Alaina M. Morgan

Alaina M. Morgan is an assistant professor of history at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She is the author of Atlantic Crescent: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation (UNC Press, 2025). A historian of the African diaspora, Morgan specializes in the intersection between religion, black internationalism, and anti-colonialism in the contemporary Atlantic world.

Essays

On friendship, space, and politics

Alaina M. Morgan | September 3, 2025

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Alaina M. Morgan

On friendship, space, and politics

Mobilizing social science for the public good.

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