Mia Bay
Mia Bay is an American historian serving as the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge.[1] She previously served as the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History at the University of Pennsylvania.[2] 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.[1]
Life and career
Bay earned her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1993[3] and was a professor of American history at the University of Pennsylvania.[2] She has also taught at Rutgers University where she served as co-director of the Black Atlantic Seminar at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis,[4] and is a member of the Organization of American Historians.[5] She was awarded the Bancroft Prize in 2022 for Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance.[6]
Works
- The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.[7]
- To Tell the Truth Freely: the Life of Ida B. Wells. New York: Hill & Wang, 2009.[8][9][10][11][12][13]
- Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans, with Documents. Co-authored with Deborah Gray White and Waldo Martin, New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2012.[14]
- Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line. Co-edited with Ann Fabian, Rutgers University Press, 2015.[15]
- Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2021.[16]
References
- 1 2 "Professor Mia Bay". Faculty of History University of Cambridge. Retrieved June 24, 2026.
- 1 2 "Mia Bay Named Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History". School of Arts and Sciences - University of Pennsylvania. May 1, 2018. Retrieved June 24, 2026.
- ↑ "Dissertations by year, 1990-1999". Yale University Department of History. Retrieved June 24, 2026.
- ↑ "Mia Bay". Brandeis University. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
- ↑ "Mia Bay". Organization of American Historians. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
- ↑ Schuessler, Jennifer (March 16, 2022). "Histories of Travel Segregation and Chinese Migration Win Bancroft Prize". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 17, 2022.
- ↑ Martin, Waldo E. Jr. (Summer 2000). "The White Image in the Black Mind: African American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925 (review)". Callaloo. 23 (3): 1153–1155. doi:10.1353/cal.2000.0151. ISSN 1080-6512.
- ↑ Materson, Lisa G. (June 2010). "Mia Bay. To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells. New York: Hill and Wang. 2009. Pp. viii, 374. $35.00". The American Historical Review. 115 (3): 852–853. doi:10.1086/ahr.115.3.852. ISSN 0002-8762.
- ↑ Jones, Jeannette Eileen (Fall–Winter 2009). "To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells (review)". American Studies. 50 (3/4): 183–184. doi:10.1353/ams.2009.0030. ISSN 2153-6856. S2CID 144886577.
- ↑ "To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells". Publishers Weekly. December 15, 2008. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
- ↑ "TO TELL THE TRUTH FREELY". Kirkus Reviews. November 15, 2008. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
- ↑ Woodruff, Nan E. (May 2011). "Review of To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells". The Journal of Southern History. 77 (2): 459–460. ISSN 0022-4642.
- ↑ Harper, Matt (Summer 2011). "Review Mia Bay, To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009. Pp. 374. Cloth $35.00. Paper $18.00". The Journal of African American History. 96 (3): 410–412. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.96.3.0410.
- ↑ "Front Matter". The Journal of African American History. 97 (3) jafriamerhist.97.3.fm. Summer 2012. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.97.3.fm. ISSN 1548-1867.
- ↑ West, E. James (2018). "Race and Retail: Consumption Across The Color Line eds. by Mia Bay and Ann Fabian". American Studies. 56 (3/4): 126–127. doi:10.1353/ams.2018.0018. ISSN 2153-6856.
- ↑ Szalai, Jennifer (March 24, 2021). "'Traveling Black,' a Look at the Civil Rights Movement in Motion". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 17, 2022.
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