Edward K. Morris is an emeritus professor in the Department of Applied Behavioral Science (ABSC) at the University of Kansas (KU). He was raised outside Philadelphia, earned a B.S. in psychology at Denison University (1970), and earned an M.A (1974) and Ph.D. (1976) in psychology at the University of Illinois under Sidney W. Bijou and William H. Redd. His first and only faculty position has been at KU. His early research was on human operant behavior, but later on the historical and conceptual foundations of behavior analysis. His teaching addressed these foundations, theories of child development, and the behavior analysis of child development, verbal behavior, and everyday human behavior. His service has included being the ABSC chairperson (2000-2015); president of the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI), the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Division 25 for Behavior Analysis and Division 26 for the Society for the History of Psychology, the Kansas Association for Behavior Analysis (and its founder), and KU’s chapter of Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Honor Society; and editor of The Behavior Analyst (now Perspectives on Behavior Science) and two newsletters: the APA Division 25 Recorder and The Interbehaviorist. He is currently the Review Editor for the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, president and founder of ABAI’s Special Interest Group for the History of Behavior Analysis, and director and founder of ABSC’s Center for the History of Behavior Analysis. He is a Fellow of ABAI, the Association for Psychological Science, and APA Divisions 25 and 26. In August 2025, he received Division 26’s Career Achievement Award.
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