Alaina M Morgan

Alaina Morgan is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Islam in North America in the Department of Religious Studies and the Sohail and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies.  Dr. Morgan's research focuses on the intersection between race, religion, and political life among Muslims of African descent in the post-World War II Atlantic world.  Her current book project explores the ways that Islam and Blackness were used by Muslims in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Anglophone Caribbean to form the basis of transnational anti-colonial and anti-imperial political networks.   Before coming to Stanford, Dr. Morgan received a Ph.D. from New York University's Department of History and a JD from Columbia University School of Law.