Mia Brett Visiting Assistant Professor of History

Newcomb Hall 221
540-458-8963
mbrett@wlu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD, Stony Brook University, History, 2020

B.A. Barnard College, American Studies, 2009

Teaching

African American History

Academic Journals

2022 “Peculiar Jews: The Trial of Pesach Rubenstein and Antisemitism in Late Nineteenth-Century New York”, Docket (Law and History Review online)
2020 “Ten Thousand Bigamists in New York:” The Criminalization of Jewish Immigrants Using White Slavery Panics on Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History (October 27, 2020)
2020 Amy Cooper played the damsel in distress. That trope has a troubling history on The Washington Post “Made by History” Blog (May 28, 2020)
2016 Review of The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law and Justice in the Reconstruction Era by Michael Ross, Law and History Review, volume 34, issue 01, pp. 239-241.