Stephen L. Morgan

Stephen L. Morgan is the Director of the Center for the Study of Inequality and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University, an M.Phil. in Comparative Social Research from Oxford University, and a B.A. in Sociology from Harvard University.

His current areas of research include poverty, race, education, and methodology. In addition to journal articles and book chapters on these topics, he has published two books: On the Edge of Commitment: Educational Attainment and Race in the United States (Stanford University Press, 2005) and, co-written with Christopher Winship, Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research (Cambridge University Press, 2007). He is also the lead editor (along with David Grusky and Gary Fields) of the collection Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research from Sociology and Economics (Stanford University Press, 2006) and a co-editor (along with Arne Kalleberg, John Myles, and Rachel Rosenfeld) of Inequality: Structures, Dynamics and Mechanisms (Elsevier, 2004).