She earned her PhD in Sociology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research. Freeman writes about memory, nostalgia, utopia, space/place, atomic & nuclear culture, and sometimes art. She is the author of ‘Longing for the Bomb: Oak Ridge and Atomic Nostalgia’ (UNC Press, 2015) and editor of the forthcoming edited collection ‘The Bohemian South’ (UNC Press 2017). Freeman is now working on a manuscript tentatively titled ‘Atomic Childhood around 1980’. Atomic Childhood is written in the form of sociological poetry, an example of Freeman’s interest in the connections between sociology and art, sociology as an art form, ethnographic surrealism and superrealism, fictocriticism, ethnofiction, and other cyborg and hybrid forms of art and social science. website