Education
Morone graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College in 1973, where he studied under Professor Murray Dry, and then attended graduate school at the University of Chicago, where he completed an Master of Arts in 1976 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in political science in 1982.
Career
His doctoral dissertation examined "The dilemma of citizen action: representation and bureaucracy in local health politics." Morone has taught at Brown University since 1982 and is a professor of political science and urban studies. He has also been a visiting professor at Yale University, the University of Bremen, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Morone"s book Hellfire Nation (2003) is nonfiction.
Morone edited the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law from 1989 to He was president of the Politics and History Section of APSA for 1999–2000 and of the New England Political Science Association for 2002-2003.
Along with Rogan Kersh, Morone completed a college textbook on American government titled "By the People" with Oxford University Press in.