Professional Affiliation

Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania

Expert Bio

Mia Bay is the Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History at University of Pennsylvania. She is a scholar of American and African American intellectual, cultural and social history, whose publications include The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925 (Oxford University Press, 2000); To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009), and Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance (Harvard University Press, 2021).