PERSONAL DATA
Email: maribelmorey@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Princeton University, History, 2013.
J.D. New York University School of Law, 2006 (Articles Editor, NYU Law Review).
B.A. University of Notre Dame, 2003 (magna cum laude), Political Science & Romance Languages and Literatures.
Global Academic Exchanges: Sciences Po Paris, 2002; University of Cambridge, 2006; Stockholm University, 2011-12.
APPOINTMENTS
2020- Founding Executive Director, Miami Institute for the Social Sciences, Miami, FL, USA.
2019-2020 Inaugural Visiting International Professor of Philanthropy, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College (ESBH), Stockholm, SWEDEN.
2013-2020 Assistant Professor, History Department, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA.
2012-2013 Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History, New York University School of Law, New York, NY, USA.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
20th century U.S. history; History of U.S. philanthropy; African American Intellectual History; History of the social sciences; U.S. legal history.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming October 19, 2021).
The second book, in progress, details when and why elite foundations such as the Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford foundations became particularly invested in the U.S. civil rights movement.
Journal Articles and Articles in Edited Volumes:
“Power of the Purse: How ‘the Philanthropic North’ Has Helped Determine Which Individuals, Groups, and Ideas in the Black Freedom Struggle Will Thrive Nationally,” in In Between and Across: Legal History Without Boundaries (eds. Jacob Katz Cogan and Kenneth Mack) (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
“W.E.B. Du Bois’s International Lens on Modern US Philanthropy and His Fleeting Hopes for Reform,” in The Oxford Handbook of W.E.B. Du Bois (eds. Aldon Morris, Walter Allen, Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Dan S. Green, Marcus Hunter, Karida Brown, and Michael Schwartz) (New York: Oxford University Press) (available online June 2022).
“Further Analysis of Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma (1944) as a Swedish Text,” Humanity Journal (spring 2017).
“An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (Gunnar Myrdal, 1944).” America in the World, 1776 to the Present: A Supplement to the Dictionary of American History. Ed. Edward J. Blum. Vol. 1. Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2016. 57-60.
“Swedish Roots to Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma (1944),” in Race, Ethnicity, and Welfare States: An American Dilemma?, eds. Sonya Michel, Pauli Kettunen, and Klaus Petersen (Northhampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015).
“Reassessing Hannah Arendt’s ‘Reflections on Little Rock’ (1959),” Law, Culture, and the Humanities 10(1) (Feb. 2014).
“A Transatlantic Perspective on Philanthropy and Charity in the Swedish Welfare Model,” in Non-profit och välfärden [The Nonprofit Sector and the Welfare State], eds. Kurt Almqvist, Viveca Ax:son Johnson, and Lars Trägårdh (Stockholm, Sweden: Ax:son Johnson Foundation Press, 2013).
“The Civil Commitment of State Dependent Minors: Resonating Discourses that Leave Her Heterosexuality and His Homosexuality Vulnerable to Scrutiny,” New York University Law Review 81 (2006).
Encyclopedia Entries:
Karl, Barry (1927-2010), historian. American National Biography (2019).
Popular Press Articles:
“Behind the Scenes of White Philanthropy,” HistPhil (Nov. 29, 2021).
“Introducing HistPhil’s Forum on Waqfs,” HistPhil (Sept. 23, 2020).
“Updating HistPhil’s Reading List,” HistPhil (June 12, 2020).
“A Grantee’s Freedom and Independence,” HistPhil (Oct. 2019).
“Rockefeller, Carnegie, and the SSRC’s Focus on Race in the 1920s and 1930s,” Items: Insights from the Social Sciences (January 2019).
“Frank Capra’s Formula for Taming American Capitalism,” Zócalo Public Square (Dec. 2018).
“Choosing between Financial Viability and a Political Voice: A History of the NAACP’s Tax Status,” HistPhil (Nov. 2018).
“In a Democracy, Is That Really a Social Problem?,” HistPhil (Sept. 2018).
“Sweden as Exemplar of Scientific Planning Philanthropy,” HistPhil (March 2018).
“Julius Rosenwald was Not a Hero,” HistPhil (June 2017).
“Gunnar Myrdal in the Latest Issue of Humanity,” HistPhil (March 2017).
“Scientific Knowledge on Minority Groups during the Trump Era,” HistPhil (Feb. 2017).
