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Mia Bagneris is an Associate Professor of Art History at Tulane University, affiliated with the Stone Center for Latin American Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in African and African American Studies from Harvard University (2009) and an A.B. in Women’s Studies and Afro-American Studies from Harvard-Radcliffe College (1999). Her research focuses on African Diaspora art, 18th-19th century American visual culture, and intersections between art and interracial narratives.
Bagneris has taught at Tulane since 2009, serving as Assistant Professor since 2012. Prior roles include Teaching Fellowships at Harvard (2005-2009) and coordination of thesis workshops for Harvard’s African and African American Studies program. She is fluent in French and Spanish, enhancing her interdisciplinary research.
Her publications explore topics such as John Bell’s sculptural representations of mixed-race identity, Agostino Brunias’s colonial Caribbean paintings, and Norman Lewis’s abstract depictions of African American life. These works interrogate race, colonialism, and cultural hybridity across historical contexts.
Bagneris has received prestigious awards including the Harvard Dissertation Completion Fellowship and the Derek Bok Distinction in Teaching Award. Her research has been supported by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, and she has supervised six graduate theses in the past five years.
She is actively involved in Tulane’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies, contributing to interdisciplinary scholarship on the Americas. Her work bridges art history with critical race studies, emphasizing global and transnational frameworks.
