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David Morgan
- Professor and Department Chair
- Religion
- 324 Gray Building
- Campus Box 90964
- Phone: (919) 660-3555
- Fax: 919-660-3530
- Homepage
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Specialties
- American Religious History
- Culture
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Research Description
David Morgan is Professor of Religion with a secondary appointment in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke. He also chairs the Department of Religion at Duke. Morgan received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1990. He has published several books and dozens of essays on the history of religious visual culture, on art history and critical theory, and on religion and media. His most recent book is The Embodied Eye: Religious Visual Culture and the Social Life of Feeling (California, 2012). Other books are: The Lure of Images: A History of Religion and Visual Media in America (Routledge, 2007) and two that he edited and contributed to: Religion and Material Culture: The Matter of Belief (Routledge, 2010) and Key Words in Religion, Media, and Culture (Routledge, 2008). Earlier works include: Visual Piety (University of California Press, 1998), Protestants and Pictures (Oxford, 1999), and The Sacred Gaze (California, 2005). Morgan is co-founder and co-editor of the international scholarly journal, Material Religion, and co-editor of a book series at Routledge entitled “Religion, Media, and Culture.” -
Current Projects
Image and Imagination in Modern Christianity, delivered as the 2012 Cadbury Lectures, University of Birmingham, England, March 7 to 15, 2012. -
Areas of Interest
Religious Material Culture
American Religions
Religion and Media
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Education
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- PhD,
- Art History,
- University of Chicago,
- 1990
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Awards, Honors and Distinctions
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- 2005 Elected Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge,
- December 2008
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- 2008 Elected Member, American Antiquarian Society,
- December 2008
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- Author-meets-Critics session, 2008 annual conference of the American Academy of Religion: Elkins and Morgan, eds. Re-Enchantment,
- October, 2008
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- Author-meets-Critics session, 2007 annual conference of the American Academy of Religion: Morgan, The Sacred Gaze,
- November, 2007
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- Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge,
- August, 2004-November 2004
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- Protestants and Pictures (Oxford, 1999): Annual Award for Best Book in Field of Religion & Philosophy,
- Association of American Publishers,
- January, 1999
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Invited Lectures
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"The Look of the Sacred"
- May 16, 2008
- Key note address, Religionsaesthetik section, Deutsche Vereinigung der Religionswissenschaft, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, Germany
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"Religion, Media, Culture: The Shape of the Field"
- April 11, 2008
- keynote address, Authorizing Inscriptions: Religion, Aesthetics, and Global Media, University of California at Davis
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“Looking Beyond the Modern Bubble: Medieval Art and the Study of Modern Visual Culture”
- March 15, 2008
- Invited paper presented at conference entitled Looking Beyond, Visions, Dreams and Insights in Medieval Art and History, Index of Christian Art, Princeton University
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"Marian Visual Piety and the Economy of Belief"
- March 02, 2007
- key note address at University of Toronto Sawyer Seminar entitled “Spiritual Economies”
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Recent Publications
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- Visual Worlds: A History of Christian Visual Culture from the Reformation to the Present.
- 2013.
Publication Description
This book will first be presented as the 2012 Cadbury Lectures at the University of Birmingham, England, March 7-15, 2012
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- Image and Imagination in Modern Christianity.
- 2013.
Publication Description
Written version of the 2012 Cadbury Lectures, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- "Mídia, milênio, nacionalidade: cultura impressa evangélica nos primórdios da nação norte-americana."
- A Comunicação Religiosa Cristã entre a História da Igreja e a História das Religiões (Século V-XXI).
- Ed. Eliane Moura da Silva and Néri de Barros Almeida.
- Sao Paulo, Brazil:
- UNIFESP-Universidade Federal de São Paulo,
- 2012.
Publication Description
“Media, Millennium, Nationhood,” translated into Portuguese from Morgan, Protestants and Pictures, Oxford University Press, 1999
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- "The Look of the Sacred."
- Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies.
- Ed. Robert A. Orsi.
- New York:
- Cambridge University Press,
- 2012.
- 296-318.
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- "Religion and Visuality in America: Material Economies of the Sacred."
- Cambridge History of Religions in America, 3 vols..
- Ed. Stephen Stein.
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- New York:
- Cambridge University Press,
- 2012.
- 748-780.
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PhD Students
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Jamie Brummitt
- 2012 - present
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Stephanie Gehring
- 2012 - present
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Adrienne Krone
- 2011 - present
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Sonia Hazard
- 2010 - present
- Status: PostQual
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Andrew Coates
- 2010 - present
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