Lindsey A. Freeman, PhD in Sociology & Historical Studies. Freeman is the author of This Atom Bomb in Me (Redwood Press/Stanford University Press), Longing for the Bomb: Oak Ridge and Atomic Nostalgia (UNC Press), and Running (forthcoming from Duke University Press, 2023)

Dr. Freeman is currently working on three research projects.

• Fieldwork. A project on women鈥檚 soccer focusing on theorizing the tender moments of the game that often go unnoticed alongside the overt joys and crushing disappointments of wins and losses that centers on the affects, gestures, and stated experiences of queer, trans, and gender non-conforming coaches, players, and fans.
• The Tiny Uncanny: 99 Theses on Miniature
• For the cosmos to bore us. An ethnography of rain and Vancouver.

Professor Freeman is also an Associate Member of the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women鈥檚 Studies at 丁香园AV and an Affiliated Scholar, Associated Researcher with Espaces et Soci茅t茅s (ESO), Universit茅 de Caen, Normandie, France.

PhD (Sociology & Historical Studies), The New School for Social Research, New York, NY
MA (Sociology), The New School for Social Research, New York, NY
BA (Sociology & Government), Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC

Affect theory, queer theory, social theory, atomic and nuclear cultures, memory, poetics, sports, and writing.

Books

• , Duke University Press, 2023.
• , Redwood Press/Stanford University Press, 2019.
• . Editor, co-editor Shawn Bingham, The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
• , The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• 鈥淔or the cosmos to bore us.鈥� New Writing. Online first, April 2019
• 鈥淐atastrophic Snow Globes as Oneiric and Mnemonic Gadgets.鈥� Space and Culture. 19(2) May 2016, 116-126. 
• 鈥淎tomic Childhood around 1980.鈥� Memory Studies 9.1 (Jan 2016): 75 鈥� 84.
• 鈥淢emory | Materiality | Sensuality鈥� Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, & Rachel Daniel. Memory Studies 9.1 (Jan 2016): 3 鈥� 12.
• 鈥淪creen Memory,鈥� Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, & Laliv Melamed, in the International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. (March 2013).
• Special issue on 鈥淪creen Memory鈥� in the International Journal of Politics, Culture & Society. Papers selected, edited, and introduction written for the special issue along with Benjamin Nienass & Laliv Melamed (March 2013).
• 鈥淚ntroduction: Is an Interdisciplinary Field of Memory Studies Possible?鈥� with Adam Brown, Yifat Gutman, Amy Sodaro, & Alin Coman in International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society (2009): 117-124.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

• 鈥淛ames Agee and the Southern Superreal,鈥� in The Bohemian South, The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
• 鈥淭he Manhattan Project Time Machine: Atomic Tourism in Oak Ridge, Tennessee鈥� in Death Tourism: Disaster Sites as Recreational Landscape. Ed. Brigitte Sion. Seagull Books, 2014.
• 鈥淎 Plutonium Tourism Ode: The Rocky Flats Cold War Museum鈥� in Moral Encounters ofTourism. Eds. Mary Mostafanezhad & Kevin Hannam. Ashgate, 2014.
• 鈥淢useums of Experience: The Artist as Curator of Memory & Loss鈥� in Art Reflects Life: The Artist as Observer and Social Critic. Ed. Shawn Bingham. Lexington Books, 2012.
• 鈥淗appy Memories under the Mushroom Cloud: Utopia and Memory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee鈥� in Memory and the Future: Transnational Politics, Ethics, and Society. Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2010.