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Morris was Visiting Professor at George Mason University from 1995–2001. He taught: History (The History of Science & Medicine), Philosophy (Wittgenstein), English (Milton, Shakespeare & 19th Century American Literature) and African American Studies. (Morris was known to have taught African American studies as a critique of both the need and desire for the subject as "a subject in search of a discipline".) The History He was invited by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC to become a Smithsonian Associates Lecturer in History and in 1999, gave a series of lectures - The Indelible Template - on the Haitian Revolution. He was Sir William Goodenough Fellow at the Goodenough College in London, where his Inaugural Lecture was: "The Economic Consequences of Peace in the Middle East". He has lectured at Pace University, Columbia, NYU, Georgetown, Bentley College, Johns Hopkins, Fordham Universities for LeadAmerica, largely on the Global Financial System.
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