Morgan Newman

(she/her)

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About

Morgan Newman is a PhD student in the Department of Architecture and is advised by Dr. Nida Rehman. She graduated with her bachelor’s degree in Public Policy and Sociology from Vanderbilt University in 2019 and her master’s degree in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon in 2021. Her doctoral research works at the intersection of spatial and quantitative analysis, and architectural history to explore issues of racial and environmental injustice in the United States. Currently, her research examines and contextualizes how emerging practices in architecture and reparative design can be implemented in rural landscapes to create more sustainable and ecologically equitable communities in the Black Belt region of Alabama.