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Michael A.
Morrison
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate
Studies
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1989
Office Hours:
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appointment) |
Main Office Phone: 765-494-4122
University Hall
672 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2087
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"Let early education be a
sort of amusement;
you will then be better able to find out
the
natural bent."
St. Martha School 1955
Dearborn, Michigan |
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Biography:
Michael A. Morrison
studied history at the University of Michigan where he received his Ph.D.
in December 1989. He began teaching in Purdue’s Department of
History in August 1991. In addition he was associate editor of the Journal
of the Early Republic from 1989 to 1993; since 1994 he has been
co-editor, with John L. Larson, of
the Journal. Professor Morrison is the author of Slavery
and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of
the Civil War, which was a choice of the History Book Club. He is also the editor of The Human Tradition in Antebellum
America, and co-editor with Ralph D. Gray of New Perspectives on
the Early Republic. His
most recent publication is Race and the Early Republic: Racial
Consciousness and Nation-Building in the Early Republic, co-edited
with James Brewer Stewart. He
is currently working with Melinda Zook on a forthcoming collection of
essays, Revolutionary Currents: Nation Building in the Transatlantic
World. Professor Morrison teaches both halves of the United States
survey, American Political history, Modern America, and, most recently,
Society, Culture, and Rock and Roll.
He has been the recipient of the College of Liberal Arts Teaching
Excellence Award and Purdue University’s Charles B. Murphy Outstanding
Undergraduate Teaching Award. In 1998, the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching named him Indiana Professor of the Year.
Professor
Morrison is married to Professor Nancy
F. Gabin, who teaches women's and labor history at Purdue University.
They have two children, Natty and Katie. To their credit, both have
a vast knowledge of rock and roll music and have never been arrested. The same can be said for their parents.
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