Participant Info
- First Name
- Isabela
- Last Name
- Morales
- Country
- United States
- State
- risabela.morales@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum
- Website URL
- http://www.risabelamorales.com/
- Keywords
- 19th century, American South, American West, Emancipation, Family, Higher Education, Museums, Public History, Race, Slavery
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
R. Isabela Morales is an award-winning author and historian. Her first book, Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom, was published by Oxford University Press in 2022. Among other honors, it won the 2023 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, the foremost international book award for the history of slavery and abolition, and the 2023 Tom Watson Brown Book Award, one of the most prestigious book prizes in Civil War history. Dr. Morales served as the founding editor of The Princeton & Slavery Project, Princeton University’s ground-breaking public history initiative, from 2017-2024. She is currently the Education and Exhibit Manager at the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum, Central New Jersey’s first dedicated Black history museum.
Dr. Morales received her Ph.D. in history from Princeton University in 2019. She completed an M.A. in history from Princeton in 2014 and a B.A. in history and American Studies from The University of Alabama in 2012, where she first began the research that would become Happy Dreams of Liberty. She is currently working on her second book.
- Recent Publications
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022).
“An enslaved family and the question of generational wealth in the United States,” OUPblog, Oxford University Press.
“100-year-old Love Story Uncovered in a Central Jersey Attic,” Giving Voice, Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum.
“A Great Physician Had Help From a Freed Slave,” Princeton Alumni Weekly.
“Jonathan Edwards Jr.,” Princeton & Slavery Project.
“‘The Celebrated Alexander Dumas Watkins’: Princeton’s First Black Instructor,” Princeton & Slavery Project.
“Slavery at the President’s House,” The Princeton & Slavery Project.
“Princeton’s Slaveholding Presidents,” The Princeton & Slavery Project.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Civil War, American Revolution, American Founding Era, Emancipation, Family, Higher Ed, Museums, Public History, Race, Slavery
