Mary Niall Mitchell

Associate Professor

Contact Information

Dr. Mitchell is on Sabbatical and will return following the summer 2012 semester.
Office Location: 151 Liberal Arts Building
Phone: (504) 280-6144
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), as well as articles and reviews on race, slavery, and emancipation in the U.S. South and the Americas. She teaches courses on slavery in the Atlantic World, the nineteenth century, women and slavery, and historical methods.  She is currently working on a new project about race, slavery, and the Fugitive Slave Act in the 1850s, tentatively titled The Real Ida May: Race, 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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