Mitchell Snay

Mitchell Snay was born in Chicago and educated at the University of Michigan and Brandeis University, where he received his PhD in the history of American civilization. He is the author of Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South (1993), Fenians, Freedman and Southern Whites: Race and Nationality in the Era of Reconstruction (2007) and Horace Greeley and the Politics of Reform in Nineteenth-Century America (2011). Dr. Snay was the coeditor of Religion and the Antebellum Debate over Slavery (1998).

Mitchell Snay held the William T. Utter/Clyde E. Williams Professor of History at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He is now Professor Emeritus.