Maribel Morey is executive director of the Miami Institute for the Social Sciences, a nonprofit organization whose work responds to the unique positionality of the city as a hub for international thought with global calls to bring to the center of academic scholarship perspectives and understandings of the Global Majority— of communities of Black and Indigenous people and People of Color (BIPOC) around the world. Because from our perspectives, a critical step towards treating each other with greater dignity and humanity in all aspects of life is to acknowledge each other and each other’s communities as pillars of knowledge about ourselves and the world around us.
Dr. Morey is also the author of White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order (University of North Carolina Press, 2021).
Building upon the research for White Philanthropy, Morey has a book chapter in The Oxford Handbook of W.E.B. Du Bois detailing W.E.B. Du Bois as an early and deeply engaged critical scholar of U.S. philanthropy’s international funding practices. Morey also has a forthcoming piece, “Power of the Purse,” in In Between and Across: Legal History Without Boundaries (Oxford University Press).
In Morey’s prior life as a U.S. legal historian, Morey was assistant professor of history at Clemson University. Increasingly focused on national and global inequities in knowledge production in the academe, Morey’s work at the Miami Institute seeks to center the work of Global Majority scholars in the social sciences and neighboring fields. Morey has a PhD in history from Princeton University and a JD from NYU Law School. For a longer list of publications, interviews, grants, fellowships, and awards, please follow this link.
