David Morgan (art historian)


David Morgan is Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, with an additional appointment in Duke's Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies. Morgan served as the Chair in the Department of Religious Studies in Trinity College of Duke University from 2013-2016. He is the author of numerous books, including The Forge of Vision, The Embodied Eye, and The Sacred Gaze.

Biography

He holds a BA in Studio Art, at Concordia College, a MA in Art History at the University of Arizona, and a PhD in Art History at the University of Chicago, He taught at Valparaiso University from 1990 to 2007, where he was the Duesenberg Professor in Christianity and the Arts, in the honors college of Valparaiso University.

Academic work

Morgan’s writing has focused on the history of Protestant visual culture since the eighteenth century. He has also studied Catholic devotional images, the history of art theory, and religion and media. He was co-founder and is co-editor of the journal, Material Religion, and co-edits two book series at Routledge : Religion, Media, Culture, and Research in Religion, Media, and Culture. He is an Elected Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge University and Elected member, American Antiquarian Society.
Morgan is a recipient of the Annual Book Award from the Association of American Publishers in Professional and Scholarly Publishing for 1999 in the category of Religion and Philosophy for the book Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production. His edited volume Icons of American Protestantism: The Art of Warner Sallman received the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book for 1996 from the American Library Association.
His books include:
His edited volumes include: