Morgan is a writer, editor, and researcher who works at the intersection of narrative development and applied research.

Morgan was born in Philadelphia, PA with hundreds-year-old family roots in Palmyra, NJ and Cheswold, DE. After graduating from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in Clinical Psychology and Gender and Sexuality Studies, Morgan worked in community mental health settings in Philadelphia. In 2022, they earned their PhD in History and Graduate Certificate in Native American and Indigenous Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where they wrote about Indigenous gathering practices in 20th Century Philadelphia and argued these community efforts challenged both the dominant view that Indigenous people did not live in the city and that despite the un-recognition of the Lenape in Pennsylvania, Lenape people remained critical fixtures in the city.

Morgan has worked in a variety of sectors including higher education, nonprofits, arts magazines, and public history. Across all roles, Morgan has brought both an editorial eye to narrative development and interdisciplinary research skills that allows them to support a range of projects. They have expertise in analytical writing, research methods, content editing, project management, and cross-sector communications.

In addition to outlets such as WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly and LLIDS: Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies, Morgan’s work has been featured in Eunoia Review, Exposition Review, PACDC, The Journal for the History of Ideas Blog, NPR-affiliate WHYY’s The Why, and other public outlets (Media). They have received an American Council of Learned Societies Leading Edge Fellowship, a 2019 Humanities Research Institute Fellowship, the 2018 Andrew W. Mellon Native American Scholars Initiative Fellowship, and multiple teaching and advising awards from UIUC and Harvard.

Indiscriminate about genre, Morgan is interested in telling stories that reveal the fullness of the world and the ways we are connected. Drawing on experience across higher education, nonprofit research and communications, publishing, and community-based projects, Morgan examines the relationship between form and story: How can we make different experiences more visible? How do we help people understand an organization’s impact? How do we support future thinkers and idea generators? How do we better teach people about the world? 

Morgan is currently contributing editor at the Boston Art Review. In addition to writing short fiction and poetry, Morgan is editing their first novel, a queer literary fiction coming-of-age, and also at work on their second novel. They live in Cambridge, MA.