PROFILE

Mia Bay, Ph.D., is the Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University Pennsylvania. Prior to arriving Penn, Bay worked at Rutgers University, where she was a professor of history and the director of the Rutgers Center for Race and Ethnicity.

Professor Bay is a scholar of American and African American intellectual, cultural, and social history, whose recent interests include Black women’s thought, African American approaches to citizenship, and the history of race and transportation. She holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. from Yale University and a B.A. from the University of Toronto.