She is a social and cultural historian of the U.S. in the 19th and 20th centuries, with specialties that include the American South, African American history, and the history of public memory. Reiko has published articles in scholarly journals about the civil right movement, community policing, and prisoners’ rights, she also writes about and teaches in prisons. She is the author of Designing Dixie: Tourism, Memory, and Urban Space in the New South (2015, University of Virginia Press).