Maurie D McInnis

McInnis, who received her PhD in the History of Art from Yale, is a scholar of American art and slavery in the colonial and antebellum American South.  Her publications include The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston (University of North Carolina Press. 2005), Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade (University of Chicago, 2011), and Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s University (University of Virginia Press, 2019). Her essays appear in a number of peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, exhibition catalogs, and other publications.