James Winston Morris (born 1949) is an American Islamic theologian, currently a professor in the Department of Theology at Boston College.

Before teaching at Boston College, he held the Sharjah Chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter.

[2] He received a BA in Civilizational Studies from the University of Chicago in 1971, and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University in 1980, for a thesis "Ibn Masarra: A Reconsideration of the Primary Sources".

He also studied at the University of Strasbourg, the American University in Cairo, the Iranian Academy of Philosophy, and the Center for the Study of Civilizations, Tehran.

He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris), University of Malaya, and University of Sarajevo.