{{Short description|American historian (born 1966)}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = | name = Jennifer L. Morgan | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = Morgan in 2024 | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = Jennifer Lyle Morgan | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1966}} | birth_place = Syracuse, New York, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | nationality = | citizenship = | other_names = | occupation = | period = | known_for = | title = | boards = | spouse = Herman L. Bennett | partner = | children = | parents = John P. Morgan and Claudia B. Morgan | relatives = | awards = MacArthur Fellowship<br />Frederick Douglass Book Prize | website = | education = | alma_mater = Oberlin College (B.A.)<br />Duke University (Ph.D.)<ref name=":1" /> | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences = | era = | discipline = | sub_discipline = | workplaces = New York University | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''Jennifer Lyle Morgan''' (born 1966) is an American historian of United States history, focusing on 16th and 17th century African-American history and the development of slavery in the Atlantic World through the lens of gender. She is a professor of History in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department of History at New York University.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Jennifer L Morgan |url=https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/jennifer-morgan.html |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=as.nyu.edu}}</ref> She is a 2024 MacArthur Fellow.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2024-10-01 |title=Jennifer L. Morgan |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2024/jennifer-l-morgan |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=MacArthur Foundation |language=en}}</ref>
== Life == Morgan graduated from Oberlin College in 1986 with a BA in Third World Studies, a self-designed major.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2024-10-01 |title=Historian Jennifer L. Morgan '86 Wins MacArthur Fellowship |url=https://www.oberlin.edu/news/historian-jennifer-l-morgan-86-wins-macarthur-fellowship |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=Oberlin College and Conservatory |language=en}}</ref> She has credited much of her later academic success to Adrienne Lash Jones, Oberlin's third tenured Black professor and the first tenured Black professor in the Africana studies department.<ref name=":2" /> Morgan earned her PhD in history from Duke University in 1995.<ref name=":0" /> Her dissertation was titled ''Laboring women: Enslaved women, reproduction, and slavery in Barbados and South Carolina, 1650–1750''.<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Morgan |first=Jennifer Lyle |title=Laboring women: Enslaved women, reproduction, and slavery in Barbados and South Carolina, 1650–1750 |date=1995-09-15 |publisher=Duke University |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/12d8af70f962db25f797ec6ec19ff007/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y |id={{ProQuest|<!-- Add ProQuest data here -->}}}}</ref>
Morgan's first book, ''Laboring Women'', was published in 2004. It discusses the experiences of enslaved women in colonial Barbados and South Carolina, including how enslavers exploited the reproduction of enslaved women to grow their labor force.<ref name=":1" />
Her second book, ''Reckoning with Slavery'' (2021), is an analysis of accounting practices by enslavers.<ref name=":1" /> It won both the Mary Nickliss Prize in Women's and/or Gender History from the Organization of American Historians and the Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.<ref name=":2" />
Morgan appeared in the 2023 Netflix documentary ''Stamped from the Beginning''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-10-30 |title=Stamped from the Beginning Examines America's False Narratives About Race |url=https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/stamped-from-the-beginning-release-date-cast-news |website=Netflix}}</ref>
As of 2024, Morgan is working on a third book, ''The Eve of Slavery,'' which will examine "African women in seventeenth-century North America," including the story of Elizabeth Key, an enslaved woman who successfully sued for her freedom.<ref name=":1" />
Morgan lives in New York City.<ref name=":0" /> She is currently a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Allen |first=Brittany |date=2024-04-23 |title=Please welcome the 2024–25 class of Cullman fellows. |url=https://lithub.com/please-welcome-the-2024-25-class-of-cullman-fellows/ |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Publications ==
=== Books === * ''Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Oh |first=Elisa |date=2004 |title=A review of "Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery" by Jennifer L. Morgan. |url=https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/2336ba0b-f3e9-49c3-b81e-42822b354687/content|website=oaktrust.library.tamu.edu |journal= |pages=226–230}}</ref> * ''Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in America'' (University of Illinois Press, 2016), co-editor * ''Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic'' (Duke University Press, 2021)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jennings |first=Matthew |date=November 2022 |title=Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/d97b3a5693f7d6da9f8bb7fe088b8aec/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=42222 |journal=The Journal of Southern History |location=Houston |volume=88 |issue=4 |pages=754–755|doi=10.1353/soh.2022.0167 |id={{ProQuest|<!-- Add ProQuest data here -->}}}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fielder |first=Brigitte |date=2023 |title=Review of Reckoning with Slavery, by Jennifer L. Morgan |url=http://doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.13.2.1380 |journal=ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 |volume=13 |issue=2|doi=10.5038/2157-7129.13.2.1380 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pestana |first=Carla Gardina |date=2023-04-06 |title=Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic, by Jennifer L. Morgan |journal=New West Indian Guide |volume=97 |issue=1–2 |pages=142–143 |doi=10.1163/22134360-09701033 |issn=2213-4360|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dantas |first=Mariana L. R. |date=2022-04-21 |title=Jennifer L. Morgan, Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/jeah/12/1/article-p105_012.xml |journal=Journal of Early American History |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=105–107 |doi=10.1163/18770703-12010001 |issn=1877-0223|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Livesay |first=Daniel |date=October 2022 |title=Book Review: Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic by Jennifer L. Morgan |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03631990221116497 |journal=Journal of Family History |language=en |volume=47 |issue=4 |pages=491–493 |doi=10.1177/03631990221116497 |issn=0363-1990|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Banton |first=Caree A. |date=November 2022 |title=Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic by Jennifer L. Morgan |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/869014 |journal=Journal of Southern History |language=en |volume=88 |issue=4 |pages=754–755 |doi=10.1353/soh.2022.0167 |issn=2325-6893|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rosenthal |first=Joshua M. |date=2023-10-26 |title=Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic, by Jennifer L. Morgan |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/jgs/8/2-3/article-p352_13.xml |journal=Journal of Global Slavery |volume=8 |issue=2–3 |pages=352–354 |doi=10.1163/2405836X-00802005 |issn=2405-8351|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
=== Articles === * {{Cite journal |last=Morgan |first=Jennifer L. |date=1997 |title="Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder": Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500–1770 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2953316 |journal=The William and Mary Quarterly |volume=54 |issue=1 |pages=167–192 |doi=10.2307/2953316 |jstor=2953316 |issn=0043-5597|url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite journal |last=Morgan |first=Jennifer L. |date=2016-10-01 |title=Accounting for "The Most Excruciating Torment": Gender, Slavery, and Trans-Atlantic Passages |url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-the-present/article/6/2/184/153282/Accounting-for-The-Most-Excruciating-Torment |journal=History of the Present |language=en |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=184–207 |doi=10.5406/historypresent.6.2.0184 |issn=2159-9785|url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite journal |last=Morgan |first=Jennifer L. |date=2018-03-01 |title=Partus sequitur ventrem |url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/article/22/1%20(55)/1/133813/Partus-sequitur-ventremLaw-Race-and-Reproduction |journal=Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism |language=en |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=1–17 |doi=10.1215/07990537-4378888 |issn=0799-0537|url-access=subscription }}
=== Chapters === * {{Cite book |last=Morgan |first=Jennifer L. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3D9FE-UfYxEC&dq=Laboring+Women+morgan&pg=PA145 |title=American Studies: An Anthology |year=2009|publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-4051-1351-9 |editor-last=Radway |editor-first=Janice A. |language=en |chapter="Women's Sweat": Gender and Agricultural Labor in the Atlantic World |editor-last2=Gaines |editor-first2=Kevin |editor-last3=Shank |editor-first3=Barry |editor-last4=Von Eschen |editor-first4=Penny}} * {{Cite book |last=Morgan |first=Jennifer L. |title=The Routledge history of slavery |date=2011 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-46689-9 |editor-last=Heuman |editor-first=Gad J. |series=The Routledge histories |location=London; New York |chapter=Gender and Family Life |editor-last2=Burnard |editor-first2=Trevor}} * {{Cite book |editor-last1=Willis |editor-first1=Deborah |last=Morgan |first=Jennifer L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VjeMDwAAQBAJ&dq=Laboring+Women+morgan&pg=PT150 |title=Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History |editor-last2=Toscano |editor-first2=Ellyn |editor-last3=Nelson |editor-first3=Kalia Brooks |year=2019 |publisher=Open Book Publishers |isbn=978-1-78374-568-5 |language=en}}
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