Morgan Freeman

Morgan Ellen Freeman is a doctoral candidate in American Studies, with a research concentration in Black and Indigenous visual and material cultures in North America. Her dissertation project, “Arctic Theater: Racial Formation and Artistic Performance in the Polar North,” considers the relationship between race, histories of exploration in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), and the persistence of U.S. militarism in the region.

Morgan was previously the Native American Art Fellow (2018-20) at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, serving as co-curator for the exhibitions: Form and Relation: Contemporary Native Ceramics, The Embodiment of Language, and This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World. She graduated from Tufts University with a BA in American Studies.