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]
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]
{{cite journal}}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)