A historian of U.S. philanthropy and the social sciences, Dr. Maribel Morey serves as a consultant historian on the history of U.S. philanthropy for several leading U.S. foundations.
Dr. Morey also serves as executive director at the Miami Institute for the Social Sciences, a nonprofit organization responding to the unique positionality of Miami as a hub for international thought with global calls to bring to the center of academic scholarship perspectives and understandings of the Global Majority. Because from the perspective of the Miami Institute for the Social Sciences, 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 the author White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). In 2024, she also published two chapters on the history of U.S. philanthropy, in two separate edited volumes, both published by Oxford University Press. She also has served as co-author on another chapter on the history of the social sciences and race in Sweden, published by Routledge. Within her specialty on the history of U.S. philanthropy and the social sciences, Morey presented a paper at The Africa Institute in Sharjah, UAE on “New Directions in African Political Economy,” bringing into dialogue the works of economists Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020) and Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987).
Maribel Morey has a PhD in History from Princeton University and a JD from NYU Law School. For a longer list of Dr. Morey's publications, interviews, grants, fellowships, and awards, please follow this link.
In her prior life as a U.S. legal historian, Dr. Morey was assistant professor of history at Clemson University. Increasingly focused on national and global inequities in knowledge production in the academe, Dr. Morey’s work at the Miami Institute seeks to center the work of Global Majority scholars in the social sciences and neighboring fields.
