[2][3] Morris grew up in Canada and spent her childhood in Kimberley, British Columbia and Vancouver.
[5] Morris' early work was centered on the history of modernity and mass media in Southeast Asia, with a focus on Thailand.
[5] For the past twenty years, her work has focused on exploring the lives of mining communities in Southern Africa.
She made the documentary We are Zama Zama that shed light on the lives of South Africa's migrant mining workers excavating in the country's abandoned gold mines.
[7][8][9] She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022, and her proposed topic is a multi-genre book that will reflect on "the lived experience of natural resource extractionism.