American historian
Mia Bay is an American historian and currently the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History at the University of Pennsylvania. 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 in 1993 and is a professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. 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 and is a member of the Organization of American Historians. She was awarded the Bancroft Prize in 2022 for "Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance".
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