Full Name
Theresa Morris
Job title
Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies
Affiliation/Organization
Texas A&M University
Short Bio
Theresa Morris Ph.D. is Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies, Coordinator of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, and Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University, where she conducts research on gender, sexual harassment, reproduction, and birth. Her first book, Cut It Out: The C-Section Epidemic in America (NYU Press 2013), was positively reviewed in several venues, including the New York Times, and her second book, Health Care in Crisis: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Consequences of Policy Change (NYU Press 2018), received an Honorable Mention for the 2019 Adele E. Clarke Book Award. Dr. Morris has also published articles in journals, including American Sociological Review, Birth, California Law Review, Social Problems, and Women’s Health Issues. Dr. Morris teaches graduate and undergraduate classes covering Reproduction and Birth, Gender, Gender and Health, and Medical Sociology. She is currently working on an NSF grant aimed at helping universities and colleges prevent and address sexual harassment.
Theresa Morris