Morgan Buck

Morgan Buck is a PhD candidate in Geography at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her doctoral research investigates the gendered history of public housing in Johannesburg between 1930 and 1994. Drawing mainly on Black feminist and postcolonial theory, she attends specifically to how material and discursive struggles around family housing contributed to unsettling and re-articulating racialized constructions of women, family, and urban space. This research speaks to a broader academic and political interest in repositioning gender alongside race as central the production of cultural landscapes, and in foregrounding women’s histories and political subjectivities in the study of state formation. Her current research interests, combined with her background in political economy and rural sociology, inform her teaching practice in the Urban Studies and Urban Affairs and Planning departments at Queens College and Hunter College.