Margot Mifflin

A frequent women’s history month speaker, Margot Mifflin is the author of the definitive feminist history of tattoo art, Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo, which The New York Times called “delicious social history.” Her book The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman, tells the story of a 19th century pioneer who was raised by Mohave Indians. Mifflin has appeared as a lecturer and keynote speaker at colleges, universities and museums nationally, including Barnard College, Parsons School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Los Angeles MOCA and The Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. She appeared in MSNBC’s documentary “Women and Tattoo” (2001) and CNN’s “Women of the Ink” (1998) and has spoken about her books on The Katie [Couric] Show and The Leonard Lopate Show (NPR/WNYC). Mifflin has served as an advisor on tattoo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, The New York Historical Society, and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. An English professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, she also teaches arts journalism at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. Mifflin is currently writing a cultural history of the Miss America Pageant, an excerpt of which recently ran in Vice.com.

For more about Margot and her works, go to http://www.margotmifflin.com/