Participant Info
- First Name
- Francesca
- Last Name
- Morgan
- Country
- United States
- State
- IL Illinois
- f-morgan@neiu.edu
- Affiliation
- Northeastern Illinois University
- Website URL
- https://www.neiu.edu/academics/college-of-arts-and-sciences/departments/history/faculty-and-staff (scroll down to Morgan)
- Keywords
- history of genealogy, African Americans, white supremacy, Mormonism, Native Americans, women, gender hierarchies
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
I earned my Ph.D. in U.S. history from Columbia University in 1998. Since then I have taught history for more than twenty years, first at the University of North Texas and then at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. I turned my dissertation on the Daughters of the American Revolution into the book Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America (University of North Carolina Press, 2005). Since then I have published shorter pieces toward my second big project, on genealogists and the persistence of social hierarchies in U.S. history. My book manuscript, “Nation of Descendants: The Politics of Americans’ Genealogy Practices,” is currently under review.
- Recent Publications
“’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?: The Embourgeoisement of Genealogy, and Genealogy’s Making of the Bourgeoisie.” In The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Sven Beckert and Julia Rosenbaum, 135-52. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
“Lineage as Capital: Genealogy in Antebellum New England.” New England Quarterly 83, no. 1 (June 2010): 250-282.
My numerous book reviews include these recent ones:
Big Sister: Feminism, Conservatism, and Conspiracy in the Heartland, by Erin M. Kempker (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2018). Journal of American History 106, no. 3 (December 2019): 835.
The Women: A Family Story, by Kerry William Bate (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016). Mormon Studies Review 6 (2019): 158-62.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Family, Gender, Libraries & Archives, Public History, Race, Religion, Sexuality, Women
