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Mia L. Bagneris serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Art at Tulane University. Her scholarly work focuses on African diaspora art history and the study of race in Western visual culture, with particular emphasis on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and American art.
She holds a Ph.D. in African American Studies from Harvard University, with a primary field in History of Art and Visual Culture.
Dr. Bagneris's research explores the representation of race in the Anglo-American world, examining how visual culture intersects with the histories of slavery, colonialism, and empire. She investigates depictions of mixed-race individuals that challenge constructed racial orders, exposing the artificial foundations of racial categories and their role in national identity formation. Her work reveals how images simultaneously reflected and shaped racial ideologies in historical contexts.
Her recent publications demonstrate sustained engagement with visual representations of race and mixed-race identities across British and American contexts. Key thematic threads include enslaved mixed-race beauties in post-abolition Britain, colonial Caribbean visual culture, and intersections between Orientalism and depictions of the American South. These works appear in leading journals like American Art and The Art Bulletin, alongside monographs and edited volumes.
Her research has been recognized through prestigious awards and grants:
- ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship
- Yale Center for British Art Fellowship
- Harvard University W.E.B. DuBois Institute Fellowship
- New Orleans Center for the Gulf South Grant
- Terra Foundation Grant
- Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
Dr. Bagneris is currently advancing two major scholarly projects: the book Imagining the Oriental South: The Enslaved Mixed-Race Beauty in British Art and Culture, c. 1865-1900 and the collaborative volume Reframing 'Black Art': Case Studies in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture (Routledge, 2023). These endeavors, supported by multiple grants, underscore her significant contributions to understanding race, visuality, and historical representation.
