FRANCESCA
MORGAN teaches
U.S.
history since 1800, particularly on the histories of women, gender, and
sexuality. 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 “How Genealogy
Became American, 1800-2000.” She
received a grant in 2006-2007 from the New England Regional Fellowship
Consortium to fund research on this project. She has delivered 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.
With Professor Joan Marie Johnson, she is the founding co-organizer of
the Newberry Seminar on Women and Gender.
