Morgan P. Vickers is an Assistant Professor of Race/Racialization in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington. They hold affiliate faculty appointments with the Department of Geography (beginning AY 25-26), the Center for the Study of Demography and Ecology, and the Center for Environmental Politics 

They 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 socially defined using the same language of damnation, pestilence, and threat in order to materially destroy both through legal and extralegal maneuvers.