“Will Ford’s Equality Initiative be Radical or More of the Same?,” HistPhil (July 2015).
“Obergefell (2015): A Time for Reflection on the Role of Philanthropy in a Democracy,” HistPhil (June 2015).
“Increasing the Visibility of Philanthropy among U.S. Historians,” HistPhil (June 2015).
“Are Americans Really Champions of Racial Equality?,” The Atlantic Online (April 2015).
“The Rockefeller Foundation’s Hand in Hobby Lobby,” Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) (August 2014).
“Moving Toward Multi-Dimensional Democracy,” Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) (July 2014).
“Would Philanthropies Today Fund W.E.B. Du Bois’s Encyclopedia Africana?,” The Atlantic Online (May 2014).
“The Right Way and the Wrong Way to Privatize Science,” The Atlantic Online (May 2014).
“Philanthropists and the White House: Who’s the Boss?,” The Atlantic Online (May 2014).
“How Should Philanthropies Respond to Emergencies?,” The Atlantic Online (May 2014).
“Myrdals amerikanska arv,” Axess Magasin (Feb. 2013).
Book Reviews:
Review of Eurowhiteness: culture, empire and race in the European Project. By Hans Kundnani. International Affairs 100(1) (January 2024).
Review of The wrath to come: Gone with the wind and the lies America tells. By Sarah Churchwell. International Affairs 99(5) (Sept. 2023).
Review of White freedom: the racial history of an idea. By Tyler Stovall. International Affairs 98(6) (Nov. 2022).
Review of For-Profit Philanthropy: Elite Power and the Threat of Limited Liability Companies, Donor-Advised Funds, and Strategic Corporate Giving. By Dana Brakman Reiser and Steven A. Dean. Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) (Spring 2023).
Review of Sam Klug, “The Phelps-Stokes Fund and the Institutional Imagination of Black Internationalism, 1941-1945,” H-Diplo (February 23, 2023).
Review of Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires. By Shomari Wills. HistPhil (2018).
Review of Forging a Laboring Race: The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination. By Paul R. D. Lawrie. Journal of Social History (2017).
Review of Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability. By Tiffany Willoughby-Herard. HistPhil (2016).
Review of Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Social Science by David L. Seim, Voluntary Sector Review (2016).
Review of Policy Patrons: Philanthropy, Education Reform, and the Politics of Influence by Megan E. Tompkins-Stange. HistPhil (2016).
Review of No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy by Linsey McGoey, Stanford Social Innovation Review (Winter 2016).
Review of Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism by Karen Ferguson, History: Reviews of New Books (2016).
“A Reconsideration of An American Dilemma,” Reviews in American History 40 (Dec. 2012).
Review of Racial Justice in the Age of Obama by Roy L. Brooks, Journal of American Ethnic History 32 (Fall 2012), 113-115.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2019-2020 Inaugural Visiting International Professor of Philanthropy, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College (ESBH), Stockholm, Sweden.
2016-2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, Carnegie Corporation of New York (providing "support for high-caliber scholarship that applies fresh perspectives from the humanities and the social sciences to some of the most pressing issues of our times.").
2018 Clemson University Research, Scholarship and Artistic Achievement Award (recognizing faculty who have achieved the highest levels of national and international recognition).
2017 Clemson University Board of Trustees Award for Excellence (honored by the University's trustees for having been named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for exemplifying "progressive thought, innovative research, and capable leadership.").
Nominated by Princeton University’s History Department Faculty, Princeton Alumni Council’s Emerging Alumni Scholar Award (One graduate student from each department is selected on the merits of his/her career at Princeton, the excellence of the dissertation, and his/her ability to effectively communicate scholarship to a broad public outside of the discipline).
Fulbright Grant and American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship, August 2011-June 2012: Sociology Department, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Princeton University Society of Woodrow Wilson Scholars, Graduate Fellowship, 2009-2011 (full research support to a small society of scholars in the social sciences at Princeton. The program was directed by Princeton psychology Prof. John Darley).
Princeton University President’s Fellowship, 2006-2009 (full research support).
NYU Law Leonard M. Henkin Prize for Best Note on the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, Spring 2006.
NYU-Mainzer Fellowship in Gender Studies, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, Cambridge, England, Lent Term 2006.
