#  Stephen Lawrence Morgan 

 

 



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 laptop\_windows [Stephen Morgan's Website](https://socweb.soc.jhu.edu/faculty/morgan/) 

 

 



 

 (Sociology, June 2000)  
*Thesis Title:* Educational Attainment and the Bayesian Dynamics of Expectation Formation  
*Committee:* Christopher Winship (Chair), Aage Sorensen, Christopher Jencks, Richard J. Murnane  
*Initial Placement:* Assistant Professor, Cornell University  
*Current Position:* [Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Education at Johns Hopkins University](http://soc.jhu.edu/directory/stephen-l-morgan/)

 Stephen L. Morgan is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Education at Johns Hopkins University. His current areas of scholarly research include education, demography, public opinion, causal inference, and survey methodology. His published articles and books are detailed on the [publications page](https://socweb.soc.jhu.edu/faculty/morgan/publications.html) of this site as well as his [Google Scholar page](http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kG3qL8kAAAAJ&hl=en). He also analyzes crime incident and arrest patterns in Baltimore City (see [reports](https://socweb.soc.jhu.edu/faculty/morgan/reports.html)). He is one of two faculty co-PIs (along with Jeremy Freese of Stanford University) of the [General Social Survey](http://gss.norc.org/).



 

 

 





 

 

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