Gordon Daniel Morgan, Ph.D.

W. E. B. DuBois Award Recipient - 1994

 Dr. Gordon D. Morgan is truly a native son of Arkansas, having attended three different schools there: Pine Street School (Conway), Grades 1-12; Arkansas AM & N (Pine Bluff) Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology, Cum Laude, 1953; and the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) Master of Arts in Sociology, 1956. He received the Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Sociology from Washington State University in 1963.

Dr. Morgan’s teaching career has been primarily in Arkansas: a teacher of mathematics, French, and social studies at Pine Street School, 1956-59; instructor of Sociology, Arkansas AM&N, 1959-60. From 1963-1965, Dr. Gordon was a Research Assistant for the Teachers for East Africa Project at Columbia University, and from 1965 to 1969, he was Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lincoln University (Missouri), becoming an acquaintance and colleague of Clyde Minor and Oliver C. Cox, ASBS first W.E.B. DuBois awardee. Since 1969, Dr. Morgan has taught at the University of Arkansas, being promoted to full professor in 1973. In 1991, he serve as a Visiting Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Washington State University.

A very productive and active professional life is evidenced by the fact that Dr. Morgan has written novels, poems, plays, and newspaper articles, in addition to numerous articles in refereed journals, plus thirty-five books, of which nine have been published. Some of them include African Vignettes (1967), The Ghetto College Student (1970), and American Without Enthnicity (1981). He has received more than a dozen grants and directorships, eleven consultantships, and has traveled, lectured, and or studied in Europe, Africa, Mexico, Cuba, Trinidad, Jamaica, Haiti, and Martinique.

His service and civic life has been equally varied, noteworthy--Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Artillery; Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, and Prince Hall Free and Accepted Masons, Fayetteville Rotary Club, Certified Lay Speaker in Arkansas United Methodist Church, and a choral member (tenor) in Northwest Arkansas Symphony.

Professionally, Gordon, as we affectionately call him, has been attending and participating in ASBS for twenty-seven years.  He is a life member and a past president (1979).  He is also a past president of the Arkansas Sociological Association (1978). Dr. Morgan is a dedicated family man, having been married to Izola, for more than thirty-five years. He is the father of four children.

ASBS honors itself by presenting to Dr. Gordon Daniel Morgan the 1994 W. E. B. DuBois-Award.