Frederick Staidum Jr.

Fields 
Digital Humanities; African American and African Diasporic Literatures; Gender and Queer Studies; Critical Theory; Cultural Studies; Ethnic Studies 

Research Interests 
Theories of race, sex, and gender in 18th- and 19th-century Atlantic writing and art; Race, coloniality, and modernity; Geography and the spatialization of difference; Using digital spatial methods to visualize and interpret relationships amongst space, enslavement, and tourism 

CTSDH Projects 
Mapping Modernity’s Slavery: Leisure and Racial Spectacle in Antebellum New Orleans 

Relevant Publications 
“Touring Modernity’s Slavery: An Autoethnographic Digital Mapping of Leisure and Racial Spectacle in Antebellum New Orleans.” Space and Place in Africana/Black Studies. Eds. Angel David Nieves and Kim Gallon. (University of Georgia Press).