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Morgan P. Vickers is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, and an incoming Assistant Professor of Race/Racialization in the Department of Law, Societies & Justice at the University of Washington. Vickers researches racialized ecologies, 20th-century infrastructure projects, and eco-social repair. Their current project illuminates swampland destruction, Black dispossession, and hydroelectric dams in New Deal South Carolina.

Morgan received their B.A. in American Studies, Communication Studies, and Non-Fiction Writing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Morgan is currently a Content Editor for Environmental History Now and a Black Geographies Fellow in the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley. They previously worked with Roadtrippers Magazine, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Community Histories Workshop, A Red Record, The Association of Recovery in Higher Education, and the Future Histories Lab. They currently serve as the Graduate Student Representative for the Landscape Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers.

✉ morgan-vickers@berkeley.edu