Aldon Morris is the Leon Forrest Emeritus Professor of Sociology and African American Studies in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. His interests include race, social inequality, religion, politics, theory and social movements.

 Morris is the author of “The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement” (New York: The Free Press, 1984). His other noted book, “The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology” (University of California Press, 2015) challenges sociologists to rethink the canon and how they teach sociology, especially sociological theory and methodology. Morris has won dozens of awards for his scholarship and work as a public intellectual.

Morris is a former Chair of the Department of Sociology, Director of Asian American Studies and Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University. Morris was elected as the 2021 President of the American Sociological Association. In 2023, Morris was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.