Mr. Phillip Morgan

Phillip Morgan serves as the history program coordinator, as well as program coordinator for humanities and arts. A former small businessman, he holds degrees from Middle Tennessee State University (M.A. History) and Welch College (B.S., Music Performance) He has co-authored two books: Light and Truth: A Seventy-five Year Pictorial History of Welch College (Welch College Press, 2018) with J. Matthew Pinson, and The Cumberland Association: Celebrating 175 Years of Leadership, Ministry, and Service (RHM, 2018) with Roy W. Harris. He and his wife, Megan, have five children.

Education

• Ph.D. in History, Kansas State University (In Progress)
• M.A. in History, Middle Tennessee State University (2016)
  Thesis: “The Promise of a Second Evangelical Mind: Free Will Baptist Bible College and the Hybrid Model of Christian Higher Education” 
• B.S. in Music, Welch College (2008)

Areas of Interest

• History of the American South
• History of America’s Founding
• History of Conservatism

Select Publications

• Teacher, Scholar, Shepherd: Essays in Honor of Robert E. Picirilli, edited by Phillip T. Morgan and Matthew Steven Bracey (D6 Family Ministry)

• Light and Truth: A Seventy-Five Year Pictorial History of Welch College, by Phillip T. Morgan and J. Matthew Pinson (Welch College Press)

Select Courses

• The United States Founding Era
• The Conservative Intellectual Tradition
• Jacksonian Era (1814–1850)