Maribel Morey

History, PhD candidate

Maribel Morey is a PhD candidate in the History Department at Princeton University. Her fields of interest are twentieth century U.S. and European cultural and political history; U.S. legal history; the history of philanthropies; and, the construction of authoritative thought on race and sex relations.

Morey is writing an institutional narrative of Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma (1944) that seeks to explain how the Carnegie Corporation of New York came to fund this study in the 1930s. In furtherance of this research, she has received support from the Center for African American Studies, the History Department, the Program in American Studies, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

With a similar focus on the construction of authoritative thought on race relations in twentieth century United States, Morey wrote "Hannah Arendt's Reflections on Little Rock, 1957-59: Echoing Academic Critiques of Brown, and (Somewhat Unwillingly) Legitimizing Segregationist Claims for State Sovereignty," which she presented at the Hannah Arendt and Little Rock Symposium at Princeton University, spring 2007.

She has a JD from New York University School of Law, where she received the Leonard M. Henkin Prize for her Note on the Fourteenth Amendment. During her time at NYU, Morey was also awarded a NYU-Mainzer Fellowship and consequently spent a semester at the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies. She has a BA in Political Science and Romance Languages and Literatures (French and Spanish) from the University of Notre Dame. There, she received the Paul Bartholomew Prize for Best Senior Honors Thesis in Political Theory. Morey began writing this thesis—on Simone de Beauvoir's understanding of race in the United States during the late 1940s—while she was studying at Sciences Po in Paris, spring 2002.

Publications

“The Civil Commitment of State Dependent Minors: Resonating Discourses that Leave Her Heterosexuality and His Homosexuality Vulnerable to Scrutiny," 81 New York University Law Review 2129 (2006). (arguing that the contemporary resonance between the state courts' and the mental health community's discourses on adolescent sex facilitates the civil commitment of state-dependent heterosexual girls and nonheterosexual boys, solely on the basis of their sexual behaviors).