[1] Morning began her career in 1992 as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where she monitored the external debt burden of a portfolio of less-industrialized nations.
In 1994, she joined the U.S. Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer, serving as Vice Consul at the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and completed a temporary tour of duty at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York.
Since 2012, Morning has also been an Affiliated Faculty Member at NYU’s Abu Dhabi campus, teaching there regularly, and in 2019 she was appointed the Academic Director at 19 Washington Square North, NYUAD’s offices in New York.
A Fulbright scholarship to the University of Milan-Bicocca in 2008-09 resulted in her book investigating Italians’ beliefs about ethnic and racial difference, entitled An Ugly Word: Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States, co-authored with sociologist Marcello Maneri of the University of Milan-Bicocca, and published in 2022 by the Russell Sage Foundation.
She has collaborated with Alondra Nelson (Deputy Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and former President, Social Science Research Council) and Hannah Brückner (NYU Abu Dhabi) on the study of socially-desirable reporting of beliefs about biological differences between races, and has repeatedly challenged the notion that racial groups are objective biological entities as opposed to human inventions or social constructs.
From 2022 to 2023, Morning served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on the Use of Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry as Population Descriptors in Genomics Research.