Mia Bagneris

Associate Professor - Art History

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty
Mia L. Bagneris

Additional Info

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years:

6

Research

Art of African Diaspora; 18th and 19th C American Art and Visual Culture; Interracial Art and Literature

Degrees

  • A.B., Harvard-Radcliffe College, Women’s Studies and Afro-American Studdies, 1999
  • Ph.D., Harvard University, African and African American Studies, 2009

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2012-
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2009-2012
  • Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 2005-2009

Distinctions

  • Harvard University Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2008-2009
  • W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Fellowship, 2007-2008
  • Derek Bok Distinction in Teaching Award, 2006
  • Ramroop Prize, 2006
  • Alain Locke Prize for Highest Achievement in African American Studies, Harvard-Radcliffe College, 1999

Languages

  • French
  • Spanish

Related Experience

  • Head Teaching Fellow, African and African Studies Program, Harvard University, 2006, 2007
  • Coordinator, A.B. Thesis Writing Workshop, Department of African and African American Studies Program, Harvard University, 2005-2006, 2006-2007
  • Research Assistant, Harvard University, 2005

Selected Publications

  • 2020. "Miscegenation in Marble: John Bell's Octoroon" The Art Bulletin. Vol. 102, No. 2 pp. 64-99.
  • 2017. Colouring the Caribbean: Race and the art of Agostino Brunias. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • 2017. “The Great Colonial Minstrel Show: Reconsidering Africa in the Art of Palmer Hayden,” Nka:Journal of Contemporary African Art, pp. 14-29.
  • 2014. “Loner in the Dark: The Singular Vision of Norman Lewis and the Evidence of Things Unseen.” In Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis. Norman Kleeblatt, ed. New York: Jewish Museum/Yale University Press.
  • 2013. “Reimagining Race, Class, and Identity in the New World.” In Behind Closed Doors: Power and Privilige at Home in Colonial Latin America. Richard Aste, ed. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum.