Mary Niall Mitchell

Mary Niall Mitchell, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Contact Information

Office Hours: W 10:00-1:00; T/TH  3:00-5:15 or by appointment
Office Location: 168 Education Building
Phone: (504) 280-1208
Email Address: molly.mitchell@uno.edu

Educational Background

PhD, New York University, 2001

Research Interests

U.S. South, Slavery & Emancipation, 19th Century Cultural History

Background

Mary Niall Mitchell is the author of Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future After Slavery (NYU Press, 2008), a cultural history of African American children and the politics of freedom in the nineteenth century, as well as articles and book reviews on race, the Civil War, and abolition in the U.S. South and the comparative history of race and gender after emancipation in the U.S. South and Latin America.  She is currently working on a new project on race and the Fugitive Slave Act entitled The Real Ida May: Truth, Fiction, and Daguerreotypes in a Story of Antislavery.  She has received fellowships and awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Studies Association, and the American Historical Association.

Publications (more>>)

Courses Taught
United States to 1877
The Antebellum South
Women and Slavery in the Americas
U.S. Slavery and the Atlantic World
Historical Thought & Writing (workshop for History majors)
Historical Research and Writing (introductory course for master’s students)

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