The Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University
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Jennifer Morgan

Jennifer L. Morgan

Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis
Ph.D. 1995 (History), Duke University; B.A. 1986, Oberlin College.

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Areas of Research/Interest: Major Interests Early African American History, Comparative Slavery, Histories of Racial Ideology.

External Affiliations: American Historical Association, Berkshire Conference of Women's Historians, McNeil Center for Early American Studies.

Select Publications:

Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in New World Slavery (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)

“Sex, Race, and the Colonial Project,” with Kirsten Fischer, in The William and Mary Quarterly, 60 (January 2003): 197-99.

“Slavery and the Slave Trade, 1600-1760,” in A Companion to American Women’s History, Nancy Hewitt ed. (Malden, Mass and London: Blackwell, 2002).

“This is ‘Mines’: Slavery and Reproduction in Colonial Barbados & South Carolina,” in Money, Trade, and Power: The Evolution of Colonial South Carolina’s Plantation Society, Jack P. Greene, Rosemary Brana-Shute, and Randy Sparks eds. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000).

“‘Some Could Suckle Over Their Shoulder’: Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500-1770,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, LIV (January 1997): 167-92. 

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