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Mary Niall Mitchell, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Co-Director, Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies
Ethel and Herman L. Midlo Endowed Chair
Joseph Tregle Professor of Early American History

Contact

504-280-6144
molly.mitchell@uno.edu
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Mitchell, Mary Niall
Education

Ph..D., New York University, 2001

About

Mary Niall Mitchell is Ethel & Herman L. Midlo Chair in New Orleans Studies, Joseph Tregle Professor in Early American History, and Associate Professor of History at the University of New Orleans where she co-directs the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies. She is the author of Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery (NYU Press, 2008). Her latest book, Girl in the Frame, is a study of race, photography, slavery and memory in the nineteenth century.  Prof. Mitchell is one of three lead historians for Freedomonthemove.org, a collaborative database of fugitive slave advertisements housed at Cornell.  She has written for the New York Times Disunion blog, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, and Common-place.org. 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, and J. William Fulbright Foundation.

Courses Taught

4000-level

  • Women and Slavery in the Americas
  • Free People of Color in the Americas
  • The Visual Culture of the Civil War
  • Nineteenth-Century Lives
  • Research in New Orleans History: New Historiography

 6000-level

  • U.S. Cultural History (graduate)
  • Special topics in Public History
Research Interests

U.S. South, Slavery & Emancipation, Nineteenth-Century Cultural History, Visual Culture

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