Participant Info
- First Name
- R. Isabela
- Last Name
- Morales
- Country
- United States
- State
- NJ New Jersey
- risabela.morales@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- National September 11 Memorial & Museum; Princeton University
- 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, Ph.D., is an historian with expertise in the 19th-century United States, African American history, and public history. She has been involved in the Princeton & Slavery Project since 2013, serving as the Editor and Project Manager from 2016 to the present. She is currently the Manager of Exhibition Development at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York.
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 first book, forthcoming from Oxford University Press, 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
