Morgan Forde

Morgan Forde

Graduate Student Associate

Ph.D. Candidate in Architecture and Urban Planning, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Morgan Forde is a PhD student at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and holds an M.Phil. in architecture and urban studies from the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the history of Black-founded communities in the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular interest in the intellectual and urban morphological synergies developed between Afro-socialists in the United States, the Caribbean, and the Soviet Union. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Popular Mechanics, and Mic. In 2023, she was a contributor to the Davis Center's "Shifting Ground" exhibition.