Ann Morning is Assistant Professor of Sociology at New York University. She holds a B.A. magna cum laude in Economics and Political Science from Yale University, where her senior essay was named best thesis in the major, and a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Morning earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University, where she specialized in demography at the Office of Population Research. Her doctoral dissertation, “The Nature of Race: Teaching and Learning About Human Difference,” won the American Sociological Association’s Dissertation Award in 2005. Prior to her academic career in sociology, Morning worked as an economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as a Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Honduras, and as an assistant dean for academic affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Dr. Morning publishes and lectures on racial classification and conceptualization in the United States and abroad, with particular attention to the uses of racial categorization in demography, law, medicine, and genetic research. Her research topics include the historical and contemporary demography of the U.S. multiracial population, racial classification of ethnic groups like Hispanic and South Asian Americans, cross-national comparison of ethnic classification practices on censuses worldwide, scientific and lay concepts of race, and the effect of socially desirable reporting on Americans’ expression of biological definitions of race. As a consultant, she has conducted research on racial classification practices for the U.S. Census Bureau as well as the European Commission in Brussels.