FRANCESCA MORGAN. specializes in the history of women and gender in the United States as well as the general history of the United States since 1800. She received her B.A. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She taught at Rutgers University at Newark and at the University of North Texas before coming to NEIU in 2003 as a visiting lecturer, and starting as an assistant professor at NEIU in 2006. She is the author of Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America (University of North Carolina Press, 2005). She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Americans and Ancestry: A History” (a history of genealogy since 1800). She received a grant in 2006-2007 from the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium to fund research on this project. She has presented papers at the meetings of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, and the Mormon History Association.
