About

Dr. Natasha C. Pratt-Harris Bio-Sketch 

Natasha C. Pratt-Harris is a Full Tenured Professor and past Coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program and current Director of the Graduate Program in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and (Criminology & Criminal Justice) in the College of Liberal Arts at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD USA. She directs the Sociology Masters program and the new Applied Sociology and Social Justice PhD Program, of which she helped to launch. She was appointed to Morgan’s School of Social Work (split time) for the newly established Interdisciplinary Urban Crime Center. She is also a trained statistician and methodologist. Dr. Pratt-Harris has co-taught a Police and Society course based on a Policing Inside-Out Model (Dr. Muhammad Experience) where HBCU students, community members, and law enforcement are enrolled for 15 weeks to collectively address police-community relations. She is the Principal Investigator for the Community’s Experiences and Perceptions of the Baltimore City Police Department Survey, as part of the BPD Consent Decree. She leads (as a PI) a Morgan State University research team that was awarded a National Science Foundation Grant to Build and Broaden Safe and Strong Communities in Baltimore City with collaborations with members of the Baltimore city community, the Baltimore City Police Department, faith-based organizations, and West Virginia University. She is the editor and contributing author for the textbook Why the Police Should Be Trained by Black People (published April 26, 2022 – Taylor and Francis Routledge Publishing) where she collaborated with more than thirty book contributors to address policing, crime, and community relations. Dr. Pratt-Harris has an earned Sociology PhD from Howard University. She is a product of K-12 public education in Baltimore City (a proud Western Dove) and earned degrees in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland College Park and the University of Baltimore. She is of Jamaican (mother) and Bahamian (father) heritage where she grew up visiting and continues to visit family in the Caribbean/ West Indies. She resides in Baltimore, MD with her husband, grade school daughter, and has two adult daughters (both past SGA Presidents of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore), one who earned her Bachelor’s of Science degree in Criminal Justice Spring 2024 and is a current masters of International Relations Masters student and the eldest who is a masters level criminologist and current doctoral student. She is the proud grandmother of her first “son”.  www.AHarrisThought.com