Lucas E. Morel

Lewis G. John Term Professor and Acting Head of the Politics Department, Washington and Lee University

Huntley Hall 120
Lexington, Virginia  24450
(540) 458-8161

MorelL@wlu.edu

Education:

• Ph.D., M.A., Claremont Graduate School
• B.A., Claremont McKenna College

Courses Taught:

• AHG 503: Sectionalism and Civil War (Syllabus)
• AHG 504: Civil War and Reconstruction (Syllabus)
• AHG 621: Race and Equality in America (Syllabus)

Books:

• Ralph Ellison's American Democratic Individualism, forthcoming.
• Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to Invisible Man, editor (University Press of Kentucky, 2004)—Introduction, "Recovering the Political Artistry of Invisible Man"; Chapter, "Ralph Ellison's American Democratic Individualism."
• Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government (Lexington Books, 2000).

Recent Publications:

• "Lincolns Political Religion and Religious Politics," in Religion and the American Presidency, eds. Mark J. Rozell and Gleaves Whitney (Palgrave Press/MacMillan, March 2007)
• "Lincoln, God, and Emancipation: A Promise Fulfilled" in Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the 13th Amendment, eds. Harold Holzer and Sara Gabbard (Southern Illinois University Press, February 2007).
• "Charnwood's Lincoln: Biography as Civics Lesson," in Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association (Summer 2006).
• "Lincoln's Political Religion and Religious Politics," in Religion and the American Presidency, ed. Mark Rozell (Palgrave Press/MacMillan, 2006).
• "Forced into Gory Lincoln Revisionism," in Lincoln's American Dream: Clashing Political Perspectives, eds. Kenneth L. Deutsch and Joseph Fornieri (Potomac Books, 2005)
• "Malcolm X," in History of American Political Thought Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeffrey Sikkenga, eds., (Lexington Press, 2003).