Jerome Morris
Career and Information Studies (Faculty)
Professor
427B Aderhold Hall
Phone: 706.542.8117
Email: jemorris@uga.edu
PhD: Vanderbilt University: Educational Policy
Research and Teaching Interests
- Sociology & Anthropology of Education
- School Reform and Policy
- Urban Studies and the Ecological Context of Urban Education
- Black Identity and School Achievement
- Race, Social Class, and the Geography of Educational Opportunity
Select Research Affiliations
- Research Fellow at the Institute for Behavioral Research at UGA
- Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Project for Communities and Schools at UGA
- Director of the Race, Class, Place and Outcomes Research Group at UGA
- American Educational Research Association
- American Sociological Association
- African American Adolescents in a Black Suburb in the U.S. South: A Social Study of Schooling, Identity, and Achievement
- A Study of the Social and Academic Identities of African Adolescents in East Africa
- Hope VI Housing and the Consequences for Communities, Schools, and Families
- Examining Communal-bonds Among an African American School, Black Families, and a Community
- Voluntary Desegregation in St. Louis, Missouri: Impact on Partnerships Among Schools, Families, and Communities
Select Research Projects
Link to Select Publications:
Morris, J. E. (2009). Troubling the Waters: Fulfilling the Promise of Quality Public Schooling for Black Children. Teachers College Press.
Morris, J. E. & Monroe, C. R. (2009). Why study the U.S. South? The nexus of race and place in investigating Black student achievement. Educational Researcher, 38(1), 21-36.
Morris, J.E. (2008). Research, ideology, and the Brown decision: Counter-narratives to the historical and contemporary representation of predominantly Black schooling.Teachers College Record, 110(4), 713-732.
Morris, J.E. (2008). Out of New Orleans: Race, class, and researching the Katrina Diaspora. Urban Education, 43(4), 463-487. (Winner of the 2011 Feldman Award from the Groves Conference on Marriage and Family)
Morris, J. E. (2004). Can anything good come from Nazareth? Race, class, and African-American schooling and community in the urban South and Midwest. American Educational Research Journal, 41(1), 69-112.
Morris, J. E. (2003). What does Africa have to do with being African-American? A micro-ethnographic analysis of a middle school inquiry unit on Africa. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 34(3) 255-276.