Postdoctoral Fellow in Islam in North America at Stanford University
About
Alaina Morgan is a historian of Islam in the African Diaspora. Specifically, Dr. Morgan's work investigates the intersection between race, religion, and political life among Muslims of African descent in the contemporary Americas and the larger Atlantic world. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Islam in North America at Stanford University in the Department of Religious Studies, the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.
In addition to her research, Dr. Morgan also teaches classes on Islam and Muslims in the Americas with a focus on race and religion, religion and politics, and empire and decolonization. Her work has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, the American Historical Association, the Marcus Garvey Memorial Foundation, New York University, and Stanford University. In 2017, Dr. Morgan received a PhD from New York University's Department of History and in 2006, received a JD from Columbia University School of Law.
Current Work:
Alaina Morgan's current book project explores the ways that Islam and Blackness were used by Muslims in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Anglophone Caribbean to form the basis of transnational anti-colonial and anti-imperial political networks.
Research Area Keyword(s):
African diaspora, Islam, Islamic studies, African-American, Afro-Caribbean
