Morgan P. Vickers

Research Areas

Interests

drowned towns, Black ecologies and geographies, New Deal infrastructure, the U.S. South, environmental history, and dispossession

Contact Information

morgan-vickers@berkeley.edu

Links

Website

Biography

Morgan P. Vickers (they/them) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. Their current work focuses on drowned towns of the Santee-Cooper Project in South Carolina, wherein 901 families were displaced in the name of New Deal “progress.” Morgan's work highlights New Deal infrastructures, transformed ecologies (notably, swamplands), and dispossessed (racialized) populations in order to challenge myths of universal progress and narratives of purportedly moral geographies. Thematically, Morgan’s work contemplates Black ecologies, placemaking, federal dam and reservoir projects, racial capitalism, moral geographies, community memory studies, and questions of belonging.

Education

2018, B.A., American Studies and Communication Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a minor in Creative Non-Fiction Writing

Teaching Experence

Defiant Women: Gender, Power and Violence in American History (Dr. Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers)
Graduate Student Reader at The University of California, Berkeley — Fall 2021

Bl.A.ck Arcadia (Kahlil Joseph & Madebo Fatunde)
Guest Critic at Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) — April 2021

Race, Space, and Inequality (Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis)
Graduate Student Reader atThe University of California, Berkeley — Spring 2020

Research Assistantships

Public Histories/Public Futures (Susan Moffat, Global Urban Humanities)
Graduate Student Researcher at The University of California, Berkeley — June 2020 - Present

Community Histories Workshop (Dr. Robert Allen)
Undergraduate Student Researcher at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC — 2016 - 2018

A Red Record: Revealing lynching sites in North Carolina and South Carolina (Dr. Seth Kotch)
Undergraduate Student Researcher at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC — 2016 - 2018