Helen Clarissa Morgan

Helen Clarissa Morgan (1845 - May 23, 1914) was an American educator from the U.S. state of New York. She was the first woman to be appointed professor of Latin in a US coeducational college.

Early years and education

Helen Clarissa Morgan was born in Masonville, New York in 1845. The family moved to Oberlin, Ohio when Morgan was 12 years old.^[1] She graduated from Oberlin College in 1866, receiving the degree of bachelor of arts, and in 1911 that college conferred upon her the honorary degree of master of arts.^[2]

Career

Upon graduation she taught for three years in Michigan, and in 1869 was called to Nashville, Tennessee to teach in Fisk University, which was then located in the Federal Hospital Buildings, W. E. B. Du Bois being one of her students.^[3] Although she received a call to teach at Vassar College, she chose to devote her life to work among African Americans, and remained at Fisk University for 38 years. She was the first woman to be appointed professor of Latin in a US coeducational college. On account of her long and faithful service the Carnegie Foundation, on June 7, 1907, voted to Professor Morgan a retiring allowance. She died on May 23, 1914.^[2]

References

Attribution

• This article incorporates text from a work in the public domain: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's Annual Report (1913)

Bibliography

• Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1913). Annual Report (Public domain ed.). The Foundation. 
• Washington, Booker T; Harlan, Louis R. (1 October 1972). Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 2: 1860-89. Assistant Editors, Pete Daniel, Stuart B. Kaufman, Raymond W. Smock, and William M. Welty. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-00243-4. 
• Wyles, Rosie; Hall, Edith (27 October 2016). Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-872520-6. 

External links

• Helen Clarissa Morgan at the Database of Classical Scholars