Aldon Morris is the Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University. His interests include race, social inequality, religion, politics, theory and social movements. Morris is the author of the award winning book, The Origins of the Civil rights Movement. He is co-editor of Frontiers in Social Movement Theory and Opposition Consciousness. He has published widely on a variety of topics. His book, The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology, was published in 2015 by the University of California Press. The Scholar Denied, continues to exert significant influence in sociology and the social sciences, nationally and internationally. It has challenged sociologists to rethink the canon and how they teach sociology, especially sociological theory and methodology.-https://aldondmorris.com/