while finishing up her doctoral dissertation, morning worked as a consultant to the u.s. census bureau, gathering and analyzing data on census racial and ethnic enumeration on nearly 140 nations around the globe. after earning her doctorate in 2004, she joined new york university’s department of sociology as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor in 2011. since 2012, morning has also been an affiliated faculty member at nyu’s abu dhabi campus, teaching there regularly. and since 2013, she has been a member of the u.s. census bureau’s national advisory committee on racial, ethnic and other populations.