{{short description|American historian|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{use mdy dates|date=March 2022}} '''Mia Bay''' is an American historian currently serving as the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge. She previously served as the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History at the University of Pennsylvania.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.history.upenn.edu/people/faculty/mia-bay|title=Mia Bay {{!}} Department of History|website=www.history.upenn.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-03-23}}</ref> 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''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780195132793|title=The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925|last=results|first=search|date=2000-02-10|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195132793|edition=1st|location=New York, NY|language=English|url-access=registration}}</ref> and ''To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells|last=results|first=search|date=2010-02-02|publisher=Hill and Wang|isbn=9780809016464|edition= 1st|location=New York|language=English}}</ref>
== Life and career == Bay earned her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1993 and was a professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://history.rutgers.edu/faculty-directory/97-bay-mia|title=Bay, Mia|website=history.rutgers.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-06-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511032609/http://history.rutgers.edu/faculty-directory/97-bay-mia|archive-date=2017-05-11|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/conferences/beyond-slavery/presenters/mia-bay.html|title=Mia Bay {{!}} Beyond Slavery {{!}} Feminist Sexual Ethics Project {{!}} Brandeis University {{!}} Brandeis University|website=www.brandeis.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-06-30}}</ref> and is a member of the Organization of American Historians.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oah.org/lectures/lecturers/view/1510|title=Organization of American Historians: Mia Bay|website=www.oah.org|language=en|access-date=2017-06-30}}</ref> She was awarded the Bancroft Prize in 2022 for ''Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schuessler |first=Jennifer |date=2022-03-16 |title=Histories of Travel Segregation and Chinese Migration Win Bancroft Prize |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/arts/bancroft-prize-segregation-chinese-migration.html |access-date=2022-03-17 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
== 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.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Szalai |first=Jennifer |date=2021-03-24 |title='Traveling Black,' a Look at the Civil Rights Movement in Motion |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/books/review-traveling-black-mia-bay.html |access-date=2022-03-17 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> * ''Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line''. Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity, 2015. (Editor, Contributor).<ref>{{Cite book|title=Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line|last1=Kwate|first1=Naa Oyo A.|last2=Cadava|first2=Geraldo L.|last3=Parker|first3=Traci|last4=Kenny|first4=Bridget|last5=Heaton|first5=John W.|last6=Wu|first6=Ellen D.|last7=Bayouth|first7=Neiset|last8=Londoño|first8=Johana|last9=González|first9=Erualdo R.|date=2015-08-04|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=9780813571706|editor-last=Bay|editor-first=Professor Mia|location=New Brunswick, NJ|language=English|editor-last2=Fabian|editor-first2=Professor Ann}}</ref> * ''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''.''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans with Documents, Vol. 1: To 1885|last1=White|first1=Deborah Gray|last2=Bay|first2=Mia|last3=Martin|first3=Waldo E. Jr.|date=2012-12-14|publisher=Bedford/St. Martin's|isbn=9780312648831|edition= First|location=New York|language=English}}</ref> * ''To Tell the Truth Freely: the Life of Ida B. Wells''. Hill & Wang, 2009.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Materson|first1=Lisa G.|title=Mia Bay . To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells . New York : Hill and Wang . 2009 . Pp. viii, 374. $35.00.|journal=The American Historical Review|date=1 June 2010|volume=115|issue=3|pages=852–853|doi=10.1086/ahr.115.3.852|url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/115/3/852/42292/Mia-Bay-To-Tell-the-Truth-Freely-The-Life-of-Ida-B|accessdate=30 June 2017|language=en|issn=0002-8762|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Jones|first1=Jeannette Eileen|title=To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells (review)|journal=American Studies|date=8 October 2011|volume=50|issue=3|pages=183–184|doi=10.1353/ams.2009.0030|s2cid=144886577|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/453602|accessdate=30 June 2017|issn=2153-6856|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Nonfiction Book Review: To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells by Mia Bay|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8090-9529-2|accessdate=30 June 2017|work=Publishers Weekly|date=December 15, 2008|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=TO TELL THE TRUTH FREELY by Mia Bay {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mia-bay/to-tell-the-truth-freely/|accessdate=30 June 2017|work=Kirkus Reviews|date=November 15, 2008|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=E.|first1=Woodruff, Nan|title=To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells|journal=The Journal of Southern History|date=1 May 2011|volume=77|issue=2|url=https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-255492731/to-tell-the-truth-freely-the-life-of-ida-b-wells|accessdate=30 June 2017|language=en|issn=0022-4642}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Harper|first1=Matt|title=Review|journal=The Journal of African American History|date=2011|volume=96|issue=3|pages=410–412|doi=10.5323/jafriamerhist.96.3.0410|jstor=10.5323/jafriamerhist.96.3.0410|s2cid=224838072}}</ref> * ''The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925.'' New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780195132793|title=The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925|date=2000-02-10|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195132793|location=Oxford, New York|url-access=registration}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{Official website|http://history.rutgers.edu/faculty-directory/97-bay-mia}}
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