University of Notre Dame Paul Bartholomew Prize for Best Senior Honors Thesis in Political Theory, Spring 2003.
GRANTS
2018, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Grant, sponsorship of “The History and Future of Political Economy” Workshop, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University, Spring 2019.
2016-2017 Faculty Research Development Program Grant, College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, Summer 2016.
2016-2017 Humanities Advancement Board, Individual Research Grant, College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, Summer 2016.
2014-2015 Faculty Research Development Program Grant, College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, Summer 2014.
Swedish Institute Grant for Swedish Language Study, Royal Society for Swedish Culture Abroad Program in Billströmska Folkhögskolan, Tjörn, Sweden, 2010.
Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) grant-in-aid, Sleepy Hollow, New York, 2010.
Princeton University History Department, Philip A. Rollins Prize, 2009-2011.
Princeton University Center for African American Studies Dissertation Award, 2008.
Princeton University Program in American Studies Graduate Summer Research Prize, 2008.
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) Dissertation Research Award, 2008.
New York University School of Law Summer Grant for Research, 2005.
Equal Justice America Fellowship, Summer Fellow, Lawyers for Children America, Inc., a legal advocacy organization for foster care children in Miami-Dade County.
University of Notre Dame Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Grant, Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand, Paris, France, 2003.
PRESENTATIONS
Linnaeus University (Linnéuniversitetet), Kalmar, Sweden, LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, “Racial Social Democracy and the Swedish Welfare State” (spring 2023).
Law & Society Association Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Panelist on “Philanthropy, Law and Social Change: Producing and Regulating Philanthropy” (spring 2023).
Book Seminar, Philanthropic Domination by Álvaro Morcillo Laiz, Harnack-Haus, Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany (spring 2023).
Iliff School of Theology, Vincent Harding Day, Panelist Discussant, Denver, Colorado (spring 2023).
Penn State University, Guest Lecture, “Globalization and Lifelong Learning,” course taught by Dr. José Cossa (spring 2023).
International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, Montreal, Canada, (spring 2023).
Tufts University, 2022-2023 Education for Policy Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) “Power and Prejudice: Race and International Relations” Symposium, (spring 2023).
University of Tennessee Knoxville, Lecture: “Confronting White Anglo-American Dominance in the Social Sciences: The Case of Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma,” (fall 2022).
Tufts University, 2022-2023 Education for Policy Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) Colloquium, “White Philanthropy and the Making of a White World Order,” (fall 2022).
Seattle Arts & Lectures, “Maribel Morey and Megan Ming Francis on White Philanthropy,” (fall 2022).
Southeast Regional Hispanic Leadership Summit, Panel on “Latina Leaders: Closing the Gap,” (summer 2022).
American Political History Conference, “Roundtable: Philanthropy and Power,” (summer 2022).
Public-Private Interests Workshop: New Directions in Multi-Disciplinary Scholarship,” (summer 2022).
Iliff School of Theology, “An Evening Lecture— Maribel Morey: White Philanthropy,” (spring 2022).
Panel on “National, Regional, and Global ‘Public Goods’ in the World,” “Reimagining Global Public Goods in the 21st Century” Workshops, Miami Institute for the Social Sciences and the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS) at Queen Mary, University of London (spring 2022).
Panel on “America, Britain and White World Order,” “US Foreign Policy Deconstructed” Webinar, City, University of London (spring 2022).
New York University Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD), “White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order (UNC Press, 2021): A discussion with author Maribel Morey, Executive Director of the Miami Institute for the Social Sciences and Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and Coplan Chair of Social Sciences, Brandeis University” (spring 2022).
Lilly School of Philanthropy, IUPUI, “Madam C.J. Walker and Andrew Carnegie in Dialogue: The Past, Present, and Future of Race, Gender, and Philanthropy,” with Tyrone Freeman (spring 2022).
“The Takeaway” (NPR) with Melissa Harris-Perry, “How the Book White Philanthropy Challenges Carnegie Corporation’s ‘An American Dilemma,’” (spring 2022).
The Caribbean Philosophical Association, Book Friday!, Discussion of White Philanthropy with Commentary by Mickaella Perina and Ziyana Lategan (spring 2022).
#TheBlackTable with Dr. Greg Carr: White Philanthropy and the Politics of Knowledge” (spring 2022).
The Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Book Friday!, “Featuring: White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order,” with commentary from Mickaella Perina and Ziyana Lategan (spring 2022).
The Deep Dive: A Culture and Insights Podcast (Podcast), “On this Episode: White Philanthropy and An American Dilemma with Dr. Maribel Morey” (spring 2022).
Philanthropisms (Podcast), “White Philanthropy, with Maribel Morey” (spring 2022).
The Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), Undercurrents Podcast, “Racial politics and US philanthropy: How did the politics of white supremacy emerge in early research on US race relations?” (fall 2021).
Fulbright Sweden, “Belonging: Maribel Morey & Robert Hannah explore questions of belonging as a Cuban-American and Assyrian-Swede in the U.S. and Sweden,” discussing White Philanthropy (2021) and Robert Hannah’s Potatisskallen (2018) (fall 2021).
University of South Africa, “From Waste of a White Skin to White Philanthropy,” discussing White Philanthropy (2021) and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard’s Waste of a White Skin (2015) (fall 2021).
CatalystMiami, “On Race, Power, and Philanthropy: Why the Origin Story of Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma Matters,” a conversation on White Philanthropy (2021) with economist Grieve Chelwa (fall 2021).
Capita (Podcast), “White Philanthropy: A Conversation with Maribel Morey” (fall 2021).
The Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford, “Ethics in AI Colloquium: The Tyranny of Generosity,” discussing Ted Lechterman’s new book, Tyranny of Generosity (2021) (fall 2021).
Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS), “Philanthropy and Power,” discussing White Philanthropy (2021) and Lucy Bernholz’s How We Give Now (2021) (fall 2021).
Alliance Magazine’s 25th anniversary series, “An existential crisis or moment of opportunity: philanthropy in the U.S. and Canada,” presenting on criticisms of U.S. philanthropy past and present (summer 2021).
City, University of London Webinar Series: “The International System of Power, Global knowledge, global conversations, critical issues: A more critical global conversation on world politics,” organized by Inderjeet Parmar and Juvaria Jafri, presenting “Producing Knowledge for a White Anglo-American Order,” Spring 2021.
National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting: Presenter on “Racial Social Democracy: Alva and Gunnar Myrdal in Dialogue with Contemporaneous Political Economic Thinkers”; Chair, “Politics and the African Diaspora in Europe and the US: A comparative cross-Atlantic Europe/US conversation around Michael McEachrane’s Afro-Nordic Landscapes (2014); and Discussant, “Strategies and Strengths for African Development,” Spring 2021.
University of Kerala, Department of Economics, International Web Conference on “Cooperatives, Mutual Aid and Solidarity Economies: Experiences from around the world,” Presenting on “Philanthropy, the State, or Mutual Aid: Who Should Fund Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences?” Spring 2021.
Harvard Kennedy School, Carr Center for Human Rights Series “The Fierce Urgency of Now,” organized by Sushma Raman and Mathias Risse, Presenter on the “Philanthropy and Inequality” Panel, Fall 2020.
City, University of London Webinar Series: “US Think Tanks and Foundations in World Politics,” organized by Inderjeet Parmar, Spring 2020, Presenting “Carnegie Corporation and the Making of a White World Order.”
Seminar Coordinator and Moderator, “COVID-19 and the Future of Global Civil Society and Philanthropy in Africa,” The Fourth Annual Seminar on Philanthropy, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke Högskola (ESBH), Stockholm, Sweden,” Spring 2020 [held virtually, because of the COVID-19 pandemic].
Workshop Creator and Presenter, International Political Economy Workshop, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke Högskola (ESBH), Stockholm, Sweden, Spring 2020 [postponed, because of the COVID-19 pandemic].
Workshop Creator and Presenter, National Political Economy Workshop, Presenting on “Past and Present, Political Economy, United States,” Ersta Sköndal Bräcke Högskola (ESBH), Stockholm, Sweden, Fall 2019.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, “An American Dilemma for the 21st Century,” Marking 75th Anniversary of An American Dilemma (1944), Panel I: Reflection on An American Dilemma, Fall 2019, NYC.
University of Sussex, American Studies Seminar, Fall 2019, Presenting “Uncovering Carnegie’s White World Order: The Colonial African Roots to Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma (1944).”
Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College (ESBH), Third Annual Seminar on Philanthropy: Is Philanthropy Compatible with Democracy?, Spring 2019, Presenting “Toward a New Moral Political Economy.”
Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, Germany, Workshop: “Global Conversations. Cross-Fertilization of Knowledge in the Making of the Modern World,” Spring 2019, Presenting “In Dialogue with 1930s Germany: U.S. Philanthropy and the Myrdals Reassess the Future of Science and Nations.”
Workshop Creator and Presenter, “The History and Future of Political Economy” Workshop, Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University, Spring 2019.
Indiana University, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Philanthropy Research Workshop, Spring 2019, “The Black Freedom Struggle and Big Philanthropy.”
Princeton University, Conference in Honor of Historian Hendrik Hartog, Fall 2018, Presented “Private Organizations for the Public Good: The Democratic Value of Studying Private Foundations.”
Columbia University Twentieth Century Politics and Society Seminar, Fall 2017, "Ralph Ellison was Right about An American Dilemma (1944)."
American Society for Legal History (ASLH) Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, Fall 2017, Organizer of (and Panelist on) "Private Foundations, Public Values, and the Transformation of American Society."
International Meeting on Law and Society, Mexico City, Mexico, Summer 2017, Panelist on "Examining Class and Inequality in Different Contexts."
Stockholm Philanthropy Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, Spring 2017, Panelist on "Are Swedes Overcoming Their Indifference to Philanthropy?"
Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College Public Seminar Inaugurating Guest Scholar Program in Philanthropy Studies, Stockholm, Sweden, Panelist, Spring 2017.
Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) Conference, Washington D.C., Fall 2016, Panelist on “Foundations and the Civil Rights Movement” and “The Politics of ‘Big Philanthropy’ Then and Now.”
International Society for Third-Sector Research Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, Summer 2016, Panelist on “The Role of Foundations in Democracies” and Commentator on “The Relationship between Civil Society & Democracy.”
“Revisiting Gunnar Myrdal” Humanity Workshop, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., January 2016.
American Historical Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, Winter 2016, Panelist on “Defining Social Needs: A Conversation among Historians and Foundation Officials about Philanthropy Past and Present” and Commentator on “Faith and Humanitarian Development: Defining Need, Seeking Change.”
American Historical Association Annual Conference, New York, New York, Winter 2015, Panelist on “Scholarship, Activism, and Expertise: The Social Sciences in the United States in the Twentieth Century.”
Vanderbilt University, History Department, Americanist Workshop, Nashville, Tennessee, Fall 2014.
American Society for Legal History Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, Fall 2014, Organizer of (and Panelist on) “Antonio Gramsci’s Hegemony, the African-American Experience, and Legal Definitions of Racial Equality.”
Rockefeller Archive Center Conference, Sleepy Hollow, NY, Fall 2014, Presenter at the Center’s Conference on Philanthropy, Fall 2014.
Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Stanford, California, Summer 2014, Presenter at the Junior Scholars Forum in Civil Society, the Nonprofit Sector, and Philanthropy.
Law & Society Association Annual Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Summer 2014, Panelist on “Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in Historical Perspective.”
Emory University School of Law, Project on War and Security in Law, Culture and Society, Atlanta, Georgia, Spring 2014.
Clemson University, 7th Annual Literary Festival, Clemson, South Carolina, Spring 2014, Panelist on “Between History and Memory.”
Creator and Lead Coordinator of The Department in History Workshop, Princeton University History Department, Spring 2013 (A half-day workshop on the intellectual history of the department, bringing together scholars such as Robert Darnton, Stanley N. Katz, Jean-Christophe Agnew, Philip Nord, Susan Naquin, Hendrik Hartog, Martha Sandweiss, James Banner, David Bell, and David Cannadine).
Can Nonprofit Save the Swedish Welfare Model? Conference, Sponsored by the Swedish Government’s Commission on the Future of Sweden and the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden, Fall 2012.
Princeton University, History Department, Modern Europe Workshop, Fall 2012.
Bard College, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, New York, Fall 2012. A summary of the presentation is available at http://www.hannaharendtcenter.org/?p=8021
New York University School of Law, Legal History Colloquium, New York, Fall 2012.
