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Jennifer L. Morgan is a Silver Professor of History in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Her work focuses on the intersections of gender, race, and capitalism in the Black Atlantic World. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Duke University (1995) and a B.A. in Third World Studies from Oberlin College (1986).
Her research explores comparative slavery, gender studies, and sexuality studies, with notable publications like Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic (2021) and Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery (2004). Recent articles include explorations of legal frameworks in colonial slavery and trans-Atlantic archival histories.
Morgan’s current projects examine the emergence of 'private life' in the English Atlantic world and the legal battle of Elizabeth Key in 17th-century Virginia. She has served leadership roles in organizations such as the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and the Association of Black Women Historians.
Her awards include the Frederick Douglass Prize and Mary Nickliss Prize. Though no grants or advisees are explicitly listed, her work spans interdisciplinary collaborations in Black studies, gender theory, and archival methodologies.
