Dr. Terrell R. Morton

Assistant Professor, Identity and Justice in STEM
Education at the University of Illinois Chicago, College of Education – Educational Psychology

Dr. Terrell R. Morton (@DrTRMorton) is an Assistant Professor of Identity and Justice in STEM Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is an alumnus of North Carolina A&T State University (B.S. Chemistry), University of Miami (MS Neuroscience), and UNC Chapel Hill (Ph.D. Education - Learning Sciences and Psychological Studies). Dr. Morton identifies as a Scholar-Activist! His work strives to transform the positioning and understanding of Blackness in mainstream education, specifically STEM, seeking justice and joy for Black women, Black students, and other minoritized individuals given the social-cultural-political-historical positioning of their identities. He is an accomplished, emerging scholar, having published in an array of academic journals, obtained 5.43 million dollars in external grant funding, and given several global and national talks. Through every endeavor, he strives to “walk it like I talk it.”