Oxford University, Oxford-Princeton Project on Political Membership: Transnational Histories, Summer 2012.
Ersta Sköndal Högskola’s Institute for Civil Society Studies, Stockholm, Sweden, Spring 2012.
American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, Winter 2012, Organizer of (and Panelist on) “Transnational Legal Networks and the Limits of American Power: 1906-1939.”
Stockholm University, Sociology Department, SUDA-SPaDE Colloquium & Wednesday Seminar, Fall 2011.
Princeton University, Southern Nation Conference, Spring 2010, Commenter on “Ideas and Southern Change” Panel.
Princeton University, Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars, Lunch Seminar, Spring 2010.
American Society for Legal History (ASLH) Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, Fall 2009.
New York University School of Law, Legal History Colloquium, Fall 2009.
Princeton University, Program for Law and Public Affairs (LAPA), Princeton, NJ, Spring 2008.
Princeton University, Hannah Arendt & Little Rock Symposium, Spring 2007.
University of Cambridge, Centre for Gender Studies, Gender Theory Seminar, Cambridge, England, Spring 2006.
University of Cambridge, Centre for Family Research, Cambridge, England, Spring 2006.
New York University School of Law, Legal History Colloquium, New York, NY, Fall 2004.
QUOTED IN THE PRESS
Jeremy Hill, Sophie Alexander, Jef Feeley, and Riley Griffin, “Sacklers to Exit from Complex Purdue Bankruptcy with Billions,” Bloomberg (Sept. 1, 2021).
Michael Kavate, “Dozens of Biden Administration Appointees Have Worked in Philanthropy. Here’s the List,” Inside Philanthropy (Aug. 3, 2021).
Nicholas Kulish and David Gelles, “MacKenzie Scott Gives Away Another $2.74 Billion Even as Her Wealth Grows,” The New York Times (June 15, 2021).
Sophie Alexander, “MacKenzie Scott Donates $2.7 Billion, Blasts Wealth Gap,” Bloomberg (June 15, 2021).
Sophie Alexander, “Gates Divorce Forces $50 Billion Foundation to Weigh Changes,” Bloomberg (May 27, 2021).
Transcribed interview with FrankNews, “An American Dilemma” (May 27, 2021).
Leslie Albrecht, “5 reasons why the Bill and Melinda Gates divorce is an ‘earthquake’ for philanthropy,” MarketWatch (May 7, 2021).
Nicholas Kullish, “What the Gates Divorce Means for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,” The New York Times (May 4, 2021).
Al Jazeera English, “The Big Picture: A Race for America,” (spring 2021).
SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES
Professional Service:
Co-founder and editor of HistPhil, a web publication on the history of philanthropy (June 2015-present).
Planning Committee for the 75th Anniversary Commemoration of Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma, Social Science Research Council (July 2018-Present).
Member, Moral Political Economy Project, Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University.
Primary Track Chair, “Philanthropy, Fundraising, and Giving” Track, ARNOVA Conference (2019, co-chair 2018).
Advisory Editor in Philanthropy and Civics, American National Biography (March 2014-Present).
Reviewer, Voluntary Sector Review (March 2014- Present).
Committee Member, American Society for Legal History’s Surrency Prize Committee (July 2014-2017).
Clemson University:
History Department, Pre-Law Advisor.
Faculty Advisor, Southern Poverty Law Center Campus Club (“SPLC on Campus”).
Fulbright Campus Interview Committee Member.
Critical Inquiry Committee Member.
Associate Dean for Research Search Committee Member.
Participant in “Race and the University: A Continuing Campus Conversation,” Fall 2015.
Organizer and Panelist on “What Would Racial Equality Actually Look Like.”
ASSOCIATIONS
American Society for Legal History (ASLH); American Historical Association (AHA); Organization of American Historians (OAH); Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS); National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS); Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA); American Studies Association (ASA).
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Spanish: native speaking and reading knowledge.
French: advanced speaking and reading knowledge (Language training received at the University of Notre Dame and at Middlebury College’s Summer Language Program).
Swedish: advanced speaking and reading knowledge (Language training received at New York University; Folkuniversitetet in Stockholm, Sweden; Columbia University in New York City; and Billströmska Folkhögskolan in Tjörn, Sweden (near Gothenburg, Sweden)).
REFERENCES (available upon request)