Participant Info
- First Name
- R. Isabela
- Last Name
- Morales
- Country
- United States
- State
- NJ New Jersey
- rmorales@911memorial.org
- Affiliation
- National September 11 Memorial & Museum
- Website URL
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/risabelamorales/
- Keywords
- 19th century, American West, American South, Emancipation, Family, Higher Education, Public History, Race, Slavery, Museums
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
R. Isabela Morales, Ph.D., is a public historian with expertise in American social history. She is currently the Manager of Exhibition Development at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York. She was the Project Manager and Editor of the Princeton & Slavery Project from 2016-2019, and a researcher and contributing writer from 2013-2016.
Morales completed her Ph.D. in History at Princeton University in 2019. She received her M.A. in History from Princeton in 2014, and a B.A. in History and American Studies from the University of Alabama in 2012. Her current book project is a multi-generational narrative history of one African American family’s migration from Alabama across the American West during the 19th century.
- Recent Publications
“The Riot of 1846,” The Princeton & Slavery Project.
“Jonathan Edwards Jr.,” Princeton & Slavery Project.
“‘The Celebrated Alexander Dumas Watkins’: Princeton’s First Black Instructor,” Princeton & Slavery Project.
“Marcus Marsh and Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia,” Princeton & Slavery Project.
“Princeton’s Slaveholding Presidents,” The Princeton & Slavery Project.
“Slavery at the President’s House,” The Princeton & Slavery Project.
- Media Coverage
- @isabelawrites
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Emancipation, Family, Higher Ed, Museums, Public History, Race, Slavery
