Jennifer L. Morgan

History of the Black Atlantic World; Comparative Slavery, Gender and sexuality studies.

Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, Association for the Study of the World Wide African Diaspora; Association of Black Women Historians

Jennifer L. Morgan is Professor of History in the department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University where she also serves as Chair.  She is the author of Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) and the co-editor of Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in America (University of Illinois Press, 2016).  Her research examines the intersections of gender and race in in the Black Atlantic world.  Her most recent journal articles include “Accounting for ‘The Most Excruciating Torment’: Trans-Atlantic Passages” in History of the Present and “Archives and Histories of Racial Capitalism” in Social Text.  In addition to her archival work as an historian, Morgan has published a range of essays on race, gender, and the process of “doing history,” most notably “Experiencing Black Feminism” in Deborah Gray White’s edited volume Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (2007). She is currently at work on a project that considers colonial numeracy, racism and the rise of the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the seventeenth-century English Atlantic world tentatively entitled “Accounting for the Women in Slavery.”  Morgan teaches courses on the history of slavery, on race and reproduction, and on the comparative feminist theory and praxis.  

ARTICLES

“Accounting for ‘The Most Excruciating Torment:’ Trans-Atlantic Passages,” History of the Present 6 (Fall, 2016): 184-207.

“Periodizing Problems: Race and Gender in the History of the Early Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic 32 (Summer, 2016): 351-57.

“Archives and Histories of Racial Capitalism: An Afterword,” Social Text 33 (2015): 153-161.

“Gender and Slavery, Life and Death on Atlantic Plantations,” William and Mary Quarterly 72 (October, 2015): 676-79.

“Gender and Family Life,” in The Slavery Reader, ed. Trevour Bernard and Gad Heuman (New York: Routledge, 2010).

“Experiencing Black Feminism,” in Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower, ed. Deborah Gray White, (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2007).

“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.