Faculty and Staff

Michelle Scott, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Cornell University)
Professor Scott joined the History Department in Fall 2002. She teaches and studies race and ethnicity in the American experience with emphasis on African American history, black musical culture, and women's studies. Professor Scott has contributed to the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project volumes 2-4 and the forthcoming Columbia Guide to African American History, 1939-Present. Professor Scott's new book, The Realm of a Blues Empress: Blues Culture and Bessie Smith in Black Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1880-1923 will be published in Summer, 2008. Professor Michelle Scott was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty for 2005-2006. Professor Scott is also an affiliate faculty member in Gender and Women's Studies.

Office: 716 Administration Building
Telephone: 410-455-2035
Email: mscott@umbc.edu | Office Hrs