Jennifer Lyle Morgan (born 1965 or 1966) is an American historian of United States history, focusing on 16th and 17th century African-American history and the development of slavery in the United States through the lens of gender.

[1] Morgan graduated from Oberlin College in 1986 with a BA in Third World Studies, a self-designed major.

[1] It won both the Mary Nickliss Prize in Women's and/or Gender History from the Organization of American Historians and the Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.

[5] As of 2024, Morgan is working on a third book, The Eve of Slavery, which will examine "African women in seventeenth-century North America," including the story of Elizabeth Key, an enslaved woman who successfully sued for her freedom.

[2] She is currently a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.