Maribel Morey is executive director of the Miami Institute for the Social Sciences, a nonprofit organization whose work responds 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— of communities of Black and Indigenous people and People of Color (BIPOC) around the world. Because from our perspectives, 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 of numerous publications on the history of U.S. philanthropy and the social sciences on race, nationalism, and international development, including White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). For a list of Morey’s publications, please follow this link.
In Dr. Morey’s prior life as a U.S. legal historian, Morey was assistant professor of history at Clemson University. Increasingly focused on national and global inequities in knowledge production in the academe, Morey’s work at the Miami Institute seeks to center the work of Global Majority scholars in the social sciences and neighboring fields. Morey has a PhD in history from Princeton University and a JD from NYU Law School.
