Washington and Lee University
Huntley 120Professor Morel arrived at W&L in July 1999 from Siloam Springs, Arkansas, where he had taught from 1994 to 1999 at John Brown University. His teaching and research interests are American government, political theory, Abraham Lincoln, and black American politics. He also serves as a pre-law advisor for the undergraduate university at large. Dr. Morel is president of the Abraham Lincoln Institute, trustee of the Supreme Court Historical Society, and board member of the Abraham Lincoln Association. In the 2008-09 academic year, he was the Garwood Visiting Research Fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He also teaches in the Summer Masters Program in American History and Government at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio, where he also serves on the board of advisors. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, First Things, and Richmond Times-Dispatch, and is currently writing a book entitled "Lincoln, Race, and the Fragile American Republic."
Ph.D., Political Science, The Claremont Graduate School, 1994
M.A., Politics, The Claremont Graduate School, 1991
B.A., cum laude, Government, Claremont McKenna College, 1987
American government
Political philosophy
Black American politics
Abraham Lincoln
Ralph Ellison
Politics 100 – American National Government
Politics 111 – Introduction to Political Philosophy
Politics 250 – Black American Politics
Politics 350 – Ralph Ellison and the American Dream
Politics 360 – Lincoln's Statesmanship
Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to "Invisible Man" (University Press of Kentucky, 2004)
Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government (Lexington Books, 2000)
Adam Bradley, Ralph Ellison in Progress
Ralph Ellison, Three Days Before the Shooting . . .
Michael Lewis, The Big Short
Jack Nicklaus, Golf My Way
James T. Patterson, Freedom is Not Enough
Books & Culture: A Christian Review
Claremont Review of Books
Jewish Review of Books
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life, 2 vols.
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man and Juneteenth
Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America
Alan Jacobs, The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis
Harry V. Jaffa, Crisis of the House Divided and A New Birth of Freedom
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
William Lee Miller, President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman
Peter C. Myers, Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism
Michael O'Brien, Father Elijah: An Apocalypse
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find and The Habit of Being
Clarence Thomas, My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir
Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy