Christopher Clark Morphew (/ˈmɔːrfjuː/; born 1967) is an American academic and the current dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Education, a position he assumed on August 1, 2017.
He was awarded his PhD in social sciences and educational practices from Stanford University in 1996, with a thesis, "Statewide governing boards and program duplication: a longitudinal system of seven public systems of higher education".
From 2004 to 2007, he was on the Faculty for Executive Doctorate in the Higher Education Management Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
From December 2006 until June 2009, he was the graduate program coordinator for the University of Georgia's Institute of Higher Education.
Between August 2006 and June 2009, he was co-director of the Franklin Fellows Postdoctoral Teaching Program for the University of Georgia.
From January 2014 to July 2017, he was the executive associate dean for research and innovation at the University of Iowa College of Education.
On August 1, 2017, he became the dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Education in Baltimore, Maryland.
Five years later, his youngest child, Clara Kooi Morphew, was born in 2007, in Athens, Georgia, United States.