Aldon D. Morris

Aldon Morris is the Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University, emeritus. His interests include race, social inequality, religion, politics, theory and social movements.

Morris is the author of the award winning book, The Origins of the Civil rights Movement. He is co-editor of Frontiers in Social Movement Theory and Opposition Consciousness. His book, The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology, was published in 2015 and has challenged sociologists to rethink the canon and how they teach sociology, especially sociological theory and methodology. He continues to work with a diverse group of scholars researching and publishing work generated by ideas advanced in The Scholar Denied, including international work in Brazil, England, and South Africa.

In 2017 he received the John D McCarthy Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Scholarship of Social Movements and Collective Behavior. In 2019 he was elected the president of the American Sociological Association. 

Morris is a former Chair of Sociology, Director of Asian American Studies and Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University.