Morgan Forde

Morgan Forde is a fifth-year PhD candidate in Urban Planning and splits her time between Washington DC and Cambridge. She is currently a 2025-2026 Totman Fellow (Black Washington) at the DC History Center, and her work has been supported by the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative and the Pforzheimer Fellowship with Harvard University Libraries. Her dissertation focuses on Black American urban history in the 20th century with a particular focus on Resurrection City, a project led by the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, DC in the summer of 1968. 

Morgan holds an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Studies with distinction from the University of Cambridge and a bachelor’s degree in International Politics and Security Studies from Georgetown University. Formerly a journalist and editor, her work has been featured by: the Getty Conservation Institute, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Mic, Ploughshares, Popular Mechanics, the United Nations Foundation, and elsewhere.