Education
Ph.D. in Sociology, Princeton University, 2004
Master of International Affairs, Columbia University, 1992
B.A. magna cum laude, Economics & Political Science, Yale University, 1990
Employment
New York University
- Divisional Dean for Social Sciences and Vice Dean for Global and Strategic Initiatives, 2023 – present
- James Weldon Johnson Professor of Sociology, 2022 – present
- Academic Director, NYU Abu Dhabi in NY, 2019 – 2022
- Affiliated Faculty, NYU Abu Dhabi, 2012 – present
- Associate Professor of Sociology, 2011 – 2022
- Assistant Professor of Sociology, 2004 – 2011
Columbia University, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, 1995 – 1997
U.S. Department of State, American Embassy Tegucigalpa, Vice Consul, 1994 – 1995
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Economist, 1992 – 1993
Visiting Positions
- Institut Convergences Migrations, Paris – International Fellow, September 2022
- Institut d’Études Politiques (Sciences Po), Paris – Visiting Professor, May – June 2019
- Russell Sage Foundation, New York – Visiting Scholar, 2014 – 2015
- University of Milan – Bicocca – Fulbright Scholar, 2008 – 2009
- Columbia University, Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006 – 2007
Selected Publications
An Ugly Word: Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States
By Ann Morning and Marcello Maneri. Russell Sage Foundation, 2022.
Based on over 150 interviews in the U.S. and Italy, we explore young people’s notions of descent-based difference. Despite the frequent claim that Europeans and Americans see race very differently, we find a great deal of commonality in transatlantic concepts of difference.
The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference
By Ann Morning. University of California Press, 2011.
How do experts in the biological and social sciences define “race,” and what do young Americans learn from them about the nature of human difference? Interviews and analyses of textbook content trace how the contemporary understanding of race as a social construct gets lost in educational transmission.
Articles
- Iverson, Sarah, Ann Morning, Aliya Saperstein, and Janet Xu. 2022. “Regimes Beyond The One-Drop Rule: New Models of Multiracial Identity.” Genealogy 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(1): 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. (Lead article.)
- 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.
Curriculum Vitae
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