Morgan L. Ridgway

Morgan L. Ridgway specializes in twentieth century U.S. history with an emphasis on the Indigenous Mid-Atlantic/Lenapehoking. Their dissertation explores the affective and embodied dimensions of Indigenous community development within Philadelphia and the role of gathering in refusing the pastness assigned Native people by settler ideas of the future. In the process, they critique multiculturalism as an often violent antiblack settler practice that recruits Native people into a racial schema exploited by white supremacy. In centering performance, their work argues that the body is a critical site for decolonial practice that embraces the feeling of togetherness to disrupt white settler colonial power over time, space, and belonging.