Morgan L. Ridgway

Morgan L. Ridgway specializes in twentieth century U.S. history with an emphasis on the Indigenous Mid-Atlantic. Their dissertation explores the affective and embodied dimensions of Indigenous community development within Lenapehoking/Philadelphia and the role of gathering in rejecting the temporal and social nothingness assigned Native people by settler ideas of the future. In the process, they critique multiculturalism as an often violent antiblack settler practice and center Indigenous women as key leaders in a multitribal community who disidentify with the settler present through intimacy, feeling, dance, and art making.