Amani C. Morrison, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of African American Literature and Culture in Georgetown University’s English Department and researches Black engagements with place and property through a cultural and historical lens. Her book, A Kitchenette to Fit Your Needs: Housing Chicago’s Great Migration (NYU Press 2026), is the first cultural history of Chicago's mid-twentieth-century kitchenette apartments. The Chicago Kitchenette Archive is a digital archive and mapping project that brings together the rich but scattered sources and data points on Chicago’s kitchenette apartments of the 1930s to 1950s for historical and geographical analysis.
