JORDAN BRASHER

Research Fellow, he/him/his

Jordan Brasher, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Columbus State University (Columbus, Georgia, USA) and an affiliated faculty in the Columbus Community Geography Center. His research explores the politics of remembering slavery and the Confederacy at heritage tourism sites in the Americas. His dissertation examined the transnational political dimensions and racialized controversies around commemorating the Confederacy in Santa Bárbara d’Oeste, São Paulo, Brazil. Jordan takes a publicly engaged approach to his research and writing, which have appeared in outlets like The Conversation (US), USA Today, The Washington Post, The Activist History Review, The Tennessean, Papers in Applied Geography, Social & Cultural Geography, and FOCUS on Geography.

Expertise: Racism & Inequality, Plantations, Enslavement & Heritage Tourism, Cultural Geography, Settler Colonialism, Critical Memory Studies

Email: brasher_jordan@columbusstate.edu

Select Publications

Brasher, J.P. (2021). Creating 'Confederate pioneers': a spatial narrative analysis of race, settler colonialism, and heritage tourism at the Museu da Imigração, Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, São Paulo. Journal of Heritage Tourism 16(1): 20-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2020.1768262.

Brasher, J.P., D.H. Alderman, and A. Subanthore. (2020). Was Tulsa's Brady Street really renamed? Racial (in)justice, memory-work, and neoliberalism's mandate of least disruption. Social & Cultural Geography 21(9): 1223-1244. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2018.1550580.

The Confederate battle flag, which rioters flew inside the US Capitol, has long been a symbol of white insurrection.” The Conversation (US). January 14, 2021.

Confederate flags fly worldwide, igniting social tensions and inflaming historic traumas.” The Conversation (US). July 17, 2020.

#ChangetheDamnName: MTSU Student Activism Against Forrest Hall, White Supremacy, and a Reparative Approach to Heritage Preservation.” The Activist History Review. November 22, 2019.