Alaina Morgan

Alaina Morgan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Southern California's Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Her research bridges intellectual, religious, and political history with a focus on the African Diaspora.

• African-American History
• African Diaspora History
• Islam and Muslims in the Americas
• Modernist Islamic Thought
• Black Intellectual History
• Mass Incarceration
• Urban History
• Black Political Movements

Professor Morgan's work explores the intersections of religious identity, racial formation, and transnational activism in the 20th-century Atlantic world. She analyzes how Islamic thought shaped anti-colonial movements and grassroots organizing across the United States, Caribbean, and Europe.