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Ph.D. in African American History, University of Georgia, (2020)

M.A. in American History, James Madison University, (2016)

Expertise

Articles

Chiles, M. T. (2024). The Black Football Crisis: Reforming HBCU Football before Its Golden Age, 1912–1932. The Journal of African American History 109 (3) , pp. 417-447.

Chiles, M. T. (2023). Gideon Edward Smith: The Player and Coach Who Gave Meaning to Meaning to Black College Football, 1892-1942. Journal of African American Studies 27 (1) , pp. 187-205.

Chiles , M. T. Prince Basketball's Ambassadors: Virginia Union's 'Dream Team' and the Origins of Integrated College Basketball, 1938-1942 . Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (date forthcoming).

Chiles, M. T. . (2023). “Here We Go Again”: Race and Redevelopment in Downtown Richmond, Virginia, 1977-Present. Journal of Urban History 49 (1) , pp. 133-59.

Chiles, M. T. (2022). Our Metropolitan Separations: The Case for Metropolitan Public Schools in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Journal of Race and Policy 16 (1) , pp. 59-80.

Chiles, M. T. (2022). Re-Envisioning Richmond’s Past: Race, Reconciliation, and Public History in the Modern South, 1990 to the Present. Journal of Southern History LXXXVIII (4) , pp. 707-52.

Chiles, M. T. (2021). “Historian of Black Virginia: Luther Porter Jackson, An Appraisal”. Spectrum: A Journal on Men 9 (2) , pp. 135-57.

Chiles, M. T. (2021). "A Period of Misunderstanding: Reforming Jim Crow in Richmond, Virginia, 1930-1954". Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 129 (3) , pp. 244-78.

Chiles, M. T. . (2020). "Tough on Conduct: Punitive Leadership in Urban Public Schools, A Case Study of Angry Principal Dr. Roy A. West, 1986-1991". Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men 8 (1) , pp. 55-85.

Chiles, M. T.. (2020). "Down Where the South Begins: Black Richmond Activism Before the Modern Civil Rights Movement, 1899-1930". Journal of African American History 105 (1) , pp. 56-82.

Books

Chiles, M. T.. (2025). Playing for Power: Resistance in Black Amateur Football and Basketball in Jim Crow Virginia, 1892-1970 . University of Alabama Press .

Chiles, M. T. Man on a Mission: Boo Williams and The Rise of Modern Basketball. McFarland Publishing, Co., (Under Contract). .

(2023). The Struggle to Change: Race and The Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond. University of Virginia Press.

Book Chapters

Chiles, M. (2025). Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson III, and Black Legal Activism in Jim Crow Virginia Leading Figures in the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. (pp. 98-127) University Press of Florida.

• 2022: William M.E. Rachal Award Winner (2022), Virginia Historical Society
• 2020: African American Studies Institute Lee B. Giles Encouragement Award, Institute for African American Studies at the University of Georgia