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Michael A. Morrison
Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History
Office: UNIV 123
Office Phone: (765) 494-4140
Office Fax: (765) 496-1755
Email: mmorrison@purdue.edu
Specialization: 19th Century U.S. and American Political History.
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.
