Emily Morgan
PhD Candidate: American Art History
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About
Emily Morgan is a current PhD candidate researching modern and contemporary American art history. She employs Critical Regionalism and Critical Race Theory to consider the social-political frameworks of American Art and visual culture. Her current research considers the Southern Gothic genre as regional modernism. She has past experience working in museums, local art centers, and archives.
Service to Community
Co-Chair of Art History Graduate Student Association Symposium “A Planetary Art History: Critical Engagements with Boundaries and Land,” 2024
Education
MA Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2023
BA Art History and English, University of Alabama, 2021
Selected Presentations
“Sowing the Seeds: Carroll Cloar and Intergenerational Racial Hauntings,” Popular Culture/ American Culture Association of the South, Huntsville, AL, October 9, 2026.
“New Orleans in the Anthropocene: Rontherin Ratliff and the Ethics of Salvage,” 40th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium, Tallahassee, FL, March 1-2, 2024.
“Dismantling the Bible Belt: Religious Diversity of the American South,” The National Society of the Colonial Dames Presentation, Tuscaloosa, AL, November 10, 2020.
“Those Who Challenge the Southern Belle: The Hidden Face of Alabama Sex Work,” Hunter Museum Undergraduate Symposium We The People, Chattanooga, Tennessee, March 29, 2020. [Canceled due to Covid-19 Pandemic]