R.J. Morgan

About

Dr. R.J. Morgan, MJE, is an instructional associate professor in the School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi and executive director of the Mississippi Scholastic Press Association. He was managing fellow of the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics from 2022-2024. A former high school educator and a finalist for Mississippi Teacher of the Year in 2011, Morgan serves on the national certification committee for the Journalism Education Association and as head of the Scholastic Division of the Association for Educators of Journalism and Mass Communication. He received the Elizabeth Dickey Distinguished Service Award from the Southern Interscholastic Press Association in 2018, earned master journalism educator status from JEA in 2020, and was honored with AEJMC’s Robert P. Knight Multicultural Recruitment Award in 2023. Morgan spent 16 years covering college sports for the Associated Press and has written pieces for Religion Unplugged, Sporting News magazine, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal and the Memphis Commercial Appeal. As a Bob Dylan scholar, Morgan teaches a class on "Bob Dylan and the South" at the University of Mississippi and is currently working on a related book project. Morgan has a Ph.D. in education leadership from the University of Mississippi and earned undergraduate and master’s degrees at Mississippi State University. He lives in Oxford, Miss.