Professor Alan Gregory Morris is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Human Biology at the University of Cape Town. He has published extensively on the origin of anatomically modern humans, and the Later Stone Age, Iron Age, and Historic populations of Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, and South Africa, and in forensic anthropology. He has an additional interest in South African history and has published on the history of race classification, the history of physical anthropology in South Africa, and the Canadian involvement in the Anglo-Boer War. He is a council member of the Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents, an associate editor of the South African Journal of Science from 2009 to 2015, and an elected member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. He is a member of the Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA), the Anatomical Society of Southern Africa (ASSA), the Canadian Association of Physical Anthropologists (CAPA), and the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA). He was a Fulbright Visiting Fellow (2012-2013) at Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio, and a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the Leverhulme Centre from Human Evolutionary Studies at Cambridge from May to September 2015.
