Mia Bay is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

and currently the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

. She studies American and African-American intellectual and cultural history and is the author of, among others, ''The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925'' and ''To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells''.

Life and career

Bay earned her Ph.D. from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

in 1993 and is a professor of American History at the

. She has taught at

Rutgers University Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...

where she also served as co-director of the Black Atlantic Seminar at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis and is a member of the

Organization of American Historians The Organization of American Historians (OAH), formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. OAH's members in the U.S. and abroad incl ...

. She was awarded the

Bancroft Prize The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, d ...

in 2022 for ''Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance''.

Works

* ''The Ambidexter Philosopher: Thomas Jefferson in Free Black Thought, 1776-1877'' (forthcoming) * ''Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance''. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021. * ''Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line''. Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity, 2015. (Editor, Contributor). * ''Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans, with Documents.'' Co-authored with Deborah Gray White and Waldo Martin, Bedford Books, St. Martin’s, 2012''.'' * ''To Tell the Truth Freely: the Life of Ida B. Wells''. Hill & Wang, 2009. * ''The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925.'' New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

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