Doctoral Student Fellow
Doctoral Student, Department of History, Graduate School of Arts & Science
Project: Atlantic Crescent: Afro-Muslim Internationalism, Anti-Colonialism and Transnational Community Formation, 1955-2005
Alaina M. Morgan is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at New York University, specializing in the history of the African Diaspora. She is currently writing her dissertation, entitled Atlantic Crescent: Black Muslim Internationalism, Anti-Colonialism and Transnational Community Formation, 1955-2005, which is a social and political history of the role of decolonization in the formation of political communities among Black Muslims in the Atlantic basin. Alaina holds B.A. in Religion from Rutgers University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.