Morgan P. Vickers (they/them/theirs)

Morgan P. Vickers is an Assistant Professor of Race/Racialization in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington. They are also an affiliate faculty member with the Center for the Study of Demography and Ecology and the Center for Environmental Politics. 

Vickers received their Ph.D. from the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. Their research illuminates racialized ecologies, 20th-century infrastructure projects, the social construction of race, and eco-social repair. They are centrally concerned with how racialized populations and their environments have been historically defined using the same language of damnation, pestilence, and threat in order to destroy both through legal and extralegal maneuvers.

Vickers is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the social, racial, and legal construction and transformation of swamplands in the American South. It aims to illuminate how centuries of environmental and racial myths are legitimized through American policy measures and infrastructural development projects that were designed to facilitate the simultaneous erasure of undesirable people and unruly ecologies. Vickers has published articles related to these themes in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers and The Arrow Journal.