Fredericks’s research has won major funding support from the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright-Hays and the National Science Foundation. She has edited two books with Mamadou Diouf: the first, Les Arts de la Citoyenneté au Sénégal: Espaces Contestés et Civilités Urbaines , about Senegalese cities, was published in July 2013; the second The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities: Infrastructures and Spaces of Belonging, about cities across Africa, will be published in December 2014. Currently, she is completing a manuscript on the cultural politics of garbage collection in Dakar titled Trash Matters: Infrastructures and Arts of Citizenship in Dakar, Senegal. In 2014, she led a group of Gallatin students on a travel course to Dakar.