Rate My Professor Maribel Morey

Maribel Morey is a historian of U.S. philanthropy and the social sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University (2013), a J.D. from New York University School of Law (2006, Articles Editor of the NYU Law Review), and a B.A. magna cum laude in Political Science and Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Notre Dame (2003). Her academic career includes serving as Assistant Professor in the History Department at Clemson University from 2013 to 2020, where she received the Research, Scholarship and Artistic Achievement Award (2018) and the Board of Trustees Award for Excellence (2017). She was also the Inaugural Visiting International Professor of Philanthropy at Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College in Stockholm, Sweden (2019–2020), and Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History at New York University School of Law (2012–2013). Currently, Morey is Executive Director of the Miami Institute for the Social Sciences (2020–present) and Consultant Historian on the history of U.S. philanthropy for several leading U.S. foundations (2024–present).

Morey's research focuses on 20th-century U.S. history, history of U.S. philanthropy, African American intellectual history, history of the social sciences, and U.S. legal history. She is the author of the book White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). Key publications include chapters such as “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 (Oxford University Press, 2024) and “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 (Oxford University Press, 2022). Her peer-reviewed articles feature “Further Analysis of Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma (1944) as a Swedish Text” in Humanity (2017) and “Reassessing Hannah Arendt’s ‘Reflections on Little Rock’ (1959)” in Law, Culture, and the Humanities (2014). Among her major awards is the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship from the Carnegie Corporation of New York (2016–2018), along with a Fulbright Grant and American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship (2011–2012). As co-editor of HistPhil, Morey contributes to scholarly discourse on philanthropy history, with her work appearing in outlets like The Atlantic and Stanford Social Innovation Review, influencing debates on race, power, and knowledge production in academia.