Curriculum Vitae 2014
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Nancy Morgan
EDUCATION
Temple University
Ph.D. candidate, American History, matriculated Fall term 2008
Dissertation: ““Fraught with Disastrous Consequences for our Country”:
Cherokee Sovereignty and Nullification, 1831-1833”
Advisor: Jonathan D. Wells
Members: Gregory J. W. Urwin
David Waldstreicher
External Readers: Tim Alan Garrison, Portland State University
Elizabeth R. Varon, University of Virginia
Preliminary Exam Fields: completed January 2011
 U.S. History, Colonial to Civil War
 The South, Slavery, Sectional Crisis and the Second Party System
 Atlantic World: 1500-1830
Public History
 Academic Advisor, Circle Legacy Center:
A Source for Native America, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
 American Philosophical Society/Temple University
o Archives and Manuscripts
o Research Archives and Manuscripts
 Archival Certification Exam, Successful Completion: August 2010
 Katharine Drexel Archives, Bensalem, Pennsylvania: Archival Assistantship: Involved
processing, arranging and describing, developing finding aids, with administrative
support and outreach: Summer 2009
 Urban Archives, Temple University: Part of a team that processed “The Victorian
Society in America” accession: 2008
University of Pennsylvania
Masters in Liberal Arts, Capstone Project, “The Cherokees are Just Like Us: U.S.
Nationalist Expressions in the Writings of John Howard Payne”: 2006
First Reader: Daniel K. Richter
Union College
Bachelors of Science, Chemistry
PUBLICATIONS
The Journals of the Reverend Samuel Austin Worcester, 1831-1833, 1835-1841, co-editors
Cathy S. Monholland & Tim Alan Garrison, under contract: University of Nebraska Press.
“Robert Anderson and Cherokee Removal,” co-author, C. S. Monholland, Journal of
Cherokee Studies, under contract, Vol. XXXI, (2014).
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“Jeremiah Evarts: The Cherokees’ Forgotten Counsel,” editor, Tim Alan Garrison, “Our
Cause Will Ultimately Triumph”: Profiles from the American Indian Sovereignty
Movement (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2014), 27-38.
““She’s as Chaste as a Virgin!”: Gender, Political Platforms, and the Second American
Party System,” editor, Sean Patrick Adams, A Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson,
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), 298-327.
“Illuminating Cherokee Removal Again: Lucy Ames Butler to Harriet Nason Howe:
December 20, 1838,” co-author, C. S. Monholland, Journal of Cherokee Studies, Vol.
XXVII, (2010).
“The Radicalization of John Howard Payne: Altruism, Violence and Nationalism,”
Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies, Vol. XV:1, (Fall 2009), 64-80.
BOOK REVIEW
Review of: Michele Lise Tarter and Richard Bell, eds., Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early
America, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012), in Southern Historian, XXXV, Spring
2014, 97-99.
GRANTS, AWARDS, INTERNSHIPS
Filson Historical Society Travel Grant Fellowship: Academic Year 2012-2013
Dickinson College Research and Development Fund for Faculty: Spring Semester 2013
Dickinson College Dean’s Faculty Conference Fund: Spring Semester 2013
Temple University CHAT Associate Research Fellowship: Academic Year: 2012-2013
Temple University: Teaching and Learning Center: Teaching in Higher Education
Certification: 2011
Edward R. and Essie Baron Award for the History Department’s Outstanding Teaching
Assistant, Academic Year: 2010-2011
Administrative Assistant: Journal of the Early Republic Book Reviews, Fall 2010 to Spring
2011
Teacher’s Assistant, Temple University, Department of History: Fall 2008-Spring 2011
CLA Graduate Research Grant, Temple University, for “Illuminating Cherokee Removal
Again: Lucy Ames Butler to Harriet Nason Howe: December 20, 1838”: 2009
Award for Excellence, Temple University: 2008
Research Grant for “The Radicalization of John Howard Payne: Altruism, Violence and
Nationalism,” American Philosophical Society: 2007
Cherokee Nation’s Cherokee History: Tahlequah, Oklahoma: June 2005
The Eastern Band of the Cherokees, Cherokee History: Cherokee, North Carolina:
July 2004
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR): Created and Implemented
Panel: July 2014
“The Art of Democratic Power: Andrew Jackson as Writer for Newspapers, Land
Speculator, and Politician-in-Chief”
Paper: “Cherokee Sovereignty and Nullification: Majority Rule and Minority Rights”
“Democratization and Cherokee Removal”
Princeton University American Indian Studies Working Group:
First Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, “Translation in American
Indian Studies,” November 2013
Organization of American Historians (OAH): Created and Implemented Panel: April 2013
“Early Republic Borderlands: Indian Removal, Slavery, and Non-State Actors”
Paper: ““Fraught with Disastrous Consequences for our Country”: Cherokee
Removal and Nullification, 1824-1839”
“The Significance of Jeremiah Evarts on John Marshall’s Federal Indian Law Decisions,
Cherokee Nation (1831) and Worcester (1832), ” University of Pennsylvania Democracy,
Citizenship and Constitutionalism Graduate Workshop: 2010
“Odes to Simplicity and Kindness: Public Nostalgia for William Penn in the Early
Nineteenth Century,” Pennsylvania Historical Association Conference: 2009
“The Significance of the “William Penn” essays on Worcester v. Georgia,” Temple
University Barnes Club Graduate History Conference: 2009
“Spiritual Father of Federal Indian Law: Jeremiah Evarts’s Influence on Marshall’s
Worcester v. Georgia,” University of Maryland History Graduate Student Association
Conference: 2009
“The Cherokees Are Civilized, Too: Or, How Getting Arrested (Sort of) Expanded the
Nationalist Vision of John Howard Payne.” Temple University Barnes Club Graduate
History Conference: 2008
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Arizona State College
HST 406: The American Revolution (Fall 2014)
Dickinson College
History 118: United States History since 1877
History 211: US Legacies: Slavery/Frontier (Colonization)
History 211: US Military History
Temple University
HIST 3104: Nineteenth-Century America, upper-level undergraduate seminar (2 semesters,
including a summer intensive)
HIST 3296: Writing American Populism, intermediate undergraduate writing seminar
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La Salle University
HIST 155: American History through Biography, introductory undergraduate survey (3
courses over two semesters)
History 251: Global History 1500 to the Present
Teacher’s Assistant
Temple University
HIST 1101: United States History Survey, Colonial Era through the Civil War (2 semesters)
HIST 0829: History and Significance of Race in America (2 semesters)
HIST 1007: Popular Culture in Twentieth Century America
HIST 1011: Modern United States History through Film
HIST 3333: Introduction to Modern Britain
HIST 1702: The Modern World
TEACHING FIELDS
United States History
American Race History
Gender History
Women’s History
Labor History
American Political History
Atlantic World History
Global History
Native American History
Cherokee History
Archival Research
COMMUNITY SERVICE
“History Research & Technology Day,” Coordinated workshop for history faculty and
graduate students for the latest information on internet search engines and
programming tools: May 2011
National History Day Judge, Regional Division: March 2011
March 2012
SKILLS
Oral History Recording
Archival Research and Management