Ann Morning is an Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University as well as the Academic Director at 19 Washington Square North, the home of NYU Abu Dhabi in New York. Trained in economics, political science, and international affairs as well as sociology, her research interests include race, demography, and the sociology of science, especially as they pertain to census classification worldwide and to individuals’ concepts of difference. She is the author of The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference (University of California Press 2011), and co-author of An Ugly Word: Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States (with Marcello Maneri, U. Milan-Bicocca; expected in 2022 from Russell Sage Foundation). Her articles have appeared in such journals as American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Demography, Science, Sociological Theory, and Ethnic & Racial Studies. Morning was a 2008-09 Fulbright research fellow at the University of Milan-Bicocca and a 2014-15 Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, and her honors include the 2005 American Sociological Association Dissertation Award as well as a 2017 “Golden Dozen” Teaching Award from New York University. She was a member of the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations from 2013 to 2019 and has consulted on racial statistics for the European Commission and the United Nations. Morning holds her B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Yale University, a Master’s of International Affairs from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University.