Mia Bay is an American historian and currently the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History at the University of Pennsylvania.[1] 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[2] and To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells.[3]
Life and career
Bay earned her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1993 and is a professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania.[4] She has taught at Rutgers University where she also served as co-director of the Black Atlantic Seminar at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis[5] and is a member of the Organization of American Historians.[6] She was awarded the Bancroft Prize in 2022 for Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance.[7]
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.[8]
- Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line. Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity, 2015. (Editor, Contributor).[9]
- 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.[10]
- To Tell the Truth Freely: the Life of Ida B. Wells. Hill & Wang, 2009.[11][12][13][14][15][16]
- The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.[17]