Visiting Scholars Program

This program offers an academic home for scholars visiting the city from around the world. The Midlo Center offers workspace, research direction, and library and database access. The Center can also connect visitors to local archival collections and scholars who may be of more specific help to their work, thus saving valuable research time. The Center also serves as a space for lectures and workshops where Visiting Scholars can present on-going projects.

Associates Program

The Associates program provides local researchers with access to library collections and databases as well as to an active network of scholars and researchers. The Center also serves as a space for lectures and workshops where Associates can present on-going projects.

Current Midlo Visiting Scholars

Greg A. Beaman, ABD
Georgetown University
Area of expertise: Atlantic world, urban history, slavery, real estate
New Orleans research interests: Built environment of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Jessica Dauterive, Ph.D. Candidate
George Mason University
Area of expertise: 20th Century US, Cultural History, Digital Public History
New Orleans research interests: Music, Tourism, Cajun identity in South Louisiana
[email protected]

Philip Hayward, Ph.D.
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Area of expertise: Cultural geography, popular culture, folklore
New Orleans research interests: New Orleans waterways and communities living around them, popular cultural explorations of heritage themes
[email protected]

William I. Horne, Ph.D.
Villanova University
Area of expertise: Black labor, activism, and abolition
[email protected]

Tiara Raven Marie Jackson, Ph.D. Candidate
Emory University

Ryan Joyce, Ph.D.
Area of expertise: Francophone circum-Caribbean Literature and History, twentieth and twenty-first-century French and Francophone Literature, Haiti and Haitian Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
New Orleans research interests: nineteenth-century Francophone Literature from New Orleans, Marronnage, Les comptes-rendues de l'Athénée louisianais
[email protected]

Patrick Maney, Ph.D.
Professor of History (Retired) Boston College
Area of expertise: United States political history
New Orleans research interests: Hale and Lindy Boggs and the politics of race in South Louisiana, 1940-1990
[email protected]; [email protected]

Kevin McQueeney, Ph.D. 
Nicholls State University
Area of expertise: History of Medicine, Health Care, and Disease; African American History; Urban History
New Orleans research interests: Development of the racialized health care system; Racial health disparities; Black health activism; Flint Goodridge Hospital; Parks and recreation history

Nathalie Rech, Ph.D. Candidate
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Area of expertise: African American women's incarceration during Jim Crow
New Orleans research interests: African American history, white supremacy history, prisons, criminalization, women's history, Storyville and sex workers
[email protected]

Greg Robinson, Ph.D.
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Area of Expertise: 20th Century United States History
New Orleans research interests: New Orleans, Japan, and Japanese Americans

Sarah H. Salter, Ph.D.
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Midlo Associates

Janet Allured, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of History, University of Arkansas
Retired Professor of History, Director of Women’s Studies, McNeese State University  
Area of expertise: Southern Methodist women's history, 1920-2020; Second Wave Feminism in Louisiana
[email protected]
[email protected]

Caryn Cossé Bell, Ph.D.
Professor of History Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Lowell
New Orleans research interests: nineteenth-century Creole New Orleans
[email protected]

Robert H. Cataliotti, Ph.D.
Coppin State University
Area of expertise: African American music and literature
New Orleans research interests: music, culture, history, Middle Passage