She received her B.A. in African & African American Studies and Liberal Studies from Emory University, and a Master’s and Ph.D. in American Studies from Purdue University. Dr. Morris has an interdisciplinary research and teaching focus that combines the fields of American History, Black Studies, and Women’s Studies. Her work has appeared in Comrades: A Local History of the Black Panther Party (IU Press, 2007), Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Struggles in America, (NYU Press, 2005) and the International Journal of Africana Studies. Dr. Morris is currently working on a book about the Mississippi based, civil rights organization Womanpower Unlimited.