Mia Bay is an American historian serving as the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge.^[1] She previously served as the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History at the University of Pennsylvania.^[2] 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.^[1]

Bay earned her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1993^[3] and was a professor of American history at the University of Pennsylvania.^[2] 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,^[4] and is a member of the Organization of American Historians.^[5] She was awarded the Bancroft Prize in 2022 for Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance.^[6]

• The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.^[7]
• To Tell the Truth Freely: the Life of Ida B. Wells. New York: Hill & Wang, 2009.^{[8][9][10][11][12][13]}
• Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans, with Documents. Co-authored with Deborah Gray White and Waldo Martin, New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2012.^[14]
• Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line. Co-edited with Ann Fabian, Rutgers University Press, 2015.^[15]
• Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2021.^[16]

• Official website