Rebecca Sheehan

I am a cultural historical geography, specializing in critically examining public spaces. My scholarship is based in qualitative inquiry and informed by a range of theoretical perspectives including, for example, feminism (especially performativity and intersectionality), actor network theory, and critical race theory. Most of my work has centered on New Orleans’s public spaces, where I have explored, for example, identity, inclusion and exclusion, homelessness, and increasingly memorialization, particularly concerning impacts and opportunities related to minority and underrepresented groups.

Recently, I have examined Confederate monument removal as well as ideas of regenerative memorialization. I will expand this research trajectory, concerning memory-work, in the U.S. South, particularly relating to regenerative memorialization, gender, and public spaces.