Molly Mitchell

Molly Mitchell is Ethel & Herman L. Midlo Endowed Chair and Gordon Mueller Professor of Public History at UNO, where she directs the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies.  She is author of Raising Freedom’s Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future After Slavery and has published online for Slate, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and the New York Times.  With True Fiktion, she produced the comic book Jane’s Freedom: Self Liberation in Antebellum New Orleans. She also co-produced Don’t Stand Alone: Black Labor Organizing in New Orleans and curated the illustrated exhibit Amongst Ourselves: Enslaved Resistance at Whitney Plantation.