Francesca Morgan Ph.D.
History
Professor and NEIU-UPI Secretary
Office:
LWH 4080
Phone:
(773) 442-5609
Email:
f-morgan@neiu.edu
Office Hours:
By appointment
CV:
CV.docx
Country:
United States
Expertise
U.S. History since 1800; Family, Gender, and Sexuality
Hist 214: United States History to 1877
ZHIS 214: Honors United States History to 1877
Hist 215: United States History, 1877 - Present
Hist 300W: The Historian's Craft
Hist 324: The Civil War and Reconstruction Eras, 1848-1877
Hist 326: The U.S. in Depression & World War, 1933-1945
Hist 338: Women in American History
Hist 339A: Sexuality & Intimacy in America
Hist 393: Capstone Seminar in History
Hist 433: Readings in Nineteenth-Century America (Graduate Colloquium)
Hist 443: Seminar in Nineteenth-Century America (Graduate)
Research Interests
Historical memory, identity, and inheritance in the U.S.
Education
Columbia University
History, Ph.D., 1998
Selected Publications
A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History (book). Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
"'My Furthest-Back Person': Roots and the History of Black Genealogy.” In Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory, edited by Erica L. Ball and Kellie Carter Jackson, 63-79. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017.
“A Noble Pursuit?: Bourgeois America’s Uses of Lineage.” In The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century, eds. Sven Beckert and Julia Rosenbaum, 135-152. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
“Lineage as Capital: Genealogy in Antebellum New England.” New England Quarterly 83, no. 1 (June 2010): 250-282.
Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America (book). Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.