MJ Morgan received her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati, with a specialty in French colonial North America, the Mississippi Valley, 1650-1850, and riverine environmental history. She also holds degrees in writing from the University of Alaska. Currently adjunct professor of history, she teaches undergraduate and graduate classes while also directing KSU’s Broughton Research Project. In her class on migration, settlement, town formation and persistence, she trains students in local history research and broader, interpretive writing. She is strongly interested in the concepts of regional history and population mosaics determined by rivers. Her current research project is the lower Missouri River before 1820.

Select Publications

MJ Morgan has published articles on French America and reviews of regional histories in the Journal of Illinois History, Ohio Valley History Journal, and Louisiana History (forthcoming). She has contributed a chapter on the French and Cahokia Indians to a proposed historical geography collection, and her dissertation was a finalist for the 2006 Great Lakes American Studies Award.

Courses

History 533 Life and Death of American Communities
History 799 Nineteenth Century History
HIST 986 Special Problems in Louisiana Regional History
Directed Readings in American Community History
Workshops on Realities of the American Fur Trade and Geography and History

Additional Information

Students interested in the concepts of microhistory, local & regional history, and in contributing to a research archive of north-central Kansas regional history as well as a proposed publication on the lost town of Broughton, Kansas, should contact me. It is the diversity of undergraduate and graduate history interests that has vitalized the Broughton Project.