Free Black women in Maryland was published as part of the Race in the Atlantic World series, Athens: University of Georgia Press (2015). An award winning scholar, she has published in the Journal of African American History, the Journal of Women’s History, Frontiers, Souls and the Women’s History Review as well as Op-eds in Chronicle of Higher Education, The Feministwire.com and The Conversation.com. Millward is currently working on a book length project that discusses African American women’s legal and extra-legal responses to sexual assault and intimate partner violence in the fifty years following the abolition of slavery in the American South; the first time that the formerly enslaved possessed legal rights to their bodies.