Her research interests include race, demography, and the sociology of science, especially as they pertain to census classification worldwide and to individuals’ concepts of racial difference. Her doctoral thesis was a co-recipient of the American Sociological Association’s 2005 Dissertation Award, and was published in 2011 by the University of California Press with the title The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference. Prof. Morning was the recipient of a 2008-09 Fulbright research award to visit the University of Milan-Bicocca, and has consulted on racial statistics for the European Commission in Brussels and the U.S. Census Bureau. She holds her Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University.