Research Interests
An interest in the material culture of enchantment led Morgan to explore the role that images play in practices of enchantment in everyday life, and culminated in Images at Work, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2018.
The Thing about Religion: An Introduction to the Material Study of Religion, will be published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2021.
Selected Grants
Material Religion: State of the Art
ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. · 2015 - 2015Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research
Pew Postdoctoral Fellowship in Religion and American History ·
1994
- 1995
Yale University
to support research on Protestants and Pictures
Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and Humanities ·
1996
- 1997
J. Paul Getty
for research on the book project entitled Protestants and Pictures
NEH Humanities Fellowship ·
2001
- 2002
National Endowment for the Humanities
to pursue a project entitled “A History of the Religious Tract in Nineteenth-Century America”
Research & Travel Grant ·
2004
- 2005
Stichting Porticus, Amsterdam
for research project entitled "Visual Religion: The Intercultural Role of Images in the Modern History of Christian Missions”