Michael Morris

Michael Morris has served as the director of the Two Mississippi Museums-Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum-since 2023. He previously served in several roles during his ten years at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Morris earned his bachelor's degree in history and master's degree in political science from Jackson State University, where he worked at the Margaret Walker Center and Fannie Lou Hamer Institute on Citizenship and Democracy. Morris was the Mississippi archivist for the Our Story, Our Terms civil rights project at Duke University.

Morris has completed several supervisory courses at the Mississippi State Personnel Board. He participated in the Stennis Institute's State Executive Development Institute program at Mississippi State University. He was a member of the city of Jackson's bicentennial commission in 2022 and has written markers for the Mississippi Freedom Trail. He currently serves on the advisory board of the Mississippi Book Festival and the executive committee of the National Folk Festival. In March 2026, Morris was elected secretary-treasurer of the Mississippi Historical Society and serves as the managing editor of the Journal of Mississippi History.