Ph.D. Student
Morgan P. Vickers (they/them) is a second-year Ph.D. student 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.” Thematically, Morgan’s work contemplates Black geographies and placemaking, federal dam and reservoir projects, affect theory, community memory studies, and questions of belonging.
Education
BA The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Majors: American Studies & Communication Studies; Minor: Creative Non-Fiction Writing (2018)
Conferences and Invited Presentations
Participant and Presenter, “‘Pushing Back the Darkness’: Black Dispossession and White Progress in the Santee Cooper Project,” Dispossession in Motion Workshop, The University of California, Berkeley, April 2020 (Conference Canceled due to Covid-19).
Moderator, “Radical Homemaking,” The Berkeley Black Geographies Symposium, The University of California, Berkeley, March 2020.
Panelist, “Historians and Developers, Pitfalls and Potential,” National Humanities Conference, New Orleans, November 2018.
Panelist, “Kenan Institute for Ethics Scholar Symposium in Human Rights, Ethics, and International Politics,” Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, April 2018.
Participant & Researcher, “2017 Lynching in the American South Digital Conference,” A Red Record Conference, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, June 2017.
Teaching
Race, Space, and Inequality (Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis)
Graduate Student Reader at The 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
Select Awards, Grants, Fellowships
The University of California, Berkeley
The Wilson Special Collections Library Summer Visiting Research Fellowship | Summer 2020
Ellison Durant Smith Research Award | Summer 2020
Berkeley Chancellor’s Fellowship for Graduate Study | Fall 2019 - Present
Mildred Colodny Diversity Scholarship for Graduate Study in Historic Preservation | Fall 2019 - Spring 2021
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The New Hope Fellowship for Digital Historical Research | Summer 2018
Gilder Lehrman History Scholar Award | June 2018
VIMY Global Team Award (Declined) | May 2018
Best Poster Certificate: 19th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research | April 2018
Peter C. Baxter Memorial Prize Award | 2018 Chancellor’s Awards
William Stevens Powell Award | 2018 Chancellor’s Awards
William W. and Ida W. Taylor and James S. Gold Faculty-Mentored Research Fellowship | Summer 2017
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) | Summer 2017
Hayden B. Renwick Academic Achievement Award | 2014 – 2018