Education
Born in England, Morgan graduated from Cambridge University and received his Doctor of Philosophy from University College London.
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Philip Morgan
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He has specialized in Early Modern colonial British America and slavery in the Americas. Morgan taught at the College of William and Mary and was editor of the William and Mary Quarterly from 1997 to 2000. He teaches at Johns Hopkins University, where he is the Harry C. Black Professor of History, and during the 2011-2012 academic year is the visiting Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.
Achievements
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Foreign Slave Counterpoint (1998) 1998 American Historical Association, Albert J. Beveridge Award and Wesley-Logan Prize 1999: Bancroft Prize; the first Frederick Douglass Prize, shared that year with the historian Ira Berlin, awarded by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Yale University; Organization of American Historians, Elliott Rudwick Prize; South Carolina Historical Society Prize; Library of Virginia Literary Nonfiction Award; Southern Historical Association, Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Prize. And American Philosophical Society, Jacques Barzun Prize (1999).
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United States
Awards
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Guggenheim Fellowship Beveridge Award; Frederick Douglass Prize; Bancroft Prize For Slave Counterpoint (1998) 1998 American Historical Association, Albert J. Beveridge Award and Wesley-Logan Prize 1999: Bancroft Prize; the first Frederick Douglass Prize, shared that year with the historian Ira Berlin, awarded by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Yale University; Organization of American Historians, Elliott Rudwick Prize ; South Carolina Historical Society Prize; Library of Virginia Literary Nonfiction Award; Southern Historical Association, Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Prize; and American Philosophical Society, Jacques Barzun Prize (1999). The Albert J. Beveridge Award was established in 1939 in memory of United States Senator Beveridge of Indiana, former secretary and longtime member of the American Historical Association (AHA), through a gift from his wife, Catherine Beveridge and donations from AHA members from his home state.; The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas.Guggenheim Fellowship Beveridge Award; Frederick Douglass Prize; Bancroft Prize For Slave Counterpoint (1998) 1998 American Historical Association, Albert J. Beveridge Award and Wesley-Logan Prize 1999: Bancroft Prize; the first Frederick Douglass Prize, shared that year with the historian Ira Berlin, awarded by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Yale University; Organization of American Historians, Elliott Rudwick Prize ; South Carolina Historical Society Prize; Library of Virginia Literary Nonfiction Award; Southern Historical Association, Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Prize; and American Philosophical Society, Jacques Barzun Prize (1999). The Albert J. Beveridge Award was established in 1939 in memory of United States Senator Beveridge of Indiana, former secretary and longtime member of the American Historical Association (AHA), through a gift from his wife, Catherine Beveridge and donations from AHA members from his home state.; The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas.