Ann Morning

Ann Morning

James Weldon Johnson Professor of Sociology and Divisional Dean for the Social Sciences

Education

Ph.D. 2004 (Sociology) Princeton University;

M.A. 1992 (International Affairs) Columbia University;

B.A. 1990 (Economics & Political Science) Yale University.

Areas of Research/Interest

Race and ethnicity, especially racial classification; multiracial population; demography; sociology of knowledge and science; immigration; economic sociology; qualitative methods; comparative-historical analysis.

Articles:

  • Iverson, Sarah, Ann Morning, Aliya Saperstein, and Janet Xu. 2022. “Regimes Beyond the One-Drop Rule: New Models of Multiracial Identity.” Genealogy 6(2): 57-80. Special Issue: “Beyond the Frontiers of Mixedness: New Approaches to Intermarriage, Multiethnicity, and Multiracialism.”
  • Xu, Janet, Aliya Saperstein, Ann Morning, and Sarah Iverson. 2021. “Gender, Generation and Multiracial Identification in the United States.” Demography 58(5): 1603-1630. (Lead article.)
  • Morning, Ann, Hannah Brückner, and Alondra Nelson. 2019. "Socially Desirable Reporting and the Expression of Biological Concepts of Race." Du Bois Review 16(2).
  • Morning, Ann and Aliya Saperstein. 2018. "The Generational Locus of Multiraciality and Its Implications for Racial Self-Identification." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 677: 57-68.
  • Morning, Ann. 2017. “Kaleidoscope: Contested Identities and New Forms of Race Membership.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 41(6): 1-19. 
  • Morning, Ann. 2017. “Race et génomique aux États-Unis.” Institut d’Études Politiques Dossiers du CERI web micro-symposium on “La question raciale aux États-Unis.” 
  • Morning, Ann. 2014. “Does Genomics Challenge the Social Construction of Race?” Sociological Theory 32(3): 189-207. 
  • Morning, Ann. 2014. “And You Thought We Had Moved Beyond All That: Biological Race Returns to the Social Sciences.” Guest editorial, Ethnic and Racial Studies 37(10): 1676-1685. 
  • Gullickson, Aaron, and Ann Morning. 2011. “Choosing Race: Multiracial Ancestry and Identification.” Social Science Research 40: 498-512. 

Books:

  • Morning, Ann and Marcello Maneri. 2022. An Ugly Word: Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States. New York: Russell Sage.
  • Morning, Ann. 2011. The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Book Chapters:

  • Morning, Ann. 2018. “The Constructivist Concept of Race.” Pp. 50-61 in Von Vacano, Diego and Kazuko Suzuki, eds. Reconsidering Race: Social Science Perspectives on Racial Categories in the Age of Genomics. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Morning, Ann. 2015. “Chapter 10: Race and Ethnicity” in Manza, Jeff, Richard Arum, and Lynne Haney, eds. The Sociology Project 2.0.  Pearson Education.
  • Morning, Ann. 2012. “Multiraciality and Census Classification in Global Perspective.” Pp. 10-22 in Edwards, Rosalind,  Suki Ali, Chamion Caballero, and Miri Song, eds., International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing. Routledge: London and New York.
  • Reprinted in King-O’Riain, Rebecca C., Stephen Small, Minelle Mahtani, Miri Song and Paul Spickard, eds. 2014. Global Mixed Race. New York: New York University Press. (Pp. 1-15)
  • Goldstein, Joshua R., and Ann J. Morning.  2002. "Back in the Box: The Dilemma of Using Multiple-Race Data for Single-Race Laws." Pp. 119-136 in The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals, edited by Joel Perlmann and Mary C. Waters. New York: Russell Sage Foundation and Levy Economics Institute.