Joseph G. Morgan

Background

Joseph Morgan was born on July 9, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois, United States, into the family of James P. and Joan M. (itzgerald) Morgan.

Education

Morgan received a Bachelor of Arts at Iona College in 1975. In 1981 Joseph got a Master of Arts at Manhattan College. Finally, he earned a Doctor of Philosophy at Georgetown University in 1993.

Career

Joseph Morgan started his career as an elementary school teacher in New Rochelle, the position he took from 1975 to 1977. From 1977 to 1978 he worked as a middle school teacher at a parochial school in New York City, and during 1985 - 1993 he was a high school teacher in Warwick.

Since 1989 Morgan has been taking the position of an assistant professor of history at Iona College in New Rochelle. He also writes books and works on the research on U.S. foreign relations with twentieth-century East Asia and Vietnam.

Achievements

• Joseph Morgan is highly famous as the author of the book The Vietnam Lobby: The American Friends of Vietnam, 1955-1975, which was written in 1997.

Works

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• book

  • The Vietnam Lobby: The American Friends of Vietnam, 1955-1975

    (In The Vietnam Lobby, Joseph Morgan shifts the focus away...)

    1997

Religion

Joseph became a member of the Roman Catholic Congregation of Christian Brothers in 1971 and still sticks to his perpetual vows that he professed in 1980.

Politics

Joseph Morgan described his political views as “slightly conservative.”

Membership

• American Historical Association

• Association of Asian Studies

• China Institute of America

• New York Council on Asian Studies

Interests

• reading, walking, “filmgoing”

Connections

Father:

James P. Morgan

Mother:

Joan M. (Fitzgerald) Morgan