Marcus Morgan is a sociologist at the School for Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. He previously worked at the University of Cambridge and the University of London. His work spans social theory, cultural sociology, the sociology of social movements, and political sociology. He has published on humanism, the sociology of intellectuals, and the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. His most recent book is Performing Power (Polity, 2025). He is also the author of Pragmatic Humanism: On the Nature & Value of Sociological Knowledge (Routledge, 2016), and co-author (with Patrick Baert) of Conflict in the Academy: A Study in the Sociology of Intellectuals (Palgrave, 2015). He was formerly co-Editor of the BSA/SAGE journal Cultural Sociology.
