Margaret Abruzzo Associate Professor

Specializes in U.S. intellectual, cultural, and religious history, with an emphasis on the moral/intellectual debates surrounding enslavement.

Expertise: United States History; Southern History; Religious History.

Research Interests

• American intellectual, cultural, and religious history
• Changing conceptions of sin, wrongdoing, and moral responsibility
• American slavery debate
• The history of morality and humanitarianism

Current Projects

• I am working on a book on changing conceptions of sin, wrongdoing, and moral responsibility in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Anglo-American moral thought.
• “The Sins of Slaves and the Slaves of Sin: Toward a History of Moral Agency” for The Worlds of American Intellectual History.