Description: Maribel Morey is a twentieth-century U.S. historian and historian of U.S. philanthropies.
A twentieth-century U.S. historian and historian of U.S. philanthropies, Maribel Morey researches the relationship between elite philanthropies and federal policies on minority groups in the United States . She has a J.D. from NYU School of Law and a PhD in History from Princeton University.
Maribel Morey is 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) and Executive Director of the Miami Institute for the Social Sciences , a nonprofit organization centering the work of Global Majority scholars in the social sciences as means both for improving the integrity and rigor of these fields and for building more inclusive national and international political economies.
Building upon her research for White Philanthropy , Maribel has a book chapter in The Oxford Handbook of W.E.B. Du Bois detailing Du Bois as an early and deeply engaged critical scholar of U.S. philanthropy’s international funding practices. Maribel also has a forthcoming piece, “Power of the Purse,” in In Between and Across: Legal History Without Boundaries (Oxford University